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  1. Two handwritten journal pages, written in black and blue ink. The left page is a list of books the author wishes to purchase and miscellaneous notes, and the right page is a summary of some personal correspondence.

    Happy National Limerick Day!

    • Date: May 11, 2021
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: Tomorrow is National Limerick Day!

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    Hide and Seek

    • Date: December 9, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_10342" align="alignleft" width="228" caption="Miss Willey Glover DeNis, (1879-1929), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2008-0987."][/caption] At the Archives, we often run across images that have minimal information associated with them. Sometimes it’s a number or a name (usually incomplete) or a year. It is rare to find a beautifully complete

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  5. Stereoview showing a piece of mummy cartonnage (wrappings) painted with hieroglyphics, from Saqqara, Egypt, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2018

    • Date: September 27, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this summer 2018 by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  7. Three men in mariachi outfits hold instruments and walk. They are wearing hats and their faces are painted.

    How Much is in That Terabyte?

    • Date: December 6, 2018
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: 2018 was a busy year for born-digital collections at the Archives

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  9. Tweet sent by Jacob Harris, 11/12/2014.

    How Uncle Maurice Saved the Smithsonian Elephant

    • Date: January 6, 2015
    • Description: There's no doubt that Washington, D.C. is a great place to raise kids. And one of the primary reasons why is the wide array of Smithsonian museums that are only a subway ride away. It's no wonder that regular visits to the National Mall have been an important part of our family's culture and history since the early 1970's. And part of that history has been the story of "how

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    It Takes a Village

    • Date: October 13, 2010
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Sometimes a single picture or new piece of information can open a window to a whole new perspective. In my case, it was a couple of sentences—spoken at a recent presentation at the Best Practices Exchange 2010 conference in Phoenix, Arizona—that turned out to be revelatory. The conference was a gathering of archivists, librarians, record managers, and digital curators whose

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    Join us on Facebook Live: Dyar's Law Revisited at the National Museum of Natural History

    • Date: July 20, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Join us on Facebook Live tomorrow at 12 p.m., as we visit the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History's Department of Entomology to learn how archival collections are being used in modern research.

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    Life & Death. Still & Moving Pictures.

    • Date: July 23, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Marey Wheel Photographs of Unidentified Model, with Eadweard Muybridge Notations, by Thomas Eakins, 1884, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden."][/caption] Please be aware that some of the photographs included in links within this post may contain graphic and emotionally disturbing material. Which are more powerful,

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    With a Little Unpaid Help From My Friends

    • Date: August 15, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Late in July, LENS, a New York Times blog that focuses on images and issues photographic, posted an interesting story by James Estrin. Magnum Photos, the legendary co-operative photo agency founded after World War II by photographers including Robert Capa and Henri Cartier Bresson, announced that to boost the visibility (and paid use) of the hundreds of thousands of images it

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  19. A handwritten map. On a square box are tiny, labeled circles. The paper is dated 1992.

    Love a Tree (Every)Day

    • Date: May 16, 2019
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: On Love a Tree Day, the Archives discusses the Smithsonian's dedication to trees throughout the world.

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  21. Me and You and a Dog Named.....

    • Date: August 28, 2018
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Pupper, doggy, hound, bowwow, beastie, pooch. No matter what we call dogs, they have always been man’s best friend. In honor of National Dog Day, let’s take a look at the pooches that pop up in the Archives' collections. In addition, I’ll debut my best little furry friend with her first Smithsonian appearance. [view:sia_slideshow==84513]Related CollectionsNational Zoological

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    Please Feed the Visitors!

    • Date: August 3, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7706" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="First eBook made by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media, August 2, 2010"]You [/caption] Update: You can read a follow-up post about the Anthologize project and process here. As Head of Web & New Media, I'm always looking for ways we can engage visitors with our papers, photographs,

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