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  1. No. 40. Crew member preparing plant specimens for Smithsonian, off the east coast of Greenland, 1936. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007231, Image no. SIA2012-0660

    Another Milestone Met: Reminiscing about the Field Book Project and Looking Forward

    • Date: February 21, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.

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  3. Rafinesque’s drawings of tortoises observed along the Ohio River, 1818.

    Link Love: 4/13/2012

    • Date: April 13, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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    Link Love: 7/24/2014

    • Date: July 25, 2014
    • 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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  7. Whiteboards and poster boards are covered in post-its. It’s difficult to make out what they say. Temporary desks are below the boards.

    Take a picture, it’ll last longer

    • Date: November 2, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: On what better day than Election Day to follow up on that tidbit I dropped a couple weeks ago regarding a consultation about then-candidate Barack Obama’s dry-erase boards, a recent acquisition by the National Museum of African American History and Culture? These artifacts, along with archival material and other realia (in archives terms: a man-made three-dimensional object)

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  9. Preservation Week is April 27 to May 3, 2014. May Day is a time to reflect and do something to better prepare for emergencies at your archives, library, museum, historical society, or preservation organizations.

    What is the PRICE of Emergencies on Cultural Heritage?

    • Date: May 1, 2014
    • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
    • Description: In honor of MayDay – Do One Thing for Emergency Preparedness, 2014, here is an item of interest about a new group at the Smithsonian called Preparation and Response in Collections Emergencies (PRICE) and resources on Incident Command in emergencies for cultural heritage organizations.

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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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    Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

    • Date: June 16, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Since The Bigger Picture began in early 2009, I’ve written a number of posts about what might be called camera traps, situations where cameras are installed to collect evidence of one kind of unusual or unwanted behavior or another. Red light cameras are a controversial example; across the country and on an almost daily basis, local municipalities and motorists argue about

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  15. Link Love: 10/19/2018

    • Date: October 19, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: The Theodore Roosevelt Papers are now digitized and available online through the Library of Congress Digital Collections. Don't try browsing all at once—there are over 450,000 images! [via Library of Congress][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9575,size=300,center]With the help of ground-penetrating radar, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research has discovered a thousand-year-old

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    Here at the Smithsonian: Black Pride at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum

    • Date: February 23, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: To celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring exhibitions from the Anacostia Community Museum in the 1980s.

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    Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success

    • Date: December 18, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.

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  21. Screenshot of a Twitter thread about a DC Alliance for Response workshop.

    Pandemic Tests Preparedness

    • Date: September 3, 2020
    • Description: This National Preparedness Month, collections care professionals might consider joining their local Alliance for Response initiative to improve their organizations, practices, and programs.

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  23. Frank Thone and a "Square Deal" on Earth Day

    • Date: April 22, 2013
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A photo montage of a science journalist and a fly illustrates the man's sense of humor and attitudes toward nature.

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