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    1. Sneak Peek 8/27/2018

      • Date: August 27, 2018
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: "Information Age: People, Information and Technology" exhibition at National Museum of American History, October 1990, by Rick Vargas, SIA Acc. 11-009, 90-14532-03A.

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    3. An Introduction to Oral History

      • Date: June 9, 2020
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: Explore this brief introduction to oral history based on best practices used in the Archives’ Smithsonian Oral History Program.

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    5. The Business of Slavery section is located in the heart of the Merchant Era in the

      Link Love: 6/19/2015

      • Date: June 19, 2015
      • 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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    7. Rube Goldberg and wife Irma interacting with the machine exhibits and attendees riding a bicycle. Photographs being taken of Goldberg sitting near his cartoons speaking to the press. Also, dinner table seating with the Goldbergs, Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and NMHT Director Daniel Boorstin.

      Do It the Hard Way, Like Rube Goldberg

      • Date: November 24, 2020
      • Description: Rube Goldberg, the subject of a 1970 exhibition at the National Museum of American History, produced thousands of drawings and comic strips, as well as, films, photographs, and over-the-top machines. A true celebrity in his time, Goldberg set standards in political cartooning and contributed to the development of thousands of extravagant and entertaining contraptions that have

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      Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Smithsonian Transcription Center!

      • Date: March 9, 2021
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: Help us transcribe the records of groundbreaking Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake.

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    11. Oil based portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt profile wearing a blue suit and tie, signed Secretary Roosevelt.

      Remembering the Exhibitions Celebrating the Centennial of FDR's Birth

      • Date: January 28, 2021
      • Description: In 1982, the Smithsonian Institution paid homage to the birth of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882, through six new exhibits.

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      The Enid A. Haupt Garden

      • Date: January 20, 2015
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A look at the Enid A. Haupt Garden as it was established in 1987.

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    15. Smithsonian Torch article about the formation of the SI Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee, March 1992. Len Hirsch is pictured, right.

      Smithsonian GLOBE: A History

      • Date: June 6, 2017
      • Description: In celebration of Pride 2017, a look back at the history of the Smithsonian GLOBE (Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Employees) organization.

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    17. Young girl playing a violin with a piano and yellow electric guitar in the background.

      Turn up the Volume - The Electric Guitar

      • Date: March 5, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In November of 1996, the electric guitar, its history and its makers, were the focus of attention at the National Museum of American History.

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    19. Display of a wall of orchids inside the Hirshhorn Museum.

      Orchids and Oral History

      • Date: April 16, 2020
      • Description: Let’s learn about the history of Smithsonian Gardens’ annual orchid exhibit with a little help from former director Barbara Faust through her 2011 oral history interview.

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    21. Spencer Crew, while director of National Museum of American History, at press event for opening of

      Sneak Peek 6/24/2019

      • Date: June 24, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Spencer Crew, while director of National Museum of American History, at press event for opening of "Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s" exhibition, April 2001, by Jeff Tinsley, SIA Acc. 11-009, 2001-3004-37.

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      We’re Digitizing the Smithsonian Women’s Council Records!

      • Date: June 30, 2022
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Celebrate with us as we ramp up to digitize more than 36,000 records documenting the history of women and work at the Smithsonian.

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