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  1. Web Archiving Update

    • Date: August 6, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A progress report on the Archives' web archiving effort since subscribing to Archive-It.

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    What Smithsonian Animals Think of National Hug Day

    • Date: January 21, 2014
    • Description: Today is National Hug day! If you are feeling a little hug deprived don’t worry, we have scoured our collections to find you the best image of animals embracing the day.

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    Happy Flag Day!

    • Date: June 14, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as

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  7. Here At The Smithsonian: Celebrating Earth Optimism with Some Community Science

    • Date: April 27, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Since April is both Earth Month and Citizen Science Month, we’re highlighting two clips that make us optimistic for the future.

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    Link Love: 11/19/2010

    • Date: November 19, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Ever heard of The Impossible Project? When Polaroid announced they would stop production of instant film, these folks saved the last Polaroid production plant in the Netherlands, and started to develop new instant film with a small team of former Polaroid employees. Check out some shots of Smithsonian museums taken by Aaron Dunn and created with the fruits of their labor. What

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    New Commons Photos: The Destiny of a Galaxy

    • Date: August 11, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: In the past week, a series of six more images from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Chandra X-ray team were uploaded to the Flickr Commons. Incidentally, they are all images of supernovas and black holes. Visualizing black holes is a challenge (at least for me) as the term conjures up images in my own head of silent, black infinity. But luckily for us (and as you

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  13. Science Service biology editor Frank Thone (1891-1949), mid-1940s, by Fremont Davis. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. SIA2009-4197.

    Science Service, Up Close: Laughing All the Way

    • Date: April 1, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Humor and its manifestation at Science Service.

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    Finding the Thousand Words Behind the Picture

    • Date: March 31, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: You know the old cliché—“A picture is worth a thousand words.” But is it true in every case? A simple portrait from 60 years ago may give some clues to period hairstyle and dress, but none to where the photo was taken or why the person was noteworthy. Sources now available on the internet, such as the Historic newspaper database, Proquest, and even YouTube—give Smithsonian

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    Exploring the National Parks

    • Date: August 1, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: August is National Parks Month, but the Smithsonian has celebrated the National Park Service for decades! Enjoy a selection of national parks images from the Archives' collection.

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  19. Black and white portrait of a man.

    Robert Kennicott and the Western Union Telegraph Expedition

    • Date: September 21, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14715,size=250,left] By now you have probably heard of Robert Kennicott, either because of his involvement with the Megatherium Club, or because of the article and blog post on his death that was published last year. I, however, tend to associate him with the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, a collecting mission to Alaska that proved to be his last.

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  21. Two photographs of a man wearing a fur coat. The hood is on in the left photo.

    Smithsonian Collections, But Make It Fashion: An Archival Mystery Solved

    • Date: June 30, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: For Social Media Day, we’re recapping how a Facebook follower solved an archival mystery by giving a name to our most popular “unidentified male model.”

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    Cabinet of Curiosities

    • Date: September 7, 2010
    • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_8083" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="The mysterious cabinet of curiosities with assorted film cameras perched on top, 2010, by Michael Barnes, SIA."][/caption] Last fall a piece of furniture showed up in the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) reception area. Aside from a few nicks, it is a large, handsome cabinet with drawers and double

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