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      Link Love: 12/3/2010

      • Date: December 3, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="311" caption="IC 4970 and NGC 6872: Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole, X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/M.Machacek; Optical: ESO/VLT; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Caltech."][/caption] I’m sure you’re familiar with beauties, like the one above, from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Well, apparently, with “a basic understanding of astronomy data & image

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    3. Pink Scrapbook with Blank Cover, by pd_THOR, Creative Commons.

      Cut and Paste, Old Style

      • Date: September 13, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Some years back, and for what seemed like quite a while, people were talking about scrapbooking. As more aspects of everyday life were going digital, it felt like more and more people were paying homage to the paper-based mementoes of their experiences that appeared to be heading for oblivion. Quickly, and to support all the saving, trimming, and gluing that people were

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    5. The cover of the new book, Photography Changes Everything

      Just Published! Photography Changes Everything

      • Date: August 8, 2012
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: The Archives announces the publishing of the book, Photography Changes Everything, by Marvin Heiferman, and based on the click! online photo project.

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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

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    9. Robert Ridgway, 1873. Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collections, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives. Neg. no. SIA2008-4347.

      Meet Robert Ridgway, Ornithologist and Artist

      • Date: January 14, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: An introduction to Robert Ridgway, curator of birds at the United States National Museum from 1869-1929.

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    11. Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

      • Date: October 5, 2021
      • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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      Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success

      • Date: December 18, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.

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      Live Blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair!

      • Date: October 22, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_9678" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="View of the Archives Fair setup, October 22, 2010."][/caption] We are going to be live blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair this morning and profiling all of the activities that will be going on today. Stay tuned throughout the day to see what's going on. [caption id="attachment_9680"

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    17. Reference form for inquiries and use of collections, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Many Hands Make Light Work in the Digitization Process

      • Date: September 11, 2014
      • Description: Digitizing collection material at the Smithsonian Institution Archives is a group effort involving interns, volunteers, and staff.

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      This Week: Smithsonian Archives Fair and “Ask the Smithsonian” Q&A

      • Date: October 10, 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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    21. Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects

      • Date: October 15, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.

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      Link Love: 7/4/2014

      • Date: July 4, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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