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    What price fame?

    • Date: August 5, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Greta Garbo, by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1939, National Portrait Gallery, © Estate of Clarence Sinclair Bull"][/caption] Annie Leibovitz isn’t the first celebrity photographer to become as famous as the subjects she shoots (think Matthew Brady, Edward Steichen, and Richard Avedon, to name just a few).  But in the last few

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  3. A man leans over a table. Camera equipment is in the background.

    Archives Puzzles: National Camera Day Flashback

    • Date: June 28, 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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  5. Exhibit cases In a large hall. A hanging sign reads: “History of the United States.” Visible in the cases are busts, vases, models of sailboats.

    Archives Puzzles: HBD, AIB

    • Date: April 12, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.In honor of the anniversary of the groundbreaking of the Arts and Industries Building, then known as the

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    Looking Death in the Face

    • Date: February 1, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Moseley, Greenwood Cemetery, 1998, by Titus Brooks Heagins, Digital photograph, Anacostia Community Museum, Titus Brooks Heagins Collection, Gift of Titus Brooks Heagins, © 1998 Titus Brooks Heagins, PH 2005.7010.01."][/caption] At one point, early in CNN’s round-the-clock television coverage of Haiti after the earthquake

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  9. One of the enlargements following treatment and mounting. Photo by Michael Barnes.

    Re-mounting the American Bison

    • Date: February 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the

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  11. A 2002 press release about an exhibition at the National Museum at Natural History. It was written and saved as a Microsoft Word document.

    Word-processing files need love, too

    • Date: December 31, 2015
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Word-processing documents are important to preserve as well as other digital items.

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    Digital Video Preservation: Identifying Containers and Codecs

    • Date: July 26, 2011
    • Description: In addition to a rich collection of analog moving image material currently being digitized, the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) accessions large quantities of born-digital video from various hard drives, CDs, DVDs, and websites across the Institution. And just as digitization is a method of preserving moving image content before it degrades on an analog carrier, digital

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  15. Dorothea Dix: Mental Health Reformer and Civil War Nurse

    • Date: March 29, 2012
    • Description: A profile of Dorothea Dix, a Civil War nurse and advocate for the mentally ill.

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  17. Two exhibit cases on either side of a tall panel that reads: In tribute...Spencer Fullerton Baird 1823-87 Secretary, Smithsonian Institution 1878-87.

    Archives Puzzles: Exhibiting Baird

    • Date: May 17, 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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  19. A Window into the Grand Tour: Traveling in the Style of James Smithson

    • Date: December 4, 2012
    • Description: A new exhibition offers a chance to explore the world of Grand Tour travel in the late eighteenth century, similar to that experienced by the Smithsonian’s own founding donor, James Smithson.

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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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  23. The World Is Yours: The Evolution of Life

    • Date: July 21, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “The Evolution of Life.”

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