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    1. Examples of #museolutions on Twitter.

      Link Love: 1/6/2012

      • Date: January 6, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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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    3. A botanical illustration by Frederick Andrew Walpole recently recovered.

      Link Love: 12/23/2011

      • Date: December 23, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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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    5. Link Love: 10/18/2019

      • Date: October 18, 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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    7. Superman in

      Link Love: 4/25/2016

      • Date: March 25, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A secret trash archive in New York City's Sanitation Department? [via Atlas Obscura]MoMA released 65,000 works of early 20th century modernists online. [via Open Culture]NOT for lunchtime browsing; the Mütter museum's new website gives you a close look at diseased bodies and "terrifying surgical instruments." [via Mental Floss]The Library of Congress is focusing on preserving

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    9. Richard Jones House

      Link Love: 8/12/2016

      • Date: August 12, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Reconstructing a former slave house in our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via Atlantic]Cheating was common at the Olympics in ancient Greece. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Citizen science at its best: the app, iNaturalist, is actually helping scientists discover new species! [via NPR]Book-lovers rejoice! You may live longer. [via Guardian]Download 1000's

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      Link Love: 3/4/2011

      • Date: March 4, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="Uncle Beazley being unloaded at the Smithsonian’s Office of Exhibits Central model shop, February 2011, Courtesy of Office of Exhibits Central blog."][/caption] Even dinosaurs need their baths… The Office of Exhibits Central gives a behind-the-scenes peek into the dino maintenance of Uncle Beazley—the Smithsonian’s

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      Saving the Smithsonian’s Web

      • Date: August 25, 2011
      • Description: This post is an update to Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig's post “Archiving the Smithsonian’s Presence on the Internet” from September 2, 2010. The Smithsonian Institution has had a presence on the Internet for more than sixteen years. It’s come a long way since then. Documenting the Smithsonian’s various websites falls under the purview of the Smithsonian Institution Archives...but how

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      Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’

      • Date: December 23, 2014
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Software tools are helping the Smithsonian find its early websites from the 1990s on the web.

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    17. Email Users Directory, 2015, Courtesy of David Bridge.

      The History of Email at the Smithsonian

      • Date: July 21, 2015
      • Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email

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    19. Carte Geologique De L'Europe.

      Link Love: 6/24/2016

      • Date: June 24, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Stanford David Rumsey Map Collection now has over 69,000 historic maps available online. [via KQED]Incredible color photos of Martin Luther King, some of which are part of our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via NPR]Great news for geneologists! The Digital Public Library of America & FamilySearch International have signed an agreement that will

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      Link Love: 4/8/2011

      • Date: April 8, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="198" caption="Screenshot from music video "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, Shows use of anti-gravity leaning patent, Courtesy of Wikipedia."][/caption] Umm, this definitely wins the award for my most favorite new discovery in an archive. How did Michael Jackson do that off the hook lean in his dance in “Smooth Criminal”? Apparently

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    23. Portrait of Carl William Schuermann, Jr.

      Spotlight: Carl William Schuermann, Jr., Property Clerk

      • Date: October 28, 2021
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: We're taking a closer look at Carl William Schuermann, Jr., a Smithsonian property clerk with an interest in ornithology.

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