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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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    3. Link Love: 10/19/2018

      • Date: October 19, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: The Theodore Roosevelt Papers are now digitized and available online through the Library of Congress Digital Collections. Don't try browsing all at once—there are over 450,000 images! [via Library of Congress][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9575,size=300,center]With the help of ground-penetrating radar, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research has discovered a thousand-year-old

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      See Here: 2/8/2011

      • Date: February 8, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="At the Kenneth Snelson opening, Abram Lerner, left, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, stands talking to Joseph H. Hirshhorn next to an abstract sculpture by Snelson, June 1981, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9600, Abram Lerner Oral

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      It Pays to Be Free

      • Date: March 25, 2010
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Bus Seats, by Adam Gerard, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License"][/caption] I took a stroll at lunch today since it’s that time of year again when the magnolia trees bloom in the Smithsonian Castle’s Enid Haupt Garden. It’s important to catch it before a rain or a big breeze snatches

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      See Here: 6/28/2010

      • Date: June 28, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption=""Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland,

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    11. Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

      • Date: March 31, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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    13. Third Annual National Portrait Gallery Teen Portrait Competition

      Link Love: 10/2/2015

      • Date: October 2, 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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    15. Mary S. M. Gibson, January 1954, Frank J. Gilloon Agency, Record Unit 267: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Records, 1881, 1895-1976, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Women in Humanities

      • Date: March 3, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: To kick off Women's History month, a look at some of the women in humanities represented in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.

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    17. 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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    19. John N. Robinson, His Life and Work

      • Date: September 9, 2014
      • Description: I cannot, I feel, have any regrets about my accomplishments. What comes from art will just come. I don’t feel any need to strive. - John N. Robinson One of my favorite parts of working in an archive is the opportunity to immerse myself in other people’s worlds, to learn more about their stories and experiences. One such person I encountered recently was John N. Robinson, a

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      Wait. Did That Really Happen? Snake Smashin’

      • Date: April 4, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Explore what happened in 1969 when a man brought a hatchet and butcher knife to Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to attack a display of snakes.

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    23. 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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