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  1. Freedom! Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement by Diana Davies

    • Date: January 18, 2010
    • Description: In honor of Martin Luther King Day 2010, we selected images from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage's Diana Davies Photograph Collection. Davies began her career as a musician and became a photojournalist in the 1960s. During that time she documented Newport Folk Festivals, anti-poverty and Civil Rights movements, and farm workers' struggles. Her images,

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  3. Free NASA Posters, image courtesy NASA/JPL.

    Link Love: 02/19/2016

    • Date: February 19, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Don't miss out on getting your copy of these beautiful NASA space travel posters. [via The Drive]GPS art by bicycle. [via bored panda]448 free art books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [via Open Culture]Learn how to archive institutional email from two of our own. [via Library of Congress]A new 3D scan of Apollo 11 reveals astronaut graffiti depicting flight plans, a

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  5. Lambert cylinder featuring

    Link Love: 11/12/2015

    • Date: November 13, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Voices from the past! A treasure trove of over 10,000 cylinder recordings of historic sounds to stream or download from the University of California, Santa Barbara. [via Hyperallergic] A powerful new VR experience; location-based storytelling from the New York Times, NYT VR. [via New York Times] Digital provenance comes to life at the Carnegie Museum: New open-source software,

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  7. American Library Association's Promotional Poster with David Bowie

    Link Love: 4/8/2016

    • Date: April 8, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Reading never looked so cool with the American Library Association. [via Open Culture]Libraries join the fight against homelessness. [via InfoDocket]NYPL and The Moth join forces to make their audio more accessible with Together We Listen. [via NYPL labs]Teen art museum programs have a lasting impact. [via Smithsonian.com]A peek into Vincent VanGogh's personal life from his

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    Link Love: 7/16/2010

    • Date: July 16, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: What Not to Wear: The National Portrait Gallery has a dramatic before/after makeover of James Monroe. Check out this great profile of our photograph archivist, Marguerite Roby. The NY Times Opinionator weighs in on in what exactly constitutes an “heirloom,” what this means in a throw-away culture, and the reasons why we save (or try and get rid of) so many dusty old things

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  11. Mr. Rogers and Ambika, July 1982, by Terry Arthur.

    Mr. Rogers at the Zoo

    • Date: June 18, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: The popular childrens’ TV program, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, pays a visit to the National Zoological Park in 1982.

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    Season's Greetings

    • Date: December 16, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_10411" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="George Sprague Myers (1905-1985) Family Christmas Card, c. 1944, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7317, SIA2011-0015."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_10414" align="alignleft" width="178" caption="Doris Holmes Blake (1892-1978) Family Christmas Card, undated, Smithsonian Institution

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  15. The New Year--1869, from Harper's Weekly, January 9, 1869, by Winslow Homer.

    Start the New Year Right with Tips from the Archives

    • Date: January 3, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: With the new year, here’s a run-down of some tips from the blog archives to help keep your digital and physical files and photos well organized.

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    T. Mead’s Splendid Assortment

    • Date: December 14, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_10508" align="aligncenter" width="277" caption="T. Mead advertising circular (click to enlarge), Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305: Accession Number 4414."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_10509" align="alignright" width="226" caption="T.

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  19. When Queen Elizabeth II Visited America's Castle

    • Date: July 7, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Forty years ago tomorrow, July 8th, 1976, Queen Elizabeth II visited the Smithsonian as part of her Bicentennial visit to the U.S. She was welcomed by Smithsonian Secretary, S. Dillon Ripley, Chief Justice Warren Burger, Chancellor of the Smithsonian, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, and public well-wishers while a group of costumed musicians played flourishes and fanfares

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  21. Where is the Smithsonian?

    • Date: January 2, 2014
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The simple question, "Where is the Smithsonian?," has always been a difficult one to answer.

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    The Woman with the Gramophone

    • Date: April 2, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Save Our Sounds Postcard, Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] For the last few years, I’ve had this postcard up in my office promoting Save Our Sounds, a program by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Library of Congress dedicated to restoring,

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