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      Jacob Kainen (1909-2001) Curator/Printmaker

      • Date: January 31, 2017
      • Description: Jacob Kainen trained as a painter at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and experimented with printmaking while employed in the graphics program of the Federal Art Project in the 1930's. Kainen, a member of the New York avant-garde in the 1930s, came to the Smithsonian in 1942 and served as graphic arts curator through the 1960's. His friendships in the New York art world assisted his

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      Managing Distributed Data through Shared Collections

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        SIA Acc. 12-090, Friends of the National Zoo (U.S.), Paw Prints, 1977-1984

        • Date: 1977 1977-1984
        • Creator: Friends of the National Zoo
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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        Matthew Williams Stirling

        • Date: May 2, 2017
        • Description: [view in English]Matthew Stirling desarrolló enteramente su carrera en antropología y arqueología en el Smithsonian Institution. Geográficamente, cubrió un área desde Nueva Guinea hasta las Américas, y sus contribuciones a la ciencia fue igualmente amplia. Educado en la Universidad de California en Berkeley y la Universidad de George Washington, Stirling fue un investigador de

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      • Portrait of William Jervis Hough, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1845-1847, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 2002-32241.

        Legislative Logjam to Kitchen Sink

        • Date: May 22, 2014
        • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
        • Description: In the spring of 1846, after years of debate, the legislative logjam over what the Smithsonian would be was finally broken with compromise legislation by New York Congressman, William Jervis Hough.

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      • Hold on Loosely

        • Date: May 28, 2019
        • Creator: Heidi Stover
        • Description: Whether we love to hate them, or hate to love them, paper clips are a huge part of working in archives. In an attempt to showcase this little contraption, we did a call out to the twitterverse for other archivists to share their collection of paper clips. Needless to say, it was not a disappointment. Now go forth archivists! And remember Clippy will always be there to

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        Taking Care of Our Own

        • Date: September 30, 2010
        • Description: It was brilliant to work at the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) this past summer as a conservation intern helping to restore damaged books from SIA’s Reference Room. This primary research library includes many histories and annals published by the Smithsonian from the 1880s through the 20th century, and in the process of learning different ways to conserve some of them,

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        SIA Acc. 15-037, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2014

        • Date: 2014
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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        SIA Acc. 18-254, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2017

        • Date: 2017
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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          Alice Pike Barney Collection Donated

          • Date: 1951

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          Link Love: 7/7/2017

          • Date: July 7, 2017
          • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
          • Description: The Smithsonian's Folklife Festival is celebrating it's 50th year with 50 Years | 50 Objects. [via Hyperallergic]The collections of the 400 year-old Jewish Library, Ets Haim, are now freely available online. [via Info Docket]70,000 paybills, ephemera, and posters from the Brooklyn Academy of Music are now online. [via NY Times]The woman who signed the Declaration of

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