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What He Wrote and Where He Wrote It
- Date: December 15, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Salman Rushdie's archives, featured in an Emory University publication, by Georgia Popplewell, Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic."][/caption] Back in October I talked—with great interest and at length—with Anne Van Camp, director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, about the various
Who Wore What and When?
- Date: August 31, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Savage Beauty, the posthumous and retrospective exhibition of women’s fashions designed by Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art closed early in August. The record breaking event—an official attendance count of 661,509 visitors made it the eighth biggest show in the museum’s history—featured approximately one hundred ensembles drawn, primarily,
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What price fame?
- Date: August 5, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Greta Garbo, by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1939, National Portrait Gallery, © Estate of Clarence Sinclair Bull"][/caption] Annie Leibovitz isn’t the first celebrity photographer to become as famous as the subjects she shoots (think Matthew Brady, Edward Steichen, and Richard Avedon, to name just a few). But in the last few
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No We Can't
- Date: December 16, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Author! Author!
- Date: June 20, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Back in December, I wrote a post about Emory University’s efforts to make the writer Salman Rushdie’s digital files available to fans, researchers, and interested parties. A couple of days ago, I came across an interesting report about a gathering, an “unconference,” that was sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, which
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Love It! Where Can I Buy It?
- Date: February 24, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- 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
A Second Round of "Firsts"
- Date: January 6, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: We found so many interesting photos of “firsts” as we put together our post to celebrate New Year’s Day, we thought we’d post a second group of firsts. We hope you enjoy another slideshow of images of the curious and unique. Click on the image to begin the slideshow.
Looking for love
- Date: February 14, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Across the Smithsonian, in hundreds of photographic collections, you’ll find images that document historic objects and events, species on land and under the oceans, cultural achievement, and data that streams in from outer space on a daily basis.
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Wipe That Grin Off Your Face!
- Date: June 2, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Look! Up In the Sky! It's . . .
- Date: July 1, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="277" caption="Cascading Light, by Terry Mann."][/caption] It was 3 o’clock in the morning and something out of the ordinary was happening. And good neighbor that she is—although it might not seem that way to all of you—Terry Mann grabbed her camera then started waking people up. There wasn’t anything wrong in the neighborhood, but she
Happy New Year! Some Photographs of Firsts
- Date: January 1, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: In many cases, after photography was introduced to the public in 1839, if an event seemed like it might be unique, it is likely that someone (or, more recently, something) was there to photograph it. Even today, when cameras are positioned to photograph repetitious things or situations—cars at traffic lights, luggage at airports, shoppers lingering around merchandise on