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  1. Defective Taxidermy Specimens

    Sneak Peek 7/2/18

    • Date: July 2, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Defective taxidermy specimens, previously on exhibit in United States National Museum, circa 1890, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-5802.

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  3. Selection of horns mounted for musical instruments exhibit in the United States National Museum.

    Sneak Peek 6/10/2019

    • Date: June 10, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Selection of horns mounted for musical instruments exhibit in the United States National Museum, 1880s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-8224.

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  5. No. 40. Crew member preparing plant specimens for Smithsonian, off the east coast of Greenland, 1936. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007231, Image no. SIA2012-0660

    Another Milestone Met: Reminiscing about the Field Book Project and Looking Forward

    • Date: February 21, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.

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  7. A man in a suit stands next to skeletal bones that are much larger than him.

    Link Love: 5/3/2019

    • Date: May 3, 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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  9. A woman stands behind a man, in the forefront. Both are standing near a portrait photograph of Abraham Lincoln.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ann M. Shumard

    • Date: April 8, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Ann M. Shumard has worked to develop the photography collection at the National Portrait Gallery as an Assistant Curator, 1979–2001, and Senior Curator of Photographs, 2001–present. She has curated more than a dozen exhibitions and serves on the Smithsonian’s Collections Advisory Committee. #Groundbreaker

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  11. Link Love: 8/21/2020

    • Date: August 21, 2020
    • 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. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2019

    • Date: March 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers this winter.

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    Link Love: 5/27/2011

    • Date: May 27, 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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  17. Bureau of Mines Exhibit at Panama-Pacific International Exposition

    Sneak Peek 5/14/18

    • Date: May 14, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Emergency mine hospital operating room in Bureau of Mines exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, MAH-8186.

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    Link Love: 7/30/2010

    • Date: July 30, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Portrait of a City Marshal by Barr & Wright, 1870-1880, National Museum of American History, Catalog number 77.43.1678."][/caption] Help the Smithsonian ID a Houston city marshal from the 1870s in the picture on the right. The extremely flammable nitrocellulose film used before 1951 led to an estimated 80 percent of silent

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  21. Peacock in the courtyard of Freer Gallery of Art.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2022

    • Date: January 12, 2022
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    Celebrating World Cultures—and Our Own

    • Date: July 1, 2010
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:

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