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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. A man sits outside on a bench in front of Holt House. Overgrown greens cover the building.

      Archives Puzzles: Holt House History

      • Date: September 14, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This season, have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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      "To Have and to Hold”: Parsing the Legal Framework of the Hungerford Deed

      • Date: May 12, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Now that we know more about the Hungerford Deed, dive in with us as we seek to understand its legal framework and context.

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    7. Bald Eagle, by Peter Daverington. Photo: Camilla Cerea and Mike Fernandez/National Audubon Society

      Link Love: 12/18/2015

      • Date: December 18, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Whole new world - The Audubon Mural Project is a collaboration between the National Audubon Society and Gitler &_____ Gallery to commission murals of climate-threatened birds surrounding the old neighborhood of John James Audubon. [via Colossal]Barriers to entry - The exhibition, Y.C. Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding

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    9. 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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      Link Love: 4/29/2011

      • Date: April 29, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Portrait of Albert Einstein and Others (1879-1955), 1931, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Accession number: SIL14-E1-10."][/caption] An interesting article on the complicated permutations of copyright law and images of publicity-savvy Albert Einstein. Our thoughts are with those dealing

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      Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Man! In a Raincoat!

      • Date: January 11, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_4184" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Obama Billboard in Times Square, New York, January 7, 2010, Courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] Both the media and Times Square were aflutter recently over a photograph of President Obama used without permission on a huge two-sided billboard in midtown Manhattan to advertise men’s coats.

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    15. 2 visitors observe large head-shaped sculpture with horizontal bands and projection of older visitor

      Link Love: 12/15/2017

      • Date: December 15, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Artist Mathew Mohr has created a 14-foot interactive sculpture that creates projections of visitor's faces! [via Colossal]The Library of Congress has added 64 films for free streaming to their National Film Registry. [via Info Docket]Conservators are using light in the form of Reflectance Transformation Imaging to find Isaac Newton's doodles on the walls of childhood home.

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      With Eyes (and Other Data Receptors) Open Wide

      • Date: May 18, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: In a storm of reporting, hundreds of articles published online and in print over the past couple of days, have focused attention on a story that touched on issues both photographic and archival.

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      Rosa Parks' Archive and Some Controversies Around It...

      • Date: August 8, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

      • Date: January 9, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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    23. Scan of a 1938 Washington Post article.

      Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian

      • Date: April 26, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August

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