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    1. Mitch in his holiday sweater.

      Ch-ch-ch-changes, 2015 edition!

      • Date: November 5, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: It is with sadness that I report that Mitch Toda is stepping down as the blog coordinator. Since 2011, Mitch Toda has been the man behind-the-scenes making sure everything runs smoothly. As a staff archivist, he works daily with the records he takes in from Smithsonian museums and offices such as the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Office of

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      The Smithsonian in Popular Culture

      • Date: July 11, 2013
      • Description: How is the Smithsonian, with its museums full of specimens and research labs full of scientists, portrayed in movies, novels, television, and videogames? Smithsonian staff and the iconic buildings they work in have been portrayed in mysteries, romances, dramas, comedies, and science fiction. Often, the ways that museum curators, explorers, and lab researchers and what they do

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    5. drawing or engravings of bird heads, The bird is black with a white color on its wing. A fuller sketch is in the center and surrounded by three sketches of bird heads.

      Link Love: 4/10/2020

      • Date: April 10, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: For Draw a Bird Day, Smithsonian Libraries highlights the work of some of the Smithsonian’s youngest scientific illustrators. [via Smithsonian Libraries] [edan-image:id=siris_arc_369082,size=450,center]THE CITY features the archives and museums working to collect documentation of New Yorkers’ experiences during the pandemic. [via THE CITY]The latest in movie recs: historical

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    7. An example of a Ryan Gosling Hey Girl museum post.

      Link Love: 12/30/2012

      • Date: December 30, 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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      Joy Over Grief

      • Date: August 18, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Several weeks ago a brown box full of photographs arrived at “The Smithsonian.” Now being that “The Smithsonian” is actually made up of many museums and research centers, this brown box was circulated through several offices before I finally got the call to see if it was something that I wanted. Usually the Smithsonian would rather not receive unsolicited donations. Though,

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    11. Lerner and Hisrhhorn stand in a gallery space.

      An Audio Anniversary: Groundbreaking at the Hirshhorn

      • Date: January 12, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: September 18, 2013
      • Description: The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) was created on November 18, 1989, when President George H.W. Bush signed an act allowing the transfer of the Museum of the American Indian into the Smithsonian to create NMAI. As one of the Smithsonian’s newer museums, the images in this gallery show the evolution of postcard use at the Smithsonian. The NMAI postcards mainly

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    15. “Flat John” Visits the Smithsonian Castle, 2015, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

      Science Service, Up Close: The Microvivarium

      • Date: May 12, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Today’s science museums build on the efforts of biologist George Roemmert (1892-1952), whose “Microvivarium” projected images of amoebas and other microscopic creatures.

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      Introduction and History

      • Date: September 5, 2013
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13828,size=350,right]Welcome to our online exhibit about the history of the Smithsonian and postcards! In this exhibit you will find the history and evolution of postcards at the Smithsonian, general postcard history, and a guide for dating postcards. In addition, the image galleries contain over 100 selected postcards of Smithsonian museums,

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      Appraising Records

      • Date: March 1, 2011
      • Description: All records maintained by Smithsonian Institution museums and units, regardless of their format, must be appraised by the Smithsonian Institution Archives before they can be discarded, destroyed, or transferred to the Archives or the Records Center. For detailed information regarding the Archives’ appraisal decision-making process, see the Appraisal Methodology. The following

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      Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success

      • Date: December 18, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.

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      Link Love: 7/15/2016

      • Date: July 15, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A cook's delight: 3000 vintage cookbooks now available on the Internet Archive. [via Open Culture]A growing online archive of Vernacular Typography. [via Hyperallergic]18th century toilets beget treasures! [via Huffington Post]Space travel plans? You can download the code that took America to the moon from GitHub. [via Quartz]Museums on my bucket list; Japan's museum for

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