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  1. Collage of three images showing disc fragments being placed in a plastic bag, tape being applied to the bag, and the bag being taped the cover of the enclosure.

    Stabilizing Lacquer Transcription Discs

    • Date: October 18, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Improved physical housing is one step you can take to help extend the life of your audiovisual media. Take a look at the new housing for lacquer transcription disc recordings from The World is Yours radio programs.

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    A Tale of Coffee and Collecting

    • Date: November 30, 2010
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Archives are often used by genealogists to create their family histories. Often it's a tedious process that can involve many repositories throughout the country or even the world, but the final product can be fascinating. Take, for instance, Melbourne ("Mel") Romaine Carriker's Vista Nieve: The Remarkable True Adventures of an Early Twentieth Century Naturalist and His Family

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    A Taste For Adventure

    • Date: May 3, 2018
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: A couple of months ago, Tony Cohn, host of Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast, contacted the Archives about an upcoming episode they were preparing. Sidedoor highlights the unseen or little-known stories about collections at the Smithsonian. The Archives’ work was recently front-and-center of an episode of The Sidedoor Podcast about America’s first food spy.

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  7. Mending one of the specimen illustrations atop a light box.

    An Undersea Invertebrates Update: Treatment Progress on Bartsch’s Nudibranchs Field Book

    • Date: May 18, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Treatment continues on Paul Bartsch’s field book documenting nudibranchs—see our progress!

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    Women in the Office of Protection Services

    • Date: March 12, 2019
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: In 1974, women joined the Smithsonian security force and they have been rising through the ranks ever since.

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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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    Broadcasting Live from the Sun...

    • Date: November 22, 2016
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.

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    “A Formal Voice at the Institution”

    • Date: June 18, 2020
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: Revisiting the call to create the Smithsonian Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee.

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  17. Eat more corn, oats and rye products, 1917, by L. N. Britton, U. S. Food Administration, World War I Posters, Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-2975.

    Smithsonian Staff Work Together to Help During World War I

    • Date: July 22, 2014
    • Description: A look at the often forgotten people you can find in archives and what we can learn from them.

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    And don’t forget your badge this time!

    • Date: January 2, 2018
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Despite my long experience responding to many an incident affecting cultural heritage infrastructure and collections, since 2016, I have gained valuable experience living through the Atlantic hurricane season from the perspectives of both a professional immersed in the disaster lifecycle (preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation), and the individuals, businesses, and

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  21. A Weddell seal in the ice hole at Station 61B (August 16, 1961). Note the metal casing which lines the hole and the canvas cover used to close off the area between the floor of the shack and the top of the casing. Photograph by Jack L. Littlepage. Accession 15-281: John H. Dearborn Papers, 1950-2006, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2015-008032.

    Antarctic Explorations: The Diary of John H. Dearborn

    • Date: July 30, 2015
    • Description: With the recent acquisition of the papers of scientist John H. Dearborn, here is an introduction to his life and research at the edge of the world.

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  23. GIF for ask an archivist day. The text reads: #AskAnArchivist Day @SmithsonianArch October 13, 2021. Four moving GIFS in the background feature: a photo slide cabinet, pages turning of an oversize document, someone walking down a photo storage aisle, and a document box being out together.

    #AskAnArchivist 2021

    • Date: October 14, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: You asked. We answered. And we had a whole lot of fun doing it. On October 13, 2021, Archives staff answered questions on Twitter and Instagram for #AskAnArchivist Day 2021.

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