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    1. Sharon Jones' Birthday Party

      Link Love: 5/13/2016

      • Date: May 13, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Calling all history sleuths! The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History needs your help identifying . [via Smithsonian Magazine]Smithsonian Folkways has acquired the voluminous Arhoolie Records collection of blues, gospel, Cajun and Mexican folk music. [via NY Times]Did you miss the launch of the new rights statement framework for cultural heritage organizations

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    3. Young girl playing a violin with a piano and yellow electric guitar in the background.

      Turn up the Volume - The Electric Guitar

      • Date: March 5, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In November of 1996, the electric guitar, its history and its makers, were the focus of attention at the National Museum of American History.

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      Here at the Smithsonian: Black Pride at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum

      • Date: February 23, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: To celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring exhibitions from the Anacostia Community Museum in the 1980s.

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      50 Years of Folklife

      • Date: June 29, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10193,size=175,left]Fifty years ago the Smithsonian embarked on a new venture to bring the culture on display in the museum to life with the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then called the Festival of American Folklife, it set out to show that the crafts shown inside museums are also still alive and well across the country.

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    9. View of the courtyard at the center of the Freer Gallery. A working fountain is in view.

      The World Is Yours: Freer Gallery of Art

      • Date: April 15, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours about the Freer Gallery of Art.

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      Link Love: 4/28/2017

      • Date: April 28, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Very early "big data" tracking mortality rates in 17th-century London. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Mellon Foundation has funded an $887,000 project to develop community-driven archives! [via Info Docket]See what questions archivists across the country answered yesterday for #AskAnArchivist. [via SAA]What album would you be....if you could preserve yourself in a vinyl record.

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    13. Happy Flag Day!

      • Date: June 14, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as

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      Happy Flag Day!

      • Date: June 14, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as

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      Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art

      • Date: December 6, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.

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      Creating a Digital Smithsonian

      • Date: September 28, 2010
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_8323" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Smithsonian employees attend the 2010 Smithsonian Digitization Fair. Photograph by Michael Barnes."][/caption] For two days in mid-September, Smithsonian Institution employees gathered for a digitization fair to share ideas and hear about some neat projects. Even those who work here are impressed by

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      Do you remember . . . ?

      • Date: August 26, 2010
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Let’s Talk Turkey

      • Date: November 21, 2012
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Birds of a feather flock together, especially if they are a pair of patriotic turkeys who took up residency at the Smithsonian's National Zoo.

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