Description: August is National Parks Month, but the Smithsonian has celebrated the National Park Service for decades! Enjoy a selection of national parks images from the Archives' collection.
Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.
Description: The first woman to start a bank, Maggie L. Walker, the daughter of a slave, gets a statue commemorating her in Richmond, Virginia. [via WAPO]A pop-up museum in Amsterdam is helping refugees work with their past. [via NY Times]The new Wikipedia podcast, Wikipedia Weekly #123, discusses WikiCite, Wikidata, and how Zotero is getting added to the mix! [via Wikipedia Weekly] Two
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="Watson M. (Watson Mondell) Perrygo (1906-1984) sits at a table in the United States National Museum (USNM) Taxidermy Studio working on a bird specimen for exhibition, January 19,1933, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 1, Watson M. Perrygo Oral History
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Description: [caption id="attachment_8323" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Smithsonian employees attend the 2010 Smithsonian Digitization Fair. Photograph by Michael Barnes."][/caption] For two days in mid-September, Smithsonian Institution employees gathered for a digitization fair to share ideas and hear about some neat projects. Even those who work here are impressed by
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