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  1. A woman smiles directly at the camera. Her hair is in a bun and she is wearing blue earrings and a necklace.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Claudine K. Brown

    • Date: February 27, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Claudine K. Brown began her long career with Smithsonian as the Director of the African American History Project, 1990–1995, developing a program plan for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Brown also served as Smithsonian’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Arts and Humanities, 1991-1995. She returned to the Smithsonian in 2010 as Assistant

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  3. Diana of the Tides’ vibrant colors are reminiscent of paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Diana’s creator John Elliott knew Maxfield and his father Stephen from visits to the artists colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Archives.

    Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time

    • Date: January 25, 2011
    • Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted

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    Link Love: 10/21/2011

    • Date: October 21, 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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  7. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2019

    • Date: September 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Here are some of the highlights of the research conducted this summer at SIA.

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    Link Love: 8/5/2011

    • Date: August 5, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The Freer Sackler Gallery’s efforts to make their large collection of squeezes (paper molds that capture the inscriptions of ancient monuments) into an easy-to-use Web resource received a nice write-up on The Atlantic’s Tech blog [originally posted on the Smithsonian Collections Blog]. David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, talks about “balancing access and

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    Autumn in the SI Collections

    • Date: October 7, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="179" caption="Nehemiah Hubbard Homestead, fall leaves on the mossy terrace, Middletown, Connecticut, by Elizabeth M. Bazazi, 1998, Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens."][/caption] It’s October already and the beginning of full-fledged fall in D.C. Autumn is . . . [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Great Basin

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  13. Iron Mountain Stoneware envelope.

    Design + Archives: Craft Multiples

    • Date: May 10, 2016
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A look at the design and style of selected letterhead from entries into the Renwick Gallery's exhibition, Craft Multiples.

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  15. Disk Diving: A Born Digital Collections Survey at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 13, 2012
    • Description: Details of a physical inventory/survery that is ongoing at the Smithsonian. The project is focused on finding and documenting born digital items at different archival units.

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  17. Exhibit cases In a large hall. A hanging sign reads: “History of the United States.” Visible in the cases are busts, vases, models of sailboats.

    Archives Puzzles: HBD, AIB

    • Date: April 12, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.In honor of the anniversary of the groundbreaking of the Arts and Industries Building, then known as the

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  19. Harpoons Mounted for Exhibit

    Sneak Peek 11/17/2014

    • Date: November 17, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Harpoons mounted for exhibit in the Fisheries area in the East North Range of the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building. Image Number: MAH-2855.

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  21. Exterior View of Smithsonian Buildings

    Sneak Peek 4/20/2015

    • Date: April 20, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Exterior view of the National Air Museum, Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, and the Arts and Industries Building featuring Rocket Row, as seen from Independence Avenue, 77-2273.

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  23. Checking Items into Patent Office Building, NCFA

    Sneak Peek 6/8/2015

    • Date: June 8, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: William R. Johnston of the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) registrar's office checks items into newly renovated space at the Patent Office Building, OPA-1003-07.

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