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  1. Secretary G. Wayne Clough and Smithsonian Historian, Pam Henson, 12/4/2014

    And the award goes to...

    • Date: December 30, 2014
    • Creator: Anne Van Camp
    • Description: The Secretary’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service was created in 1964 and is the highest honor given to Smithsonian staff for exceptional service over a long period of time. On December 4, 2014, Secretary G. Wayne Clough presented this award to Pam Henson for a lifetime of exceptional service to the Smithsonian Institution. She began her career here in 1973 and has been in

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  3. Owney the Railway Mail Dog’s Facebook Info Page on March 2, 2011.

    The Smithsonian: Using and Archiving Facebook

    • Date: May 31, 2011
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    “Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971

    • Date: August 21, 2018
    • Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of

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    The Smithsonian’s First Woman Employee: Jane W. Turner, Librarian

    • Date: March 27, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Jane Turner was the first paid female employee at the Smithsonian, eventually becoming the Smithsonian’s Librarian.

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  9. Freeze Frame (Freeze Frame)!

    • Date: May 12, 2022
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: At the Archives we get to see hundreds and hundreds (technically ~3 million if we wanted) images and photographs. We sometimes lose focus (ahh, get it) of all the amazing people behind the lens.National Photograph Month at the Archives

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  11. Sophie G. Lutterlough c. 2008, photographer unknown, www.tributes.com.

    “It Won’t Be Easy to Leave after 40 Years”: Sophie Lutterlough’s Career at the National Museum of Natural History

    • Date: February 16, 2016
    • Description: This post discusses the contributions of Sophie Lutterlough to the National Museum of Natural History.

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  13. Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing #121, 1870s; Drawing

    Open Access: Put a Bird On It

    • Date: February 24, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: In alignment with SI's newly launched Smithsonian Open Access, Smithsonian Institution Archives has designated over 2000 items as open access!

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    What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?

    • Date: April 7, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and

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    The Smithsonian Castle: Tragic Death, a Mystery, and Strange Occurrences

    • Date: March 29, 2016
    • Description: On this day in 1850, a young man was killed in the Castle, the first of four deaths to occur within its walls. William H. Page was working in the building, which was still under construction at the time, when he fell to his death.

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  19. Mary S. M. Gibson, January 1954, Frank J. Gilloon Agency, Record Unit 267: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Records, 1881, 1895-1976, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Women in Humanities

    • Date: March 3, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: To kick off Women's History month, a look at some of the women in humanities represented in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.

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  21. Devra Kleiman and others taking measurements in Brazil of a Golden Lion Tamarin.

    Archives: It’s not just paper, it’s people

    • Date: August 29, 2011
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8807,size=250,left] In the institutional archivists' world, there is constant discussion about what we save and why we save it. While there are many reasons why this is such a pointed concern, one of the main factors institutions consider when deciding what to collect is the relevance of a collection's contents to the institution's mission.

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    Archiving the Smithsonian’s presence on the Internet

    • Date: September 2, 2010
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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