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    1. 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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    3. Link Love: 11/20/15

      • Date: November 20, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In anticipation of its Fall 2016 opening, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) did something beautiful. A film, by Stanley J. Nelson and Marcia Smith, was projected on NMAAHC's new building representing the history of African Americans in the U.S. You can check out all the images from the projection mapping on their Pinterest

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    5. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

      Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

      • Date: December 10, 2019
      • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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      ‘Oh, I’m Glad That’s on the Mall’: NMAAHC Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary

      • Date: September 23, 2021
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: The National Museum of African American History and Culture marks its fifth anniversary.

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    9. Worn portrait of man sitting cross-legged in wooden chair next to a table with a lamp and books.

      Link Love: 10/13/2017

      • Date: October 13, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own

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    11. Wiki Loves Monuments

      Link Love: 9/16/2016

      • Date: September 16, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Lend a hand to "Wiki Loves Monuments" to improve Wikipedia articles about U.S. historic sites. The Banned Book Handbook, 2016 edition. [via Info Docket]Didn't get tickets to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum opening? You can still attend the surrounding festival featuring The Roots and Public Enemy! [via NY Times]The first

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    13. Portrait of a woman sitting. She is wearing a bonnet. The image is framed in an orange oval inside a gold frame. The work is labeled,

      Link Love: 7/12/2019

      • Date: July 12, 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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    15. Carte Geologique De L'Europe.

      Link Love: 6/24/2016

      • Date: June 24, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Stanford David Rumsey Map Collection now has over 69,000 historic maps available online. [via KQED]Incredible color photos of Martin Luther King, some of which are part of our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via NPR]Great news for geneologists! The Digital Public Library of America & FamilySearch International have signed an agreement that will

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    17. Link Love: 6/21/2019

      • Date: June 21, 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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    19. Photos courtesy Zak Jensen & Andrea Shea/WBUR

      Link Love: 1/15/16

      • Date: January 15, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Harvard's pigment collection. [via Collossal]Also with gorgeous colors, a 700+ page Dutch book from 1692 documenting "every color in the spectrum." [via Open Culture] A new online exhibit examining what it's like to work in the U.S. on a H-1B visa from the Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center. [via Smithsonian Magazine] Later this year, scientists (including our own

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      Color History with the Smithsonian Recap!

      • Date: April 5, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, over 30 volunteers showed up at the National Museum of the American Indian to write minority women into digital history during a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month. On the to-do list were artists, educators, activists, Smithsonian employees, the first Chinese-American female dentist, and the African-American woman who

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    23. Museum window covered in red polka dots of varying sizes with man walking by.

      Link Love: 2/24/2017

      • Date: February 24, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Hirshhorn and neighboring areas are enveloped in polka dots, and we love it. [via Washington Post]A new African American history treasure trove; digitized post-Civil War 'wanted ads' searching for love ones separated by slavery. [via NPR]11 African American inventors (including the Smithsonian's own Regent, Dr. Shirley Jackson) who changed the world. [via Mental Floss]The

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