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    1. Giant Panda researcher Devra Kleiman records Hsing-Hsing's vocalizations.

      The Archival Legacy of Devra Kleiman

      • Date: May 25, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    3. Visual Materials, 1987-2002, 1987, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA RS01183.

      Visual Materials, 1987-2002

      • Date: 1987 1987-2002
      • Creator: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Office of Public Affairs

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    5. Watson Davis’s handwritten notes on the day he first met John Thomas Scopes in June 1925. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Science Service: Up Close

      • Date: May 19, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a

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    7. Inappropriate Attachments: When Good Intentions Go Bad! (Gallery of Horrors Part II)

      • Date: November 28, 2012
      • Creator: Janelle Batkin-Hall
      • Description: A highlight of inappropriate paper attachments found in a Smithsonian Institution Archives collection.

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    9. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018

      • Date: December 27, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    11. Stereoview showing a piece of mummy cartonnage (wrappings) painted with hieroglyphics, from Saqqara, Egypt, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2018

      • Date: September 27, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this summer 2018 by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    13. Archival document held by weights with artist brush nearby.

      A Medal-y of Materials: Preserving a Small, yet Robust, Collection

      • Date: August 31, 2017
      • Description: As the Preservation Intern at the Archives this summer, my main project was part of a massive re-organization of the oversized map cases at the Archives. An introduction to that project can be found in blog posts by previous interns, Caitria Sunderland and Margaret Rose Hunt. However, when taking breaks from the cool climate of collections storage, I worked on rehousing the

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    15. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2019

      • Date: March 26, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers this winter.

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      Promotional and Advertising Materials, 1982-1985

      • Date: 1982 1982-1985
      • Creator: Smithsonian Magazine

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    19. Black and white image of African American woman holding her baby, looking out the window.

      Link Love: 4/13/2018

      • Date: April 13, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now

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    21. Visiting Schools Using RIF Materials

      Visiting Schools Using RIF Materials

      • Date: 1974
      • Creator: Unknown
      • Creator: Unknown

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    23. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2019

      • Date: December 26, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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