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    1. Blue/green circle with golden sunburst with wavy rays and Smithsonian in text underneath

      Link Love: 12/8/2017

      • Date: December 8, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The man who created the Smithsonian's contemporary visual identity system, Ivan Chermayeff, died this week. Here's more on the history of the Smithsonian's identity. [via Smithsonian Magazine]If you're a high school student interested in design, you have until February 12 to enter the Cooper Hewitt's competition for design solutions to make the everyday more accessible! Also

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    3. Photos from a 1976 press release kit.

      Documenting the Opening of a Museum

      • Date: September 27, 2016
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A look at how documenting the opening of a museum has changed in the age of social media.

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    5. Smithsonian employees hanging Christmas ornaments, 1977

      Tis the Season at the Smithsonian

      • Date: December 20, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: How the Smithsonian celebrated the holidays in 1977, and what traditions continue today!

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    7. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018

      • Date: December 27, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    9. Yak with long fur stands in the snow. It is facing the camera.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2021

      • Date: October 12, 2021
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    11. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2019

      • Date: December 26, 2019
      • 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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      What are You Watching?

      • Date: August 22, 2013
      • Description: How open source helps us save film and video recordings digitally . . . no matter how bizarre the subject matter.

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    15. Portrait of Helena M. Weiss

      Women Managing the Smithsonian

      • Date: March 17, 2020
      • Description: Meet some of the women who have managed aspects of the Smithsonian since the 1850s.

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    17. Adopt-a-Book save-the-date promo graphic. The background is a painting of purple flowers. The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives logo is on the left. The right includes the text: Save the dates Adopt-a-Book Salons.

      Welcome to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book Program

      • Date: March 10, 2022
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: We all have the opportunity to support the Smithsonian—come see how the Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book program offers a chance to do so.

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    19. Another scrapbook, previously disbound, in much worse condition. See a previous archivist’s insert on the right, presumably assessing the book’s condition: “A hideous example of what happens to records which are left to the tender graces of time.” Courtesy of Marie Desrochers.

      Mending Tissues and More: Stabilizing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbooks for Digitization

      • Date: August 25, 2015
      • Description: Intern Marie Desrochers details her experience with co-intern Sarah Casto, stabilizing and rehousing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbook collection at Archives of American Art.

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    21. A group of people hold up “welcome” signs at an entrance of the National Museum of American History.

      We Apologize for the Inconvenience: Shutting Down the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 14, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: In 2019, the Smithsonian faced the repercussions of the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown, but the institution is no stranger to the dreaded furlough.

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    23. A woman interviewing a man at a table with a recorder in between them.

      Exploring Oral History at the Smithsonian

      • Date: April 6, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: A brief history and exploration of oral history collections at the Smithsonian.

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