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    What are You Watching?

    • Date: August 22, 2013
    • Description: How open source helps us save film and video recordings digitally . . . no matter how bizarre the subject matter.

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  3. Portrait of Roxie Laybourne

    Sharing A Love of Birds: Roxie Laybourne

    • Date: January 5, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_308449,size=250,left]Though Roxie Laybourne may be a well-known topic here in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, there is a good reason she is so popular. From good advice to her pioneering career to modern day inspiration, her work offers new insight each time we turn to it. Laybourne’s interest in natural history began long before she began her

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    What Does an Electronic Records Archivist Do?

    • Date: August 10, 2010
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs,

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  7. Example of the previous Archives Site Search results page.

    You Asked, We Listened: Introducing the Archives New Site Search

    • Date: September 23, 2014
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: The Smithsonian Archives is pleased to present it’s new site search functionality.

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  9. Ursula Marvin lies on her stomach to look into ice. A colleague kneels next to her, taking notes.

    100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History

    • Date: January 6, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Geologist Dr. Ursula Marvin studied Moon rocks from the Apollo missions and meteorites in Antarctica. Throughout her career with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Marvin championed women in science. She delivered lectures about her own experiences as a woman in geology and participated in programing to help advance women's careers. She was likely inspired to support

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    150 Years Ago: Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

    • Date: April 14, 2015
    • Description: In New York City when he heard of Lincoln’s assassination, Secretary Joseph Henry returned to Washington for the president’s funeral.

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  13. DC workers evacuate to the National Mall, August 23, 2011.

    All Shook Up: A History of Earthquakes at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 21, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After

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  15. Software showing emails with the word Announcement found in a search.

    Announcing the Latest Release of DArcMail

    • Date: December 9, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The Archives has released its latest version of its open-source email preservation software suite for anyone to use.

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  17. Crimilda Pontes: The Original Designer of the Smithsonian Sunburst

    • Date: March 24, 2020
    • Description: A celebration of the woman who originally designed the iconic Smithsonian sunburst.

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  19. Diana of the Tides’ vibrant colors are reminiscent of paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Diana’s creator John Elliott knew Maxfield and his father Stephen from visits to the artists colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Archives.

    Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time

    • Date: January 25, 2011
    • Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted

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  21. Black and white photograph of two young boys sweeping sidewalk in front of museum entrance.

    Fifty Years and Many More to Come!

    • Date: September 12, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that

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  23. Five CDs and a color card against a black background.

    Glaring Discs: Photographic Condition Documentation of Reflective Surfaces

    • Date: March 19, 2020
    • Description: The challenges of imaging the shiny surfaces of optical discs including CDs and DVDs.

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