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  1. National Museum Exhibit & Storage Cases

    National Museum Exhibit & Storage Cases

    • Date: c. 1880s
    • Creator: Unknown
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  3. Photos courtesy Zak Jensen & Andrea Shea/WBUR

    Link Love: 1/15/16

    • Date: January 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Harvard's pigment collection. [via Collossal]Also with gorgeous colors, a 700+ page Dutch book from 1692 documenting "every color in the spectrum." [via Open Culture] A new online exhibit examining what it's like to work in the U.S. on a H-1B visa from the Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center. [via Smithsonian Magazine] Later this year, scientists (including our own

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    92-14013-1 or 92-14013.01

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      Baird's Dream: Introduction

      • Date: June 20, 2013
      • Description: The introduction to the history of the Arts & Industries Building.

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    • Blog Post

      You're Going to Throw That Out? Now?

      • Date: May 9, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Institutions devise all sorts of procedures to determine what kinds of documents to collect, and how to save and archive them. The Smithsonian Institution Archives, for example, advises and works with various museums, research institutes, and offices across the Smithsonian, on an ongoing basis, to determine and manage what will get archived for posterity. But in some

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    • Link Love: 03/19/2021

      • Date: March 19, 2021
      • 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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      WWI: Staff Supporting the War Effort

      • Date: June 17, 2016
      • Description: The men and women of the Smithsonian are the Institution’s most important asset, a fact which was as true in the 1910s as it is today. The staff of the Smithsonian work together to fulfill their mission: ‘the increase and diffusion of knowledge,’ working for the public good and engaging the world. During World War I, this mission expanded beyond academic knowledge to support

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    • Photo negatives of people at Byrd's retirement party. She is opening gifts in a few of the frams.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mabel A. Byrd

      • Date: May 18, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • 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.

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      17735 or MAH-17735

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      • A whale model hangs from the ceiling in an exhibit hall.

        Archives Puzzles: The Scale of the Whale

        • Date: February 22, 2021
        • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
        • 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.

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        Louis R. Purnell

        • Date: August 23, 2016
        • Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and

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      • Design for National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2010.

        An Intern Learns from Those Who Came Before

        • Date: August 16, 2016
        • Description: A brief tale of a Smithsonian summer internship and the experience, knowledge, and change that ensued.

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