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      The Photography of Art

      • Date: November 27, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    3. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

      The Life Work of Smillie

      • Date: July 15, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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    5. Black and white photograph of two young boys sweeping sidewalk in front of museum entrance.

      Fifty Years and Many More to Come!

      • Date: September 12, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that

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      Pardon our temporary departure . . .

      • Date: March 5, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Honeywell, El Segundo, Calif., from the Los Angeles Documentary Project 1980 Susan Ressler, 1949, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts through the Photography Museum of Los Angeles, 1990.38.93."][/caption] This is just a head's up to let our

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      Archives Month Blogathon Starts Today

      • Date: October 1, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    11. Clipping from EBONY September 1990 issue, page 92 featuring photographs of people at the Field to Factory exhibit installation in Anchorage, Alaska.

      The Women Behind the "Field to Factory" Exhibition

      • Date: October 6, 2022
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Current headlines about war and the impact of forced migration on women are stark reminders of historic migrations and how women adapted and took on new roles.In 1987, Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration 1915-1940 premiered at the National Museum of American History.

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    13. Effie Kapsalis pictured with Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Effie Kapsalis

      • Date: December 20, 2022
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Digital strategist Effie Kapsalis was dedicated to building bridges between Smithsonian collections and audiences. In a Smithsonian career spanning nearly twenty years, Effie mobilized her colleagues to share more diverse stories, break down barriers to access, and fight for gender and racial equity in the cultural heritage sphere. Sadly, we lost Effie on December 11, 2022.

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    15. Two photographs of a man wearing a fur coat. The hood is on in the left photo.

      Smithsonian Collections, But Make It Fashion: An Archival Mystery Solved

      • Date: June 30, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: For Social Media Day, we’re recapping how a Facebook follower solved an archival mystery by giving a name to our most popular “unidentified male model.”

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    17. Mary F. Miller’s handwriting on a document that lists all of the Vermont Mosses she collected in 1904.

      Mary Farnham Miller, A Lifelong Botanist

      • Date: August 17, 2021
      • 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.

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    19. Rewinding American Archives Month: #ArchivesAVTakeover

      • Date: November 5, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This American Archives Month, we teamed up with archivists and conservators around the Smithsonian for five Instagram takeovers to highlight the breadth of the Institution's audiovisual collections.

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    21. Travelog of 1962-1963 South American trip.

      Transcription Beyond Description: Engaging Opportunities and Weaving Webs of Knowledge

      • Date: June 11, 2013
      • Description: From crowdsourcing transcription to building Wikipedia articles, opportunities abound to weave webs of knowledge with SIA collections.

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    23. Collage of three images showing disc fragments being placed in a plastic bag, tape being applied to the bag, and the bag being taped the cover of the enclosure.

      Stabilizing Lacquer Transcription Discs

      • Date: October 18, 2018
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Improved physical housing is one step you can take to help extend the life of your audiovisual media. Take a look at the new housing for lacquer transcription disc recordings from The World is Yours radio programs.

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