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  1. Color photo of three staff members standing in the collections processing lab

    Career advice from our Preservation Coordinator

    • Date: May 1, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: This is post is part of our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professional. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Smithsonian Institution Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Don’t be afraid to let us know who you might like to hear from next!What is preservation? This is a

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  3. Atatürk Bust, San Posta, 23 Temmuz 1931, SALT Research, https://www.flickr.com/photos/saltonline/14482745040/.

    You Asked, We Answered: 2014 Archives Facebook Q&A

    • Date: November 4, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On Monday, October 27th, four of our finest were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fourth year hosting this event and

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  5. Color photograph of a handheld field notebook opened, and displaying a sketch of a rural landscape.

    Exhibiting the Smithsonian Institution Archives: A Look Back

    • Date: May 15, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13754,size=400,center]When people think of a Smithsonian exhibit, they probably don’t think of one filled with documents from an archives! A piece of paper doesn’t grab your attention from across the room, as the Fénykövi elephant or Chuck Berry’s car do. But on closer inspection, handwritten scraps have fascinating stories to tell. They can be

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  7. Model of the Quadrangle Viewed from the Southwest, c. 1979.

    Queue the Quadrangle - South Mall Transformation

    • Date: November 20, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A look at the Quadrangle complex of the Smithsonian that encompasses the Enid Haupt Garden, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

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  9. black and white portrait of African American woman in front of painting

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sylvia H. Williams

    • Date: October 18, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: African art scholar Sylvia H. Williams, directed the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, 1983-1996, and was one of the few women, and the only African American woman, serving at the time as director of a major American museum. #Groundbreaker

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    Postcards on the Edge

    • Date: February 18, 2010
    • Description: One of the largest collections of real photo postcards at the Smithsonian can be found in the conveniently titled “post card collection” in the Eliot Elisofon Archives at the National Museum of African Art. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Madagascar - Le bel album venu de France, c. 1905, by Unknown photograher, Postcard, National Museum of African Art,

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  13. Kid-Folks Touching, by Joe Schwartz, 1940s

    Link Love: 7/22/16

    • Date: July 22, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Beautiful new publication, Picturing Children, challenging stereotypes about African American children. [via NY Times]Now THIS is a 360...of Apollo 11! [via Smithsonian Magazine]Why not go big? Check out the first 3-D print of a supernova! [via Chandra X-ray Observatory and Smithsonian 3D]Archivist resource alert! The Getty's updated Introduction to Metadata. [via the

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  15. Alexander Wetmore, 1910.

    A Wonderful Wetmore Adventure

    • Date: May 31, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Thanks to our volunteers who transcribed the entirety of the Alexander Wetmore photo album collection!

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    Color History with the Smithsonian Recap!

    • Date: April 5, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, over 30 volunteers showed up at the National Museum of the American Indian to write minority women into digital history during a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month. On the to-do list were artists, educators, activists, Smithsonian employees, the first Chinese-American female dentist, and the African-American woman who

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  19. An excerpt from He is a Negro Still, by Solomon G. Brown.

    "He is a Negro Still": The Poetry of Solomon Brown

    • Date: February 9, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: An excerpt from "He is a Negro Still," by Solomon G. Brown, the Smithsonian's first African American employee.

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  21. Black and white photo of 3 seated women and 1 man at reception holding plates and drinking Coca Cola.

    Link Love: 2/3/2017

    • Date: February 3, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The history behind the film, Hidden Figures, from Curator Paul Ceruzzi. [via National Air and Space Museum]Umbra Search African American History now has over 500,000 items from more than 1000 libraries, museums and archives. [via OCLC and University of Minnesota Libraries]A Twitter tribute to Holocaust victims who were turned away by the U.S. in 1939. [via Atlantic]Library of

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Margaret A. Santiago

    • Date: June 10, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series, titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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