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  1. Link Love: 2/20/2015

    • Date: February 20, 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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    Live Blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair!

    • Date: October 22, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_9678" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="View of the Archives Fair setup, October 22, 2010."][/caption] We are going to be live blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair this morning and profiling all of the activities that will be going on today. Stay tuned throughout the day to see what's going on. [caption id="attachment_9680"

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    Mary Vaux Walcott’s Wild Flowers

    • Date: March 26, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: In the 1920s, Mary Vaux Walcott published five volumes of her wildflower drawings and donated the proceeds to the Smithsonian.

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  7. China Ligantissima?, Mollusk Illustration, August 2, 1866

    William H. Dall: He had Malacology Down to an Art

    • Date: August 16, 2012
    • Description: Explorer, Biologist, and former Smithsonian employee, William Healey Dall, also had artistic talent.

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  9. Color photograph of a handheld field notebook opened, and displaying a sketch of a rural landscape.

    Exhibiting the Smithsonian Institution Archives: A Look Back

    • Date: May 15, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13754,size=400,center]When people think of a Smithsonian exhibit, they probably don’t think of one filled with documents from an archives! A piece of paper doesn’t grab your attention from across the room, as the Fénykövi elephant or Chuck Berry’s car do. But on closer inspection, handwritten scraps have fascinating stories to tell. They can be

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    Link Love: 10/20/2017

    • Date: October 20, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: You can help the Smithsonian produce a 9 CD Hip Hop & Rap Anthology in a newly launched Kickstarter, and if you kick in $100 or more, you'll get a digital-only track! The material in the anthology was produced with an advisory board comprised of members of the hip-hop community including artists Chuck D, MC Lyte, Questlove and 9th Wonder. [via billboard]The Smithsonian

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  13. Link Love: 11/4/2011

    • Date: November 4, 2011
    • 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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  15. Link Love: 12/28/2018

    • Date: December 28, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • 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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  17. Two men are seated at a table, A microphone and a water pitcher is in between them.

    Celebrating National Radio Day

    • Date: August 18, 2022
    • Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.

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    Link Love: 4/8/2011

    • Date: April 8, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="198" caption="Screenshot from music video "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, Shows use of anti-gravity leaning patent, Courtesy of Wikipedia."][/caption] Umm, this definitely wins the award for my most favorite new discovery in an archive. How did Michael Jackson do that off the hook lean in his dance in “Smooth Criminal”? Apparently

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  21. Disk Diving: A Born Digital Collections Survey at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 13, 2012
    • Description: Details of a physical inventory/survery that is ongoing at the Smithsonian. The project is focused on finding and documenting born digital items at different archival units.

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    Seen From the Edge

    • Date: April 6, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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