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  1. Color photo of three staff members standing in the collections processing lab

    Career advice from our Preservation Coordinator

    • Date: May 1, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: This is post is part of our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professional. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Smithsonian Institution Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Don’t be afraid to let us know who you might like to hear from next!What is preservation? This is a

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  3. Portrait of a man wearing a suit with a beard.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

    • Date: July 13, 2021
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  5. Highlights from the 2018 Society of American Archivists Conference

    • Date: September 11, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Here is a look at some of the most interesting presentations Archives staff attended at this year's Society of American Archivists conference.

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  7. Travelog of 1962-1963 South American trip.

    Transcription Beyond Description: Engaging Opportunities and Weaving Webs of Knowledge

    • Date: June 11, 2013
    • Description: From crowdsourcing transcription to building Wikipedia articles, opportunities abound to weave webs of knowledge with SIA collections.

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  9. Tree O'Donnell and Mike Friello of Office of Exhibits Central provide a fiberglass and pigmented polyester resin facial to Uncle Beazley

    Sneak Peek 5/6/2019

    • Date: May 6, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Tree O'Donnell and Mike Friello of Office of Exhibits Central provide a fiberglass and pigmented polyester resin facial to Uncle Beazley, a 22-foot long replica of a dinosaur triceratops, 81-6787-23A.

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  11. Inaugurations in View: A Conversation with Michael Barnes, Smithsonian Photographer

    • Date: January 21, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: A conversation with SI Photographer, Michael Barnes, and his work documenting presidential inaugurations.

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  13. Color scan of a pamphlet cover with black text.

    Maria Mitchell and the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 14, 2018
    • Description: On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her “the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.” Some

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  15. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

    Election Collection: Theodore Roosevelt

    • Date: October 4, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In celebration of our friends at the National Archives’ #ElectionCollection campaign, we are sharing some unique photos of U.S. Presidents in our collection.

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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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    Seeing another world, this one behind the Iron Curtain…

    • Date: May 26, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="Completed SA-2 missile site showing characteristic Star of David pattern, National Security Archive, The George Washington University"][/caption] Strangely beautiful surveillance photographs shot from an American U-2 spy plane triggered a terrifying nuclear standoff, The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In a new click!

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  21. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2009-4133.

    Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds

    • Date: April 7, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.

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  23. Exterior view of the Arts and Industries Building.

    Archives Puzzles: Looking Toward the FUTURES

    • Date: August 16, 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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