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    1. A group of men and women surround a table in a glass-walled room, listening to a man in a blue shirt describe a parchment document visible on the table in front of him.

      A Tale of Three Contracts

      • Date: September 5, 2019
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: An exciting new accession sheds light on James Smithson’s family history and fortune.

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    3. The indenture during the local humidification and flattening stage. The portion featuring the seals has become completely detached. Photo courtesy of William Bennett.

      Breach of Contract: Repairing the Walcott Indenture

      • Date: March 17, 2016
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: See how we preserved a recent arrival to the Archives.

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      Hall of Photography

      • Date: February 16, 2012
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Neil Allen worked on audiovisual elements in the Hall of Photography which opened at the National Museum of History and Technology in 1973.

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      A Hungerford Property History of Women’s Rights

      • Date: March 25, 2021
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: We’ve learned so much about the specific women of James Smithson’s family though the Hungerford Deed—but what can it tell us about women’s rights in the eighteenth century?

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      Introducing: A Tale of Two Sisters: The Hungerford Deed and James Smithson’s Legacy

      • Date: August 10, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: To commemorate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary on August 10, 2021, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is launching a web exhibit that sheds new light on English chemist James Smithson’s gift to found the Smithsonian.

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      In Memoriam: Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

      • Date: December 17, 2018
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives remembers Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

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      Faces in the Crowd

      • Date: March 3, 2011
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting new photos of women scientists to the Flickr Commons and highlighting these women in blog posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE, in honor of Women's History Month.[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="An unidentified woman (possibly Alice Haskins) sitting with U.S. Department of Agriculture,

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    15. View of the Smithsonian Castle in the distance behind a wall of trees, from downtown Washington

      The Smithsonian Castle Construction Begins

      • Date: March 19, 2019
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Building, or the “Castle,” is the most iconic of all the Smithsonian’s 769 facilities, which include its nineteen museums, nine research centers, National Zoo, and all of its other establishments. The Castle was the first building constructed specifically for the Smithsonian after it was founded in 1846. On March 19, 1847, a contract was signed with

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    17. Side-by-side of damaged papers, with folds and tears, and recently treated papers in good conditions.

      Decision-making and Digitization: Triaging Mass Treatment Options

      • Date: February 18, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Choosing the right treatment method can be a challenge—especially when mass interventions are needed on a tight deadline.

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      What Does an Electronic Records Archivist Do?

      • Date: August 10, 2010
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs,

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    21. The top portion of a parchment membrane with a wavy top edge is shown; dark, heavy, Gothic-style lettering appears at the top along with flourishes, and is also scattered throughout the text, as are words in forward-slanting italic writing.

      Celebrating Handwriting with the Hungerford Deed

      • Date: January 21, 2021
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Handwriting is a personal passion of mine, despite it having become something of a lost art. Today, when most people think of handwriting at all, it is as a greatly individual method of writing recognizable characters, regardless of the writing system, but in the past, when you could make a living as a scribe, there were highly standardized styles.

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      Revisiting the Construction of the Freer Gallery of Art

      • Date: September 29, 2016
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Some new insights from the construction records of the Freer Gallery of Art, celebrating 100 years since groundbreaking.

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