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  1. Eden Orelove in the SIA cold vault, 2013

    Highlight from the Photo Cold Vault: Gelatin Dry Plate Negatives

    • Date: May 9, 2013
    • Description: Read a brief history of the gelatin dry plate negative and learn about the work being done at the Smithsonian Institution Archives to preserve this glass plate negative photographic format.

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  3. Unlocking the Vault

    • Date: February 28, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives manages the cold storage vault at the National Museum of American History where approximately 3 million negatives are stored.

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  5. Blog Post

    Some Further Thoughts About Photography And the Smithsonian

    • Date: October 18, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Architect's Model of the Smithsonian Institution Castle, 1846, by Unidentified photographer, Daguerreotype, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Image ID: AFS 140."][/caption] In 2000, as an answer to the question, “does the Smithsonian have

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  7. A woman wearing glasses smiles at the camera.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: February 7, 2019
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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  9. Various media flagged for archiving by the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    New Collections by the Numbers

    • Date: October 27, 2015
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: New Archives collections are trending towards more electronic records, but more paper as well.

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  11. Effie Kapsalis pictured with Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Effie Kapsalis

    • Date: December 20, 2022
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Digital strategist Effie Kapsalis was dedicated to building bridges between Smithsonian collections and audiences. In a Smithsonian career spanning nearly twenty years, Effie mobilized her colleagues to share more diverse stories, break down barriers to access, and fight for gender and racial equity in the cultural heritage sphere. Sadly, we lost Effie on December 11, 2022.

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  13. Worn portrait of man sitting cross-legged in wooden chair next to a table with a lamp and books.

    Link Love: 10/13/2017

    • Date: October 13, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own

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  15. Graphic of kitten popping through ceiling into outer space saying,

    Link Love: 5/26/2017

    • Date: May 26, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Entertaining "Page Not Found' 404's from museums. [via Hyperallergic]Paleontologist Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, used museum collections to determine the reason baleen whales became gigantic. Plus you can help transcribe specimen labels from our Fossil Marine Invertebrates collection! [via NY Times] Harvard archivists found what they believe

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  17. Blog Post

    The Enid A. Haupt Garden

    • Date: January 20, 2015
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A look at the Enid A. Haupt Garden as it was established in 1987.

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  19. Link Love: 10/23/2020

    • Date: October 23, 2020
    • 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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    Link Love: 1/28/2011

    • Date: January 28, 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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  23. Variety of record formats that are commonly found in archives.

    Some Archival Career Advice

    • Date: April 26, 2012
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Commonly asked questions and answers about becoming an archivist.

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