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  1. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2019

    • Date: March 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers this winter.

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    What is a Primary Source

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      How to Do Oral History

      • Date: May 7, 2020
      • Description: Oral history is a technique for generating and preserving original, historically interesting information – primary source material – from personal recollections through planned recorded interviews.

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      Microsoft Word - Oral_History_Basic_Information_FINAL (1).docx

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        Biographical Information

        • Date: April 20, 2011
        • Description: Biographical information can be found throughout the Archives’ holdings. These collections are especially rich in material documenting Smithsonian staff and scientific collaborators. Accession 05-123, Smithsonian Institution, Personnel Records, 1892–1952 This accession consists of early personnel records. Notable staff include: C.G. (Charles Greeley) Abbot, Carl Whiting

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        SIA Acc. 07-020, Smithsonian American Art Museum Curatorial Office, Exhibition Records, 1981-2001

        • Date: 1981 1981-2001
        • Creator: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Curatorial Office
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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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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      • Link Love: 11/01/2019

        • Date: November 1, 2019
        • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
        • 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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        Science Service, Up Close: Tips for Writers – Running Starts and Clean Plates

        • Date: February 19, 2019
        • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
        • Description: As the Director of Science Service, chemist Edwin Emery Slosson not only edited the submissions of his staff and external contributors but he also dispensed writing tips that remain timely today.

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        Emily Niekrasz

        • Date: October 10, 2018
        • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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        SIA Acc. 09-106, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Curatorial - American Art, Object Files, c. 1978-1982

        • Date: 1978 1978-1982 c 1978-1982
        • Creator: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Curatorial - American Art
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      • Black and white photo of a young Margaret Collins sitting at a lab bench with a microscope in front of her.

        Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor

        • Date: March 27, 2018
        • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
        • Description: During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist and civil rights activist. While her fieldwork has been written about previously, that is clearly just one part of a full and distinguished career.Collins’ interest in science

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