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  1. A screenshot of the Archives' Collections Search

    Highlighting Reference Services on the New Archives Website

    • Date: September 27, 2011
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    What price fame?

    • Date: August 5, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Greta Garbo, by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1939, National Portrait Gallery, © Estate of Clarence Sinclair Bull"][/caption] Annie Leibovitz isn’t the first celebrity photographer to become as famous as the subjects she shoots (think Matthew Brady, Edward Steichen, and Richard Avedon, to name just a few).  But in the last few

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  5. Link Love: 12/14/2012

    • Date: December 14, 2012
    • 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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    Link Love: 9/3/2010

    • Date: September 3, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="190" caption="Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., NASA flight surgeon William Douglas and equipment specialist Joseph W. Schmidt leave crew quarters prior to the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, February 1962, NASA on the Commons."][/caption] NASA has joined the Flickr Commons! Go and check out some of their historical images. Our readers and Flickr

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  9. Gone in a Flash

    • Date: February 9, 2021
    • Description: The end of Adobe Flash Player support means challenges in preserving older websites and online games.

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  11. S. Dillon Ripley in pram with dog, c. 1914, photographer unknown, photographic print, Accession 93-105 - S. Dillon Ripley Papers, 1950-1989, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2013-10944.

    Happy 100th Birthday, S. Dillon Ripley

    • Date: September 20, 2013
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Celebrate the life of the eighth Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, who was born on September 20, 1913, 100 years ago today!

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  13. B&W photo of interior with fireplace, a portrait of a woman on an easel, and highly ornate wood furniture.

    Studios and Cottages of a D.C. Socialite

    • Date: December 5, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On December 5, 1961, the Smithsonian announced the gift of the Barney House Studio. We have written previously about Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931); artist, actor, playwright, and Washington D.C. socialite at The Bigger Picture. Barney donated her artwork and her D.C. residence which became part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. In 1999, however, the house

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  15. Introducing Here At The Smithsonian

    • Date: December 29, 2020
    • Description: We are starting a new monthly blog series featuring episodes of Here At The Smithsonian.

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  17. Installation of a restored segregation-era railway car, circa 1918 in the National Museum of African American History and Culture, November 17, 2013. Courtesy of NMAAHC.

    National Museum of African American History and Culture - Happy 10th Anniversary!

    • Date: December 16, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Take a moment to celebrate the 10th anniversary of legislation that created the National Museum of African American History and Culture!

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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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  21. Staff of the Bureau of International Exchanges, 1891.

    The Poetry of Solomon Brown

    • Date: April 19, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: We celebrate National Poetry Month with a look at one of the Smithsonian’s resident poets, Solomon G. Brown.

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  23. I Am My Own Commodity

    • Date: March 24, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: While the economy may be perking up, the recession we’re still climbing out of has made one thing clear; if you need to earn a living, you’ve got to think entrepreneurially. Read enough success stories about former executives who’ve become cupcake moguls and a path becomes clear: take the dreams and skills you have, along with whatever compelling back story you can point to

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