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  1. A boy and a girl harness a prop mule in an exhibit. The boy is in a wheelchair.

    Hands On. Hands Off.

    • Date: December 14, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Will such things as the Hands History Room ever exist again?

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    Felix Nadar

    • Date: April 17, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="333" caption="Portrait of Felix Nadar (1820-1910), Photographer and Aeronautical Scientist, Unidentified Photographer, Unidentified Photographer, Smithsonian Institution Libraries"][/caption] In response to our recent Flickr Commons set highlighting women in science, Erin, our colleague from Smithsonian Libraries, did some deeper

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    Link Love: 4/18/2014

    • Date: April 18, 2014
    • 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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    From Defense to Decoration: the Renwick Gallery in the Civil War

    • Date: August 22, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  9. Brightly colored pink bird with long bill alongside more plainly colored, smaller bird lifting leg.

    Link Love: 8/25/2017

    • Date: August 25, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: 435 high resolution book plates of gorgeous illustrations from Audubon's The Birds of America are now available for free download! [via Hyperallergic]And after you're done with the plates, check out peacock feathers under a high magnification lens, by artist Waldo Nell. [via Wired]University students are working to save the remaining copies of a black-owned newspaper, The

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  11. Black and white photograph of Massey.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mary E. Massey

    • Date: March 10, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: From 1967 to 1991, Mary E. Massey broke barriers for women at the Smithsonian by demonstrating her skills in spaces typically reserved only for men. Though Massey arrived at the Smithsonian as an elevator operator, by her retirement, she was the building manager for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. In a column reserved for the Smithsonian

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  13. Rafinesque’s drawings of tortoises observed along the Ohio River, 1818.

    Link Love: 4/13/2012

    • Date: April 13, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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  15. Five Smithsonian employees provide answers to the question: What is your family’s signature Thanksgiving dish?

    The Smithsonian Point of View: Pumpkin Pie, Pez, and Pastrami

    • Date: November 28, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Get to know some Smithsonian staff, from their favorite holiday dishes to their dream celebrity dinner guests, through a former series in The Torch.

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    Link Love: 3/26/2010

    • Date: March 26, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="193" caption="Camel cigarette advertisement from Vanity Fair, 1934, by Unknown creator, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, ID: SIL7-78-03."][/caption] Cigarettes and gardenias . . . The Smithsonian Institution Libraries blog checks out old trade literature on women, commerce, and society. Beautiful digital flipbooks at Mediastorm. I

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    Beautiful Dreamers

    • Date: December 15, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3320" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Haggard Family II, February 2005, courtesy of Sandy Puc’ and the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation."][/caption] When we began work on click!, it seemed obvious that somehow, someway, we’d have to find someone to explore how photography impacts our encounters with death. Many writers about

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  21. Portrait photograph of Mariah Wahl. She has shoulder-length hair and is wearing a dark-colored top. She is standing in front of a door.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: September 14, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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    Link Love: 5/20/2011

    • Date: May 20, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="288" caption="Owney Embarks on his Makeover, photo courtesy of National Postal Museum, Pushing the Envelope blog."][/caption] Owney the Railway Mail Service dog is about to undergo conservation to improve his appearance and will be tweeting about the whole process on his very entertaining Twitter feed. You all know about our passion

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