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    1. Vertically oriented poster of abstract fabric in blue, orange, pink, and white.

      A Look into NCFA Exhibition Posters

      • Date: October 24, 2017
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has undergone many name changes over the years. One of these – the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) – was in use from 1937 to 1980. During this time, the NCFA underwent several exciting changes. After years of being housed in multiple locations and several failed attempts to build a permanent building, the collection moved to

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    3. Putting It All Together: The Assembly and Rehousing of Glass Plate Negatives

      • Date: August 21, 2012
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    5. Link Love: 11/22/2019

      • Date: November 22, 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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    7. Objects from Apollo 11 bag. Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum.

      Link Love: 2/13/2015

      • Date: February 13, 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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    9. A woman stands in front of a glass case with dresses on mannequins.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Anthea M. Hartig

      • Date: May 15, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Anthea M. Hartig, Elizabeth MacMillan Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, became the first woman to ever lead the museum in 2019. She oversees more than 250 employees, a budget of $40 million, and 1.8 million objects. #Groundbreaker

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    11. Composite of 700 images from the Freer Ramayana.

      Link Love: 12/19/2014

      • Date: December 19, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On New Years Day 2015, the 44,000 works of art in the Smithsonian’s Freer | Sackler collection will be available online. [via WAMU] Dumpster diving! The National Museum of American History added a copy of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 game found in a landfill to their collection. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]The grand re-opening of

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    13. Google Art Project now has 3D objects from a variety of museums and galleries, including animal skulls!

      Link Love: 4/10/2015

      • Date: April 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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      Link Love: 7/29/2011

      • Date: July 29, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: An important part of the museum story that we often forget: how the objects got there in the first place. Donors’ stories often reveal the fascinating and complicated path that object take before they come into the Smithsonian’s collections. Here’s a great read on a family who collected celluloid (plastic) souvenirs, jewelry, products, and knick-knacks, that now reside at the

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    17. Plymouth Rock Piece, 1620, Photo: Harold Dorwin.

      Link Love: 11/25/2011

      • Date: November 25, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    19. A woman wearing gloves and a man work with a wooden tool on a desk.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Stagnitto Ellis

      • Date: September 16, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Since 2009, Janice Stagnitto Ellis has been the senior paper and book conservator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Between 1992 and 1999, Ellis worked as a senior book conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. In her current role at the Museum, Ellis supervises the day-to-day operations of the Paper Conservation Lab. She is responsible for the

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    21. Photograph of a person with crossed arms looking directly at the camera.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Melissa Chiu

      • Date: September 11, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Melissa Chiu, Director, Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2014–present, oversees a staff of 50 and a collection of 12,000 objects. Within the first year of her tenure, Chiu doubled the number of museum board members, and, in 2017, the Hirshhorn Museum met a milestone of one million visitors. #Groundbreaker

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    23. A Window into the Grand Tour: Traveling in the Style of James Smithson

      • Date: December 4, 2012
      • Description: A new exhibition offers a chance to explore the world of Grand Tour travel in the late eighteenth century, similar to that experienced by the Smithsonian’s own founding donor, James Smithson.

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