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  1. NASM Opening Day Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

    Congratulations National Air and Space Museum! 40 Years of Celebrations

    • Date: June 30, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the NASM building with a look back at several of the celebrations that took place there.

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  3. Link Love: 1/10/2020

    • Date: January 10, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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.

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  5. Image from Aberdeen Bestiary

    Link Love: 11/18/2016

    • Date: November 18, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Bonanza! A gorgeous medieval illuminated manuscript from the University of Aberdeen is now online. [via Hyperallergic]Hello, funny face. A Japanese museum of rocks, with faces! [via Colossal]My childhood favorite wooden 'Little People' just entered the Toy Hall of Fame. [via NPR]Want to save your election day newspaper? Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute weighs in.

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  7. Hot Topics In Archives Research

    • Date: July 9, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Link Love: 11/12/2010

    • Date: November 12, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Steven Cohn, the Smithsonian’s Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management and the museum’s representative Industrial Hygienist, tests Owney's fur for arsenic, lead and mercury. Courtesy of the National Postal Museum "Pushing the Envelope" blog."][/caption] More interesting preservation challenges. We’ve covered

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  11. Portrait of Cynthia Chavez Lamar. Her hair is shoulder-length and she had bangs. Her top is black and gray. Her arms are crossed and she is smiling toward the camera. She is wearing a silver necklace with a turquoise stone at the center.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar

    • Date: January 26, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Last week, Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar was named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Chavez Lamar has worked at the Museum throughout her career, from an internship in 1994 to her current role as acting associate director for collections and operations. Between 2000 and 2005, she was an associate curator, leading the work on “Our Lives,” one of

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  13. Link Love: 11/22/2019

    • Date: November 22, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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.

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  15. drawing or engravings of bird heads, The bird is black with a white color on its wing. A fuller sketch is in the center and surrounded by three sketches of bird heads.

    Link Love: 4/10/2020

    • Date: April 10, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: For Draw a Bird Day, Smithsonian Libraries highlights the work of some of the Smithsonian’s youngest scientific illustrators. [via Smithsonian Libraries] [edan-image:id=siris_arc_369082,size=450,center]THE CITY features the archives and museums working to collect documentation of New Yorkers’ experiences during the pandemic. [via THE CITY]The latest in movie recs: historical

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  17. Guard house and cell-block, la Central, Coiba Island, Panama, 1956.

    Link Love: 9/9/2011

    • Date: September 9, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Among the many photos in the Archives' collections are images from the Panamanian island, Coiba, where former Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore, conducted ornithological research. We've featured some of these images on the blog before, and I always wondered about their captions, which mentioned that Coiba was a penal colony.

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  19. The China Clipper flies past the unfinished Golden Gate Bridge and heads toward Hawaii, November 22, 1935. National Air and Space Museum Archives.

    Link Love: 7/18/2014

    • Date: July 18, 2014
    • 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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    Link Love: 8/23/2013

    • Date: August 23, 2013
    • 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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  23. 2 visitors observe large head-shaped sculpture with horizontal bands and projection of older visitor

    Link Love: 12/15/2017

    • Date: December 15, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Artist Mathew Mohr has created a 14-foot interactive sculpture that creates projections of visitor's faces! [via Colossal]The Library of Congress has added 64 films for free streaming to their National Film Registry. [via Info Docket]Conservators are using light in the form of Reflectance Transformation Imaging to find Isaac Newton's doodles on the walls of childhood home.

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