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    1. Writing At Cross Purposes

      • Date: June 12, 2012
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: Another discovery in the Smithsonian Institution Archives— a letter that takes illegibility to new heights.

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    3. October is American Archives Month

      Celebrate 2014 Archives Month!

      • Date: October 2, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: It's time again to celebrate all the wonderful things archives have and do! The Society of American Archivists declares each October American Archives Month and the Smithsonian theme for this year is "Discover and Connect." At the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we handle over 6000 reference requests per year and have an ambitious digitization plan to serve people worldwide

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Stagnitto Ellis

      • Date: September 16, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Since 2009, Janice Stagnitto Ellis has been the senior paper and book conservator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Between 1992 and 1999, Ellis worked as a senior book conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. In her current role at the Museum, Ellis supervises the day-to-day operations of the Paper Conservation Lab. She is responsible for the

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    7. Scared to Death?: The Curious Case of a Pine Mouse

      • Date: August 14, 2012
      • Description: “Can a Rattlesnake hypnotize a Pine Mouse to death”? Questions from a typical day of treatment for a Pre-Program Paper Conservation Intern.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Linda Edquist

      • Date: June 12, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Linda Edquist, Conservator and Head of Preservation, National Postal Museum, 1993–2018, managed conservation projects, staff, and exhibitions at the museum. Edquist first arrived at the Smithsonian as a Conservation Technician at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 1990–92. #Groundbreaker

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    11. Color image of tall glass covered buildings, making up the Houston skyline, against and almost completely blue sky.

      Conference Round-up: the Archives at AIC Houston

      • Date: June 5, 2018
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: As we teased earlier this spring in our Facebook Live event, last week Senior Conservator Nora Lockshin and I traveled to Houston, Texas, to share our work with conservation colleagues at the 46th annual meeting of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC). Our contributions centered around work with the Field Book Project, as did our Facebook Live.Another successful

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Susan Franz Lake

      • Date: July 14, 2021
      • 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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    15. 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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      I.D. This! Solid Ink Inkjet Print

      • Date: June 18, 2019
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Material and process identification is the key to a robust preservation strategy!

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    19. 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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      Just what is an archives, anyway?

      • Date: October 5, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: This month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, along with many other archives across the Smithsonian and around the nation, will be celebrating American Archives Month. The purpose of this celebration is "to raise awareness about the value of archives and archivists." We write a lot about what an archivist does on this blog, but, for those of you who don't know and are

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    23. World Watercolor Month at the Smithsonian

      • Date: July 22, 2021
      • Creator: Tatiana Swann
      • Description: We’re taking a look at the various watercolors the Smithsonian Institution has collected both past and present, highlighting the diversity in artists, technique, unique painting effect, and versatility to create anything from insects to cityscapes.

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