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    Museum Computer Network and the Smithsonian Institution: The Vision

    • Date: April 13, 2017
    • Description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Museum Computer Network, this first blog explores the early interactions of MCN with the Smithsonian.

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  3. Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

    • Date: March 31, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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  5. A man in a gray hooded sweatshirt bends over a textile-mounted piece of art on paper; he is pressing a heated metal spatula against a piece of white insulating paper to soften heat-sensitive paper as a mending technique. The art on paper is supported on a clear acrylic board suspended between two white tables.

    Some Conservator Career Advice

    • Date: July 11, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: So you want to be a conservator? In this continuation of our series on career advice, one of our conservators shares some advice for those looking to explore the professional field of cultural heritage conservation.

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  7. 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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  9. Link Love: 12/21/2018

    • Date: December 21, 2018
    • 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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  11. Book covered in bubble wrap with note

    Link Love: 8/24/2018

    • Date: August 24, 2018
    • 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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  13. A Beaver Corral, Fried Owl, and Pueblos: Adventures with Vernon Orlando Bailey

    • Date: August 20, 2013
    • Description: Examination and conservation treatment of V.O. Bailey’s field book chronicling a 1906 expedition through Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

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  15. A man leans over toward patterned prints on a large document.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: October 15, 2019
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.

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  17. A woman, Mary Jane Rathbun, sits at her desk looking at scientific specimens.

    Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century

    • Date: October 24, 2019
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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    Save Our African American Treasures

    • Date: March 29, 2011
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_12162" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="A participant discusses a lock of hair from a member of her family with NMAAHC staff at a Save Our African American Treasures event held in Detroit, Michigan, by Michael Barnes, Courtesy of The Smithsonian'€™s National Museum of African American History and Culture."][/caption] [caption

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  21. Lightning Fast Legislation for the National Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: November 29, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Twenty-nine years ago yesterday the National Museum of the American Indian Act was signed and the Museum of the American Indian became part of the Smithsonian family.

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  23. Ruby slippers, ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

    Link Love: 10/21/2016

    • Date: October 21, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History needs your help to preserve Dorothy's ruby red slippers. [via Washington Post]The gravedigger from Hamlet, Malvolio from Twelfth Night, and more Shakespeare-inspired Halloween costumes! [via Folger Shakespeare Library]IBM's Watson Supercomputer + Encyclopedia of Life= Biodiversity Treasure Trove Unlocked! [via Smithsonian

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