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  1. B&W photoshopped image of creators heads on figures wearing graduation gowns and hats

    Link Love: 12/22/2017

    • Date: December 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The 2018 public domain graduates, including Aleister Crowley, René Magritte, Alice B. Toklas, Pierre Bonnard, and Winston Churchill! [via Public Domain Review]The history of dealing with lack of light in Scandanavia, and Happy Solstice! [via Mosaic Science]Aww, baby pictures of the internet from 1973! [via Open Culture]Close-ups of Jupiter from NASA look like impressionist

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  3. Color photo of archivists in lab coats moving old boxes.

    Link Love: 1/13/2017

    • Date: January 13, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A collections move of epic proportions; the history of New York City is getting a new home. [via NY Times]The Smithsonian American Art Museum offers tours for blind and visually impaired visitors to experience art. [via NPR]The Internet Archive has launched an online news archive for PEOTUS Donald Trump. [via Internet Archive]The Digital Public Library of America launched an

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  5. Cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. 2013 (Diana Alvarenga)

    Link Love: 3/29/13

    • Date: March 29, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly blog post with favorite links.

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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. 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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  11. Pink backpack, field notes notebooks, microphone, audio recorder, and guides on recording oral histories

    Link Love: 6/29/2018

    • Date: June 29, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The University of North Carolina at Chapel wants to make archiving more accessible with Archivist in a Backpack. [via Hyperallergic]The Field Book Project wrapped up May 31 with a contribution of 517,000 pages of field books to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Internet Archive! [via BHL Blog]Some lessons learned from archiving Lubalin's Radical 60's magazines. [via AIGA's

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  13. The Lucius D. Copeland steam tricycle in front of the Carriage Porch of the nort

    Smithsonian History/Map Mashup on Historypin

    • Date: October 4, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  15. The Smithsonian's 1st female employee, librarian Jane Turner (no picture of Turner exists), was in charge of the library and also oversaw the distribution & exchange of scientific publications with 1,744 institutions in 26 countries. #Groundbreaker

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jane Turner

    • Date: April 20, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Ths Smithsonian's 1st female employee, librarian Jane Turner (no picture of Turner exists), was in charge of the library and also oversaw the distribution & exchange of scientific publications with 1,744 institutions in 26 countries. #Groundbreaker

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  17. Eucosma ragonoti barnesiana Dyar, 1903, Collected by Harrison G. Dyar, National Museum of Natural History.

    The Impossible Case of Harrison G. Dyar

    • Date: May 12, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Starting tomorrow through next week, we will be digging into the life of entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929). Dyar was honorary custodian of the Smithsonian's United States National Museum's collection of Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, etc.) for more than thirty years. As a scientist, Dyar was noted for his work concerning mosquito-borne diseases. He also developed a

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  19. Attendees of the Field Notes Edit-a-Thon 2013, by Geraldshields11

    Field Notes Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

    • Date: June 27, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: This is a summary of the Smithsonian Institution Archives' 3rd Wikipedia edit-a-thon on the scientific field books in the Archives’ collections

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  21. Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954), Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1

    Found: Two People in the Flickr Commons!

    • Date: January 16, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The story of how an 2 unidentified portraits in the Archives' collection was identified with the help of Flickr users.

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  23. Black ink drawing of man & woman with symbols to the left

    Link Love: 5/19/2017

    • Date: May 19, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: An early infographic explaining Earth in case of chance alien encounters, from 1972! [via Co.Design]A peek at the the 1st weather dataset collected by the Smithsonian in the late 19th century, and what it means about archival practices around data. [via Process History]How Chuck Berry's bright red Cadillac almost didn't make it to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African

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