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  1. Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Note electric wiring is on the ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall. 

    The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II

    • Date: July 16, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.

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  3. 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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    Tag! You're Saved!

    • Date: October 25, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Fingers typing, by Simon Steiner, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."] [/caption] You know that sinking, then maddening feeling: you need to find something you’ve carefully put away, but can’t remember where you’ve stored it or how you characterized or labeled it. That common problem, when it’s blown up to institutional

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  7. We discuss strategies to preserve brittle black page albums.

    Ask the Smithsonian, Again!

    • Date: October 4, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  9. Two sketches of uniforms for servers for a man and woman. Both are holding trays and wearing aprons.

    Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor

    • Date: July 18, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006.

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  11. Objects from Apollo 11 bag. Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum.

    Link Love: 2/13/2015

    • Date: February 13, 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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  13. Various media flagged for archiving by the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    New Collections by the Numbers

    • Date: October 27, 2015
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: New Archives collections are trending towards more electronic records, but more paper as well.

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  15. An urn sits in a grassy area. It sits on a pedestal. The base is surrounded by a wood fence.

    Archives Puzzles: yUrn-ing for Spring Weather

    • Date: March 22, 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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  17. Buddha draped in robes

    17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)

    • Date: August 10, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!

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    Bringing out the Animal in Art

    • Date: December 22, 2015
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: On National Visit the Zoo Day, a look at a unique exhibition at the National Zoological Park, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: “Animal In Art,” an exhibit and series of “sketch-ins,” part of an international campaign for the World Wildlife Fund.

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    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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  23. | ˚-˚ | Listen In - Transporting You Back to 1994 | ˚-˚ |

    • Date: November 19, 2020
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity, was one of the inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. The exhibition was a collaboration of fifteen Native American painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, and dancers. The exhibition featured sculpture, performance, poetry,

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