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    Link Love: 11/12/2010

    • Date: November 12, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Steven Cohn, the Smithsonian’s Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management and the museum’s representative Industrial Hygienist, tests Owney's fur for arsenic, lead and mercury. Courtesy of the National Postal Museum "Pushing the Envelope" blog."][/caption] More interesting preservation challenges. We’ve covered

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    See Here: 5/19/2010

    • Date: May 19, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904, Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum exhibit includes the Langley Aerodrome, a model of a whale suspended from the ceiling, natural history exhibits, archaeological objects, and industrial machines, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the

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  5. A woman in a long, strapless dress sits in a chair and looks upward. Eye masks hang on the wall behind her.

    Link Love: 11/16/2018

    • Date: November 16, 2018
    • 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. Air and Space Building

    Sneak Peek 2/9/2015

    • Date: February 9, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Northeast corner of the Air and Space Building, now known as the National Air and Space Museum, April 15, 1974, 74-6628.

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  9. Scan of a 1938 Washington Post article.

    Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian

    • Date: April 26, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August

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  11. 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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  13. This photo shows the measurement - 2 feet - of the front foot of the elephant donated by Josef J. Fénykövi to the Smithsonian Institution.

    Hot Topics in Archives Research

    • Date: October 24, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    You Asked, We Answered: Taking Care of Your Own Archives

    • Date: October 28, 2010
    • 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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    You're Going to Throw That Out? Now?

    • Date: May 9, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Institutions devise all sorts of procedures to determine what kinds of documents to collect, and how to save and archive them. The Smithsonian Institution Archives, for example, advises and works with various museums, research institutes, and offices across the Smithsonian, on an ongoing basis, to determine and manage what will get archived for posterity. But in some

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  19. Interior View of Silver Hill Facility Storage Building

    Sneak Peek 12/4/2017

    • Date: December 4, 2017
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Interior view of Silver Hill Facility storage building #4, with Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-3 in view, 71-1136.

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  21. An illustration of the Children’s Room in the Smithsonian Castle. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Smithsonian Libraries.

    Knowledge Begins in Wonder: The Design Behind the Smithsonian Children’s Room

    • Date: March 1, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.

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    Link Love: 1/22/2010

    • Date: January 22, 2010
    • 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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