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  1. Photographer Michael Barnes and his copy stand setup.

    Board of Regents: Providing Guidance to the Stewards of the National Collections

    • Date: September 8, 2016
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: With the help of digital volunteers, we will make over a century’s worth of Smithsonian Board of Regents Meeting Minutes searchable, via the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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  3. A large room with projections on the floor and walls with figure lining the side walls.

    Link Love: 4/27/2018

    • Date: April 27, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: You can now step inside a Klimt painting in these large-scale immersive environments brought to you by projection technology. [via Artsy]Don't be surprised if you encounter an inquisitive robot on your next visit to the Smithsonian. [via Digital Trends]U.S. National Archives is now publishing a public dashboard which logs any notices received of unauthorized records

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    Link Love: 5/7/2010

    • Date: May 7, 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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  7. Aerial View of U.S. Capitol, c. 1917 - 1934, Boston Public Library, Image ID 08_06_008683.

    Link Love: 1/8/16

    • Date: January 8, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Aerial images of Washington D.C. from the Boston Public LIbrary. [via Ghosts of DC]Digital maps from University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab and Stamen Design showing social, political, and economic movements in America. [via Smithsonian Magazine]How do you move over 800 space and aviation models? [via Air Space Blog]Perhaps forecasting a new fashion trend, "Design a

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  9. Trees of Christmas brochure, 1977. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 96-001: National Museum of American History, Department of Public Programs, Public Program Records, circa 1977-1994. Image nos. SIA2020-000651 to SIA2020-000657.

    Trees of Christmas

    • Date: December 19, 2019
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: On December 19, 1977 the Trees of Christmas exhibition opened at the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History). This was the first exhibition of the Office of Horticulture (now Smithsonian Gardens) and featured trees with handcrafted ornaments representing a variety of countries and cultural traditions.

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  11. Colorful white translucent salamander with 6 purplish tendrils protruding from its head.

    Link Love: 11/24/2017

    • Date: November 24, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A salamander, the axolotl, found in Mexico that once numbered in the 6000s/square kilometer is now down to 35. [via Scientific American]As we know, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has a lot of gorgeous images of natural specimen, in fact over 2 million of them, and it includes some from the Archives! [via Open Culture]Beatles fans, John Lennon's stolen diary was recovered by

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  13. Purple/pink animated gif of nature scene with moon in the sky showing line connecting partial moon which designates south.

    Link Love: 9/1/2017

    • Date: September 1, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Memorable animated gifs for the directionally-challenged! [via Atlas Obscura]Can't wait for Spring 2019 to see the next GoT? A neural network has written the first chapter. [via Motherboard]The history of toys that have enduring popularity (think Slinky and time will tell on the fidget spinner). [via Inc.]The British Library is considering a single digital portal. [via

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    Here at the Smithsonian: Black Pride at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum

    • Date: February 23, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: To celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring exhibitions from the Anacostia Community Museum in the 1980s.

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    Link Love: 12/26/2014

    • Date: December 26, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A find for early animation - Archivists at Norway's National Library discovered a missing animation film, Empty Socks, about Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a Disney precursor to Mickey Mouse. [via The National Library of Norway]A fascinating look at the workshop of Kenji Yamaguchi, a National Geographic employee who builds camera contraptions for their photographers. [via Proof,

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    Link Love: 12/31/2010

    • Date: December 31, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="Stereo Images (Precipitating Snow) obtained using a Low Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope (LT-SEM) that is located in the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in the Electron Microscopy Unit, Beltsville Maryland, Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture."][/caption] We have old-school photos of snow at the

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  21. C-SPAN screenshot of Kilkenny from 2003.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Niani Kilkenny

    • Date: February 17, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    Sybil Hamlet’s History of the National Zoo

    • Date: May 17, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that the first beaver came to the National Zoological Park in 1894? Or that the first animals on the official zoo grounds were two Indian Elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust? Surely, you knew that the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok donated an albino Asiatic turtle to the National Zoo in 1966? You didn’t know that? Well, thanks to the work of Sybil Hamlet in 1985, you can now

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