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  1. Colored sketch of a Discodoris boholiensis, which looks like a sea slug.

    Link Love: 10/30/2020

    • Date: October 30, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  3. Black-and-white close-up photograph of Elizabeth Broun.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Elizabeth Broun

    • Date: December 18, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, 1989–2016, oversaw major renovations, welcomed groundbreaking exhibitions, and diversified the museum’s collections. She served as the museum’s Chief Curator and Assistant Director, 1983–88. #Groundbreaker

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  5. Construction of Angelica Van Buren Mannequin for First Ladies Hall Exhibition

    Sneak Peek 6/18/2018

    • Date: June 18, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Construction of Angelica Van Buren mannequin for First Ladies Hall exhibition at National Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History, November 1972, SIA Acc. 11-009, 73-1221-25A.

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  7. Letter from S. M. Huddleson, M.D. to Mr. J. Bundy, Superintendant of the Freer Gallery of Art. Dated February 9, 1924. Accession 02-027: Freer Gallery of Art Superintendent of Construction, Correspondence, 1913-1936, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image no. SIA2015-006882.

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Odd Job Requests

    • Date: June 2, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Miscellaneous Adventures - Odd Job Requests at the Freer Gallery of Art.

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  9. Upright cardboard tube with a label sitting next to a wax cylinder lying on its side.

    Link Love: 11/8/2019

    • Date: November 8, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  11. Salvador Dali, New York, 1947, by Irving Penn, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist. Copyright © The Irving Penn Foundation.

    Link Love: 7/10/2015

    • Date: July 10, 2015
    • 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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  13. Girl smiling with bow in hair sitting next to Helen Keller who has her arm around her and is smiling

    Link Love: 6/22/2018

    • Date: June 22, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The American Foundation for the Blind launched the Helen Keller Archive, the world's first fully accessible digital archive comprised of more than 160,000 artifacts. [via PR Newswire]Ahead of his major retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Trevor Paglen shares his views on the social and political implication of surveillance systems and artificial

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  15. Robert E. Sheldon aka “The Band Man” Works on a Composition for the French Horn

    Sneak Peek 2/11/2019

    • Date: February 11, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Robert E. Sheldon aka “The Band Man,” museum specialist in the Division of Musical Instruments at National Museum of History and Technology, now known as National Museum of American History, works on a composition for the french horn, 79-5900-32.

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  17. Blog Post

    This Side of Paradise

    • Date: July 31, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Group of Young Women in Costume During Arrival Reception For Tourists Near Plane at Airport, by Gerald James Holton, 1968, National Museum of Natural History, National Anthropological Archives."][/caption] I came across these photos of tourists on Easter Island on our site and their presence has kind of baffled me.

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  19. Link Love: 8/07/2020

    • Date: August 7, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  21. Tojin ja-odori no zu / Chinese dragon dance, [between 1850-1900], Chadbourne Collection of Japanese Prints, Library of Congress [LC-USZC4-10363].

    Link Love: 6/23/2017

    • Date: June 23, 2017
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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  23. Lisa Fthenakis, Program Assistant, Institution History Division, 2015, by Mitch Toda.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: July 16, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Continuing our series on introducing new staff, I'd like to welcome our new Program Assistant for our Institution History Division, Lisa Fthenakis.

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