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.
Description: Learn more about botanist Mary Farnham Miller who held positions in the Sullivant Moss Society and the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany in the early twentieth century.
Description: To celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring exhibitions from the Anacostia Community Museum in the 1980s.
Description: While digitizing the collection of Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake, I discovered a treasure trove of correspondence that sheds light about growing up as a young woman in the mid-20th century and the story of an intimate mother-daughter relationship.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption=""Japan: Design Today" exhibition organized by the Japan Design House, the Walker Art Center and the Smithsonian Institution, and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, seen here as installed at the Walker Art Center, November 1960, by Robert Wilcox, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="Watson M. (Watson Mondell) Perrygo (1906-1984) sits at a table in the United States National Museum (USNM) Taxidermy Studio working on a bird specimen for exhibition, January 19,1933, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 1, Watson M. Perrygo Oral History
Description: John Lewis speaks at the opening night of the "Right to Vote" exhibit at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), 72-8926-26.
Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.
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