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    The Archives’ Video Digitization Equipment Gets an Upgrade

    • Date: April 2, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The Archives recently upgraded its video digitization equipment to an open source, cost effective solution.

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    The Archives’ Hidden Women

    • Date: March 15, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the

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  5. Devra Kleiman and others taking measurements in Brazil of a Golden Lion Tamarin.

    Archives: It’s not just paper, it’s people

    • Date: August 29, 2011
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8807,size=250,left] In the institutional archivists' world, there is constant discussion about what we save and why we save it. While there are many reasons why this is such a pointed concern, one of the main factors institutions consider when deciding what to collect is the relevance of a collection's contents to the institution's mission.

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    Archiving a Dream

    • Date: December 7, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Traditionally, when families gather for end-of-the-year holiday events, reminiscences are shared, new photos and videos get made, and/or old snapshots, home movies, and memories resurface. And while most family narratives are revisited in intimate settings, around kitchen tables or in living rooms, a handful may reach broader audiences, through one set of circumstances or

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    Archiving the Smithsonian’s presence on the Internet

    • Date: September 2, 2010
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  11. Hansen sits on a balcony ledge overlooking the water with another man. He is not wearing a shirt and both men are looking toward the camera.

    Capturing Panama with Carl C. Hansen

    • Date: June 15, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Today is Nature Photography Day, so we’re highlighting the career and work of Smithsonian photographer Carl C. Hansen.

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  13. 2 rows of 5 examples of various logos in black and white

    Design + Archives: One Smithsonian

    • Date: February 1, 2018
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A discussion of the 1998 Smithsonian Visual Identity Program in the context of the Smithsonian's 2017 strategic plan.

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  15. Letter to R. Edward Earll instructing him to retrieve the dagger belonging to the Leif Erikson statue from the Superintendent of the Women’s Building, written on United States National Museum letterhead.

    Digitization and Exploration: An Intern Works with the Exposition Records

    • Date: December 10, 2020
    • Description: Learn about the digitization process and some fun Smithsonian history from a fall internship project!

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  17. Page from a coloring activitity of rooms in the Smithsonian Castle. This one is of the library.

    Distance Learning Activities and Tips from the Archives

    • Date: April 14, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Whether you have a little downtime or you wish you remembered what downtime was like, the Archives is here for you with a few distance learning activities and organization tips.

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    Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites

    • Date: August 2, 2011
    • Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.

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  21.  Registrar Card for Earthenware Bird Effigy Canteen Collected by E. P. Killip.

    Folklife Festival 2011: Colombia and the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 5, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Folklife Festival 2011: Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program

    • Date: July 7, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held from June 30 to July 4 and July 7 to 11, 2011 on the National Mall. Read more about the history of the Folklife Festival here. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order authorizing the Peace Corps to

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