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    1. Creating a barrier between the non-archival tube and the collections material.

      Pennywise Preservation: Oversized Prints and Drawings

      • Date: December 13, 2016
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Providing suitable housing for collections can sometimes be cost-prohibitive. When the Archives received a large collection of oversized drawings, a cost-savings approach had to be employed while still achieving an appropriate housing strategy for long-term preservation.

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      The Challenge of Preserving Digital Architectural Drawings

      • Date: July 27, 2010
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_7461" align="aligncenter" width="369" caption="Construction of the National Museum of the American Indian, July 2003, digital photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 06-012, Box 24, Folder NMAI Construction-July 2003, Folder CD_1, # U.jpg."] [/caption] At the Archives, we’ve recently begun working with some digital files of architectural

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    5. A sketch of an exhibit floor plan that notes measurements of objects and panels.

      Adventures in Time and Space: Exhibition Records

      • Date: October 25, 2018
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Transferring, processing, and describing exhibition drawings pose significant challenges to the archival workflow.

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    7. Photographer Michael Barnes adjusting a bird head drawing by Robert Ridgeway on the copy stand surface, 2013, by Ricc Ferrante.

      Rapidly Capturing Ridgway

      • Date: January 16, 2014
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives conducts a test of a rapid digital capture setup using the Robert Ridgway Papers.

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    9. Robert Ridgway sits writing at his desk in his office located in the United States National Museum, Record Unit 7440 - American Ornithologists' Union, Records, 1871-1994, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Neg. no. SIA2008-2291.

      International Migratory Bird Day

      • Date: May 5, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: To celebrate International Migratory Bird Day on May 9th, we will be releasing recently digitized specimen drawings by ornithologist Robert Ridgway (1850-1929.) Ridgway's career with the Smithsonian began in 1864 when he wrote asking for help identifying a bird. As they say, the rest is history. Starting in 1869, Ridgway became curator at the Smithsonian's United States

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      The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Asma Naeem

      • Date: April 4, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery's Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Media Arts, Dr. Asma Naeem, was an attorney and public servant prior to studying art history, and researches the history of technology and the sensorial imagination of both artist and beholder. #Groundbreaker

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    15. Image of a woman holding a book in front of a sign that reads: JUST PUBLISHED. An image of the book she is holding is on the sign.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Elaine R.S. Hodges

      • Date: March 13, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Elaine R.S. Hodges, scientific illustrator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1965–1996, made drawings of insects and other organisms that were frequently used by Smithsonian scientists. She was a founder of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and edited the Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration (1989). #Groundbreaker

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      An Intern’s Perspective on Preserving Scrapbooks and Conserving Blueprints

      • Date: August 30, 2018
      • Description: Preservation intern discusses working with oversize materials in the Archives collection, including information on the creation of custom enclosures, surface cleaning of blueprints, and humidification.

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    19. Bird head drawing by Robert Ridgway, Record Unit 7167 - Robert Ridgway Papers, circa 1850s-1919, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2014-00594b.

      Mystery Diagnosis and the Case of the Unidentified Bird Shadows

      • Date: February 4, 2014
      • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
      • Description: We need your help idenitifying what happened to these Ridgway bird illustrations that appear to have strange smoke patterns covering the images

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      What should I do with all this stuff?!?

      • Date: August 31, 2010
      • Creator: Ginger Yowell
      • Description: Even though the world is becoming increasingly more electronic, many of us still have an abundance of things not created or saved in digital format. Whether it's old letters, original architectural drawings from the house your grandfather built, books, photographs, or home movies on Super 8, figuring out how to store these things can be difficult. [caption id="attachment_7890"

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    23. Invitation to the opening of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on October 2, 1974. Information File, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Design + Archives

      • Date: November 26, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: An introduction to a new monthly series on examples of design found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.

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