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    1. Iron Mountain Stoneware envelope.

      Design + Archives: Craft Multiples

      • Date: May 10, 2016
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look at the design and style of selected letterhead from entries into the Renwick Gallery's exhibition, Craft Multiples.

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    3. A woman watches from scaffolding as a man paints a ceiling.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Grace Lincoln Temple

      • Date: January 5, 2022
      • 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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    5. Star Symbol memorandum, August 30, 1968. Record Unit 319: National Collection of Fine Arts, Publication Editor, Departmental Records, 1967-1970, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Design + Archives: Star Search

      • Date: January 26, 2017
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

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    7. An illustration of the Children’s Room in the Smithsonian Castle. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Smithsonian Libraries.

      Knowledge Begins in Wonder: The Design Behind the Smithsonian Children’s Room

      • Date: March 1, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.

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    9. Two ruby slippers with an FBI badge and single red sequin in between the slippers.

      Link Love: 9/7/2018

      • Date: September 7, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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    11. Black and white image of African American woman holding her baby, looking out the window.

      Link Love: 4/13/2018

      • Date: April 13, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now

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    13. Gene Wilder

      Link Love: 9/2/2016

      • Date: September 2, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Archives pay tribute to Gene Wilder. [via University of Iowa Libraries]A behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Film Archives' efforts to save historic films...and the task is enormous. [via NY Times]The director who's making history on 9/24 with the opening of our National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lonnie Bunch. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Speaking of the

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    15. Objects for Preparing Food, exhibition catalogue, 1972.

      Design + Archives: Objects for Preparing Food

      • Date: December 1, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Design + Archives takes a look at an exhibition from the Renwick, "Objects for Preparing Food," from 1973.

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    17. Color photograph of dilapidated house in dark light.

      Link Love: 9/22/2017

      • Date: September 22, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales reconstructed the daunting Underground Railroad route in pictures. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Teachers! Incredible footage, objects, and images of WWI from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the National WWI Museum and Memorial, in the new app, Remembering WWI. [via History Pin] Save the date for

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    19. Portrait of Theo van Gogh, 1887, by Vincent van Gogh.

      Link Love: 2/12/2016

      • Date: February 12, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: You can now download hi-res images of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings, sketches, and letters. [via Open Culture and Vincent Van Gogh Museum]Speaking of Van Gogh, the Art Institute of Chicago has recreated the bedroom in his famous painting and it is now for rent on Air BnB. [via Colossal]More enjoyable art browsing brought to you by technology! Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of

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    21. Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

      • Date: March 31, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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    23. Black and white portrait

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dianne H. Pilgrim

      • Date: June 14, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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