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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Polly Willman

      • Date: May 13, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Polly Willman, Conservator of Costumes, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 1988–99, supervised staff and treated costume and textile objects for the museum’s major exhibitions, including for the redesign of the First Ladies Hall. #Groundbreaker

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      Link Love: 10/21/2016

      • Date: October 21, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History needs your help to preserve Dorothy's ruby red slippers. [via Washington Post]The gravedigger from Hamlet, Malvolio from Twelfth Night, and more Shakespeare-inspired Halloween costumes! [via Folger Shakespeare Library]IBM's Watson Supercomputer + Encyclopedia of Life= Biodiversity Treasure Trove Unlocked! [via Smithsonian

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      See Here: 10/19/2010

      • Date: October 19, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="446" caption="Visitors to the National Museum of American History (NMAH) Military History Hall, costumed in Revolutionary attire for the Treaty of Paris Bicentennial celebration held on the grounds around the Washington Monument, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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    7. Link Love: 11/20/2020

      • Date: November 20, 2020
      • 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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      Link Love: 10/29/2010

      • Date: October 29, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    11. Materials drying outside the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

      Link Love: 11/8/2013

      • Date: November 8, 2013
      • 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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    13. colorful image of machine illuminating a tiny spot in the middle of two points

      Link Love: 2/23/2018

      • Date: February 23, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Oxford University quantum physicist, David Nadlinger, captured the image of a single cell in an excited state. [via Colossal] The new director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art looks at how costumes in the new movie, Black Panther, reflect traditional African dress and its influence on the world.Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and

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      See Here: 10/7/2010

      • Date: October 7, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="358" caption="An exhibit case containing a model of a young woman looking at herself in the mirror wearing an 1880 satin brocade wedding gown, This exhibit is part of the Hall of American Costume in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, c. 1964, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white

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      Happy Halloween

      • Date: October 20, 2010
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: While reading through all of the great stories about archives this month, I came to the conclusion that archives serve as inspiration for a variety of things—research, papers, and yes, even Halloween costumes. Though we have been focusing many of our blog posts on archival issues for Archives Month this October, I have decided to open up the collections to help out anyone who

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      Empress Cixi: Scanned and Discovered

      • Date: June 3, 2010
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    21. Two sketches of uniforms for servers for a man and woman. Both are holding trays and wearing aprons.

      Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor

      • Date: July 18, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006.

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    23. Front cover of an exhibition pamphlet. It has a brown-ish streak down the middle and a red cross at the top center.

      M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Exhibit

      • Date: July 30, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Thirty-six years ago today, M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Wounds opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the response was overwhelming.

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