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    1. View of collections shelving at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      How I Spent My Summer: Interning as a Virtual Web Archivist

      • Date: August 4, 2022
      • Description: Virtually join along with me on my web and social media archiving adventure using web archiving services, such as Archive-It.

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    3. 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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    5. Opening reception for exhibit Sesame Street: The First 20 Years at National Museum of American History.

      Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? It's at the Smithsonian!

      • Date: June 1, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Take a trip back to Sesame Street and the Smithsonian's ten year exhibition about the show in 1979.

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    7. Two floppy disks labeled with the ZooArk info. One is from the rhino files and the other is from the tiger files.

      Where Will This Lead? Exhibits, Zoos and Video-dating

      • Date: January 14, 2020
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Investigating digital files from the 1980s turns up software that let people play matchmaker–for endangered species. Let’s see where this leads.

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    9. Dan Kimball adjusting the telescope at the Maria Mitchell Observatory prior to the eclipse.

      Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses

      • Date: August 22, 2017
      • Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.

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    11. An open book. Both pages have sketches of creatures on them, drawn between handwritten notes.

      Happy 2019! The Archives Takes a Look Back at a Busy 2018

      • Date: January 1, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Before the Archives gears up for new projects in 2019, we’re looking back at our accomplishments and highlights in 2018.

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    13. The Mystery of the Undated Postcards

      • Date: July 23, 2013
      • Description: Revamping our online postcard exhibit poses the challenge of dating unused postcards. Here’s how I have hunted down clues to solve the mystery!

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      Panoramic Panic! A Sticky Situation, Part 1

      • Date: July 29, 2010
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: This piece is part one in a series of posts about Smithsonian Institution Archives’ (SIA) paper conservator and interns working on stabilizing a 1921 panoramic photo of air mail pilots and crews that is being moved to the National Air and Space Museum’s (NASM) Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. You can see Part II here. In addition to being the Paper Conservator for the Smithsonian

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    17. Smithsonian Torch article about the formation of the SI Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee, March 1992. Len Hirsch is pictured, right.

      Smithsonian GLOBE: A History

      • Date: June 6, 2017
      • Description: In celebration of Pride 2017, a look back at the history of the Smithsonian GLOBE (Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Employees) organization.

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    19. Three men in suits standing behind a microphone and in front of a wall of speakers and meters.

      The World Is Yours: Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress

      • Date: August 6, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Listen to reenactments of two articles that were published in the 1936 Smithsonian Annual Report as broadcast during The World Is Yours episode “Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress.”

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      Looking Smithson’s Gift Horse in the Mouth

      • Date: July 28, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Today, James Smithson’s bequest to found the Smithsonian is considered a wonderful event, but in 1835 when it was announced, many Americans responded negatively. Why did they look his gift horse in the mouth?

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      Link Love: 11/29/2013

      • Date: November 29, 2013
      • 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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