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  1. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives logo with the sunburst.

    Introducing the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

    • Date: December 8, 2020
    • Description: We've got big news! The Smithsonian Libraries and Smithsonian Institution Archives have merged to become Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

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  3. Scanning technique demonstrated by Mattie Woodford, Powell Group film scanner, taken April 1961. National Archives Identifier 7665735.

    Link Love: 10/17/2014

    • Date: October 17, 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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    See Here: 11/6/2009

    • Date: November 6, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="National Air and Space Museum Flight Simulator, 1978, by Richard Farrar, photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder May 1978, Negative Number:94-8320. "][/caption]

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    A Surprise from Th Jefferson

    • Date: January 6, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="221" caption="At the turn of the century, visitors are entering and leaving the United States National Museum Building, now Arts and Industries Building, via the North Entrance, c. 1900, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 8, Negative Number:

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    Link Love: 8/5/2011

    • Date: August 5, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The Freer Sackler Gallery’s efforts to make their large collection of squeezes (paper molds that capture the inscriptions of ancient monuments) into an easy-to-use Web resource received a nice write-up on The Atlantic’s Tech blog [originally posted on the Smithsonian Collections Blog]. David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, talks about “balancing access and

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    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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  13. Colonel Orie W. Coyle Special Collection Photo

    Representation and Condensation

    • Date: July 30, 2013
    • Description: How can archivists of oral histories preserve a true-to-life picture of interviews?

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  15. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

    • Date: June 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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  17. Charles Jones, “Vegetables, Bean Runner”

    Link Love: 10/28/2016

    • Date: October 28, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Beautiful 19th century images of vegetables found at a flea market, by Charles Jones. [via Hyperallergic]Saving Langley Research Center's records, and in turn, American aviation history. [via NASA]The Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Archives Center and Libraries has acquired Jane and Michael Stern's ephemera from their foodie roadtrips. [via O Say Can You

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  19. Female peep with plaid cape standing on seashore surrounded by fossils with black cliff and blue sky.

    Link Love: 3/30/2018

    • Date: March 30, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Women's History Month edition, continued!The story of fossil seller and paleontologist Mary Anning (for whom the "She Sells Seashells" rhyme was possibly written), in Peeps. [via The Last Word on Nothing]A look at the WWI Women's Land Army composed of "farmettes" who went outside the home to address the national food shortage. [via LOC Blog]For 25 cents an hour, less than

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    Link Love: 8/27/2010

    • Date: August 27, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="167" caption="The Mona Lisa, between 1503 and 1505, by Leonardo da Vinci, Oil on poplar, The Louvre Museum."][/caption] Scientists have discovered the secret behind Mona Lisa’s beguiling smile by using x-ray technology [via More Intelligent Life]. And while we're at it, scientists use UV light to reveal how awesomely gaudy the colors of

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  23. The north front of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, during the early part of the 20th century.

    Spooks and Spirits: Stories of the Smithsonian

    • Date: October 31, 2015
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Tall tales and spooky ghost stories from Smithsonian history.

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