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    1. Black and white image of Harry Walters, Navajo male, holding a blanket in a museum collection storage area.

      Harry Walters - Director of the Diné College Museum, 1973-2008

      • Date: July 30, 2020
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Before becoming the Director of the Diné College Museum in Arizona, Harry Walters spent three months at the Smithsonian learning techniques for the care and handling of artifacts, including their identification, description, conservation, storage, and exhibition.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Helen James

      • Date: September 26, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Dr. Helen James, Curator of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, studies fossil evidence of birds and developed ways to use modern techniques, such as carbon dating, to understand evolutionary and ecological context. #Groundbreaker

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      Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 13, 2016
      • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
      • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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      Link Love: 1/7/2011

      • Date: January 7, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Intersection of Adelaide and Creek Streets, Brisbane 1893 flood, State Library of Queensland - Negative number: 61449, Courtesy Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] A huge donation and lots of new photos to browse: the State Library of Queensland donates 50,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons [via Resource Shelf]. Thoughts on why

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    9. Two graphics of one large and one small folder. The color of the top of the folder is small but the lower later reveals a map.

      World of Maps Project - Preventive Conservation Actions

      • Date: February 26, 2019
      • Description: Explore our interns’ new techniques for preservation of maps at NMNH: a map transportation tool, a rehousing plan, and training for volunteers.

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    11. Mother pygmy hippopotamus and calf at the National Zoological Park.

      Link Love: 04/02/2021

      • Date: April 2, 2021
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a biweekly 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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      Link Love: 6/27/2014

      • Date: June 27, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    15. 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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      Now that you're unstuck...

      • Date: November 17, 2010
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    19. Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville (1867-1937).

      Contagious Contributions: The Rewards of Asking for Help

      • Date: February 26, 2015
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Update on the continuing and growing contributions of volunteers at the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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      Link Love: 7/29/2011

      • Date: July 29, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: An important part of the museum story that we often forget: how the objects got there in the first place. Donors’ stories often reveal the fascinating and complicated path that object take before they come into the Smithsonian’s collections. Here’s a great read on a family who collected celluloid (plastic) souvenirs, jewelry, products, and knick-knacks, that now reside at the

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      Link Love: 6/13/2014

      • Date: June 13, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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