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    Hindsight is 20/20: Revisiting Paper Treatments From Twenty Years Ago

    • Date: April 28, 2011
    • Description: This post is written in honor of Preservation Week, April 24–30, 2011. In celebration of this week, preservation specialists around the world will bring attention to the preservation work going on in their institutions, and inspire action to preserve collections in libraries, archives, museums, and communities. [caption id="attachment_12654" align="aligncenter" width="432"

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    Snapshots at the Shore

    • Date: July 7, 2009
    • Description: To celebrate the season, we have a series of posts looking at images of summer in the Smithsonian photo archives and collections. To start things off, Mary Savig, Archives Specialist at the Archives of American Art, describes how artists recharged in the summer months. Like eager vacationers everywhere, artists have long escaped to the beach on hot summer days. The shore

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    Snapshots of Transition: Native American Reservation Life in the Early 1900s

    • Date: November 17, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="In this photo Reverend James O. Arthur poses on a sand dune at White Sands, New Mexico. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Catalog number: N53381."][/caption] This is the first entry in a series celebrating National Native American Heritage Month. In this series we will be highlighting photos from the

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  7. Keepsake pocket bank for the National Negro Memorial, ca. 1926

    The First Quest for a National African American Museum

    • Date: September 22, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: As National Museum of African American History and Culture opens, let’s look at the first efforts to establish a National African American Museum.

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        Secretary and Outdoorsman: Alexander Wetmore

        • Date: June 21, 2018
        • Creator: Tatiana Swann
        • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12035,size=350,center]June is National Camping Month, and to celebrate we are recognizing one of the Smithsonian’s original outdoorsmen: Alexander Wetmore. The Smithsonian’s sixth Secretary thrived outside. Annually for 20 years Wetmore would make the trip south to Panama, to the same spot, Isla Iguana. There he would conduct his observations, record

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      • Happy Tin-th Anniversary!

        • Date: October 8, 2019
        • Creator: Nora Lockshin
        • Description: A retrospective photo trip down the Archives’ conservation lab memory lane, featuring folks from past and present.

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      • Fragments of 12th-century manuscripts used to construct a 16th-century bookbinding

        Link Love: 6/9/2016

        • Date: June 10, 2016
        • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
        • Description: Celebrating our 300th Link Love since 2010!Macro x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (MA-XRF) reveals ancient manuscripts reused as bookbindings! [via The Guardian]A historic moment - refugees form their own squad for this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. [via NPR]Get your color on with National Parks! [via National Park Foundation]Artist Bill Domonkos' archival remixes.[via

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        Crossword Puzzle Day: Smithsonian History Edition

        • Date: December 16, 2021
        • Creator: Hannah Byrne
        • Description: For all of you crossword puzzle fans out there, test your knowledge of Smithsonian history.

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        Folklife Festival 2011: Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program

        • Date: July 7, 2011
        • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
        • Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held from June 30 to July 4 and July 7 to 11, 2011 on the National Mall. Read more about the history of the Folklife Festival here. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order authorizing the Peace Corps to

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      • Mercedes Arroyo looks directly into the camera.

        Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mercedes Arroyo

        • Date: July 8, 2020
        • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
        • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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