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  1. Specimen card from the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

    The Oval Office meets the Castle: Presidents at the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 8, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The Smithsonian Castle sits just over a mile away from Washington D.C.’s most notable address,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are more than just a short walk away from the White House, however—we are directly tied to it and its occupants. Not only does the Smithsonian collect the history of United States Presidents (including, yes, Lincoln’s top hat and even the hair of a few

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  3. Portrait headshot of Gurian.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Elaine Heumann Gurian

    • Date: July 1, 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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  5. DArcInfo (Digital Archive Information System) provides details about the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ born-digital collections. img src: 202005_DArcinfo.jpg

    The Work Continues While We Are Away

    • Date: May 21, 2020
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Smithsonian archivists are reviewing challenges with sharing born-digital collections.

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    What should “reality” look like?

    • Date: April 6, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Untitled, 2007, © 2007 Jos Stam"][/caption] In selecting participants for click! photography changes everything, one of the issues I wanted to explore was, “Just how photographic do the images of ‘reality’ need to be?” Many people assume that the quantity and level of detail captured in a photographic image—what some

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    “Do Pandas Affect Everyone This Way?”: Celebrating 50 Years of Giant Pandas at the National Zoo

    • Date: April 14, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This year marks the 50th anniversary since the arrival of giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the National Zoo. To celebrate, we’re highlighting some giant panda records at the Archives.

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    Link Love: 4/22/2011

    • Date: April 22, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="215" caption="Belle Grove, rear, White Castle vic., Iberville Parish, Louisiana, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1938, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print."][/caption] Oooo—a pretty resource I’ve not come across before. The Carnegie Survey of the Architecture

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  13. Marquis smiles at the camera. She is wearing a white turtleneck and heart-shaped earrings.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anne-Louise Marquis

    • Date: June 22, 2022
    • 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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    Documenting the Smithsonian’s Pandemic Response

    • Date: March 16, 2021
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  17. This satellite image was captured by DigitalGlobe’s GeoEye-1 satellite on October 6, 2014. Credit: Portrait by artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada, commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery; Satellite image collected by DigitalGlobe.

    Link Love: 10/24/2014

    • Date: October 24, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers: Smithsonian Volunteers

    • Date: April 19, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12022,size=250,left]Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since its earliest years. The Institution has always been “dependent on the kindness of strangers.” Volunteers make tremendous contributions to Smithsonian operations every day in virtually every corner of the globe. The Smithsonian's paid staff of some 6,000 employees is

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    New Field Book Sets on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons

    • Date: August 24, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Fame ... By Any Other Name

    • Date: March 20, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.

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