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    A Quirk, a Chase and the Power of a Crowd

    • Date: March 13, 2014
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.

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    MayDay as Earth Day

    • Date: April 30, 2020
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: As I write this crossover Preservation Week/MayDay post so close to Earth Day 2020 (the fiftieth anniversary), stunning news continues to break across the globe due to the coronavirus. Shining through the fog of worry, there have been surprising gains in a period of forced inactivity due to reduced emissions, such as record-breaking solar energy capture in Germany, and cleaner

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  5. A Suffrage Protest at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 4, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: In 1917, police detectives arrested two suffragists suspected of planning a pro-suffrage demonstration at the United States National Museum.

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  7. 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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  9. Promotional black and white photograph of The Beatles, c. 1964, as seen in even, non-raking visible light. Courtesy of E. Keats Webb, Museum Conservation Institute. Accession 2014.02 - Harry Lynn Collection, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.

    But all I've got is a photograph . . . or an autograph?

    • Date: April 29, 2014
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Watch how we make invisible Beatles’ autographs visible with Reflectance Transform Imaging, a technique for forensic document examination.

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  11. A man and woman stands outdoors in a rocky area. Both are holding the golf clubs and the woman is preparing to take a swing.

    Margaret Sordahl, Collecting Flora and Fauna at a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Station

    • Date: December 2, 2021
    • Description: We’re taking a glimpse into the work and life of Margaret Sordahl and other women at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory stations around the world.

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  13. Gathering specimens in the field for the insect zoo at the National Museum of Natural History, August 8, 1972, by Harry Neufeld.

    Bug Hunting

    • Date: September 16, 2014
    • Description: In the early years of the National Museum of Natural History’s Insect Zoo, staff members, volunteers and their family ventured out to local field, streams and even monuments to collect specimens.

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    Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Smithsonian Transcription Center!

    • Date: March 9, 2021
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: Help us transcribe the records of groundbreaking Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake.

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  17. February 4, 1925 Letter Charles Doolittle Walcott to William Howard Taft, Record Unit 45 - Office of the Secretary, Records, 1890-1929, Smithsonian Institution Archive, neg. no. SIA2015-001132.

    Hoping it Will Help

    • Date: December 2, 2014
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: How one dollar launched a fundraising campaign in 1925.

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  19. Grayscale Postcard of the Smithsonian Institution Castle, February 13, 1905, Record Unit 95 - Photographic Collection, c. 1850s - , Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. nos. SIA2013-06633 and SIA2013-0664.

    New Year, New Postcard Exhibit

    • Date: January 28, 2014
    • Description: For the new year our “Greetings from the Smithsonian” postcard exhibit has a new look and updated content!

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  21. Blog Post

    The Saint Augustine Monster

    • Date: August 18, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: What was the Saint Augustine Monster? According to Wikipedia, it was a globster—“an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.” This great-grandaddy of globsters kept cryptozoologists speculating and scientists testing for a century—and a piece of it lives at the Smithsonian. The St. Augustine monster was discovered by two

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  23. Board of Regents minutes - First Annual Meeting, by Lisa Fthenakis, 2014, Record Unit 1 - Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents, Minutes, 1846- , Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Telegraphs, Controversy, and the Board of Regents

    • Date: December 11, 2014
    • Description: Board of Regents minutes might not sound exciting, but they have plenty of drama: including mudslinging over the telegraph’s invention.

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