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    Coping With Stuff, Down Here and Up There

    • Date: September 16, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: We’ve all got storage issues to confront. And when we do, some people take great pleasure in getting things organized and others get headaches. A small percentage descend into madness, while an equally small group see and then seize the business opportunities that are generated by the need to keep life, things, and information under control. Over the past few weeks, the

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  3. Drawing of Cyproinoid with green, blue, orange, and yellow watercolors. Small labels are written in the corners of the paper.

    Archives Puzzles: Nineteenth-Century Watercolors

    • Date: July 12, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: 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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  5. The wording over the light blue poster is:

    MayDay as Earth Day

    • Date: April 30, 2020
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: As I write this crossover Preservation Week/MayDay post so close to Earth Day 2020 (the fiftieth anniversary), stunning news continues to break across the globe due to the coronavirus. Shining through the fog of worry, there have been surprising gains in a period of forced inactivity due to reduced emissions, such as record-breaking solar energy capture in Germany, and cleaner

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  7. Hypsometer sketch featured in a book.

    Joseph Henry Hypes Hypsometers

    • Date: October 29, 2019
    • Description: Although initially skeptical about the effectiveness of the hypsometer, Secretary Joseph Henry soon recognized the value of the instrument, which he discovered from his colleagues in the scientific field.

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  9. A soot-covered disc has four sections labeled “control,” “dry,” “water,” and “isopropanol” in clockwise order. A soot sponge was applied in each area with the appropriate solvent. There is a stark difference between the cleanliness of the control area and the other three areas.

    Burn This Disc: Treating Fire-Affected Optical Discs, Part II

    • Date: October 7, 2021
    • Description: This is part two of three in a series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. This month, we’re focusing on cleaning tests.

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  11. Here at the Smithsonian: Art Conservation

    • Date: January 26, 2021
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Check out these two newly-available clips from Here At The Smithsonian!

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  13. Smithsonian employees hanging Christmas ornaments, 1977

    Tis the Season at the Smithsonian

    • Date: December 20, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: How the Smithsonian celebrated the holidays in 1977, and what traditions continue today!

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  15. Someone holds a wax cylinder up to the camera. Other objects are on a cart.

    Coming Soon! Our New Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative

    • Date: April 13, 2021
    • Description: We’re excited to announce a new Smithsonian initiative to support the preservation of Smithsonian audiovisual collections!

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    The Archives’ Hidden Women

    • Date: March 15, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the

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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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  21. Brigadier General Adolphus Washington Greely

    Miscellaneous Adventures in Ballooning

    • Date: August 2, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures finds photos of war balloons used by the US Army Signal Corps.

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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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