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  1. Star Symbol memorandum, August 30, 1968. Record Unit 319: National Collection of Fine Arts, Publication Editor, Departmental Records, 1967-1970, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Design + Archives: Star Search

    • Date: January 26, 2017
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

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  3. Link Love: 01/15/2021

    • Date: January 15, 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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    Archives Puzzles: Gardening Like it’s 1976

    • Date: March 29, 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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  7. Black and white photograph of a village with various structures on a hilltop.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2021

    • Date: July 8, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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  9. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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  11. Link Love: 03/12/2021

    • Date: March 12, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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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  13. Link Love: 10/25/2019

    • Date: October 25, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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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    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: December 27, 2016
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives Reference Team handles an average of around 6,000 queries per year, and if you us what people have been researching at the Archives recently, you'll get some pretty interesting responses. Although not comprehensive, here's a snapshot of the diverse range of information encompassed by the history of the world's largest museum complex!

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    See Here: 6/28/2010

    • Date: June 28, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption=""Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland,

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    See Here: 8/19/2010

    • Date: August 19, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Visitors viewing "Friendship 7" in the Quonset Hut of the National Air and Space Museum in the South Yard, "Friendship 7" is the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth, On February 20, 1962, Glenn circled the Earth three times, late 1960s - c. 1975, by

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  21. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Hearing the Unheard: the Smithsonian and the Riots of 1968

    • Date: September 20, 2016
    • Description: The riots following King’s assassination in 1968 transformed Smithsonian’s relationship to black history and culture.

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    How did the Smithsonian Respond to the 1918 Pandemic?

    • Date: June 11, 2020
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Masks and endless sanitizing again? What has the Smithsonian done during past pandemics? We’ll look back to the public health emergency in 1918.

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