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  1. Portrait of woman in glasses with head turned to the side.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Massumeh Farhad

    • Date: October 25, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, has created numerous exhibitions on the arts of the Islamic world, and twice received the Smithsonian Secretary's prestigious research prize. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Plymouth Rock Piece, 1620, Photo: Harold Dorwin.

    Link Love: 11/25/2011

    • Date: November 25, 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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    Brave New Museum

    • Date: March 11, 2010
    • Description: Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University have announced a new system of powerful graphics algorithms that will create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods, and potentially even entire cities. Fittingly the inventors went for the gold and named the system PhotoCity. Like its precursor, Microsoft’s Photosynth, the

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    See Here: 10/25/2010

    • Date: October 25, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="334" caption="Paul Rhymer, Exhibits Specialist in Taxidermy at Exhibits Central, shows off the radio-controlled badger he created for Brian Miller, a post-doctoral fellow working at the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center (CRC) in Front Royal, VA, The "robo-badger" had been found as road-kill and mailed to Rhymer frozen,

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  9. Sneak Peek 10/8/2018

    • Date: October 8, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Bureau of American Ethnology exhibit featuring "Basketry of the American Indians" at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-16402.

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    Link Love: 12/6/2013

    • Date: December 6, 2013
    • 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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  13. Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit worn during a 2 hour, 31 minute, and 40 second EVA (extra-vehicular activity) on the Moon in 1969. Image by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Image no. NASM2012-01664.

    Link Love: 7/24/2015

    • Date: July 24, 2015
    • 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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  15. Link Love: 12/9/2016

    • Date: December 9, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: An Archivists' call-to-action, in song, from the Society of American Archivists, and Garrison Keeler. A new exhibit from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum examines clothing waste. [via Hyperallergic]The first curator of Media and Performance Art, Mark Beasely, was appointed at the Hirshhorn. [via Artnet]A new book is out about the team of Harvard female "computers"

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    Link Love: 10/22/2010

    • Date: October 22, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="214" caption="Neighborhood Map (Hopkins, 1887), Hand-colored neighborhood map, Office of the Surveyor Map Collection, Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs."][/caption] Looks a lot cooler than it sounds: the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs will post more than a century’s worth of beautiful maps to Flickr [via Effie

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  19. Goody Goody Gumdrops

    • Date: September 25, 2012
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: A history of pygmy hippopotamus naming conventions at the National Zoological Park.

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  21. Multiple Hearth Roasting Furnace

    Sneak Peek 12/30/2013

    • Date: December 30, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: "Multiple Hearth Roasting Furnace loaned by The Furnace Patent Co., Philadelphia PA." Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, 1915.

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  23. Two-Year Old Boy Sitting in Basket 1909, NAA INV 06226600, Glass Negative, National Anthropological Archives.

    You Asked, We Answered: 2015 Ask an Archivist

    • Date: November 10, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On Thursday, October 22nd, four of our archivists/conservators were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fifth year hosting

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