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    1. Link Love: 12/11/2020

      • Date: December 11, 2020
      • 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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      46638-C or MAH-46638C

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        93-7523-1A or 93-7523.01A

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        • “Christmas Among the Soldiers,” The National Republican, December 28, 1861, page

          Hope for the Holidays: A Civil War Season in DC

          • Date: December 22, 2011
          • Description: First hand account of Mary Henry, daughter of Joseph Henry, about what Washington DC was like during the holidays in the time of the Civil War.

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          84-17810-41

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          • Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

            Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

            • Date: March 30, 2017
            • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
            • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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            3253 or MAH-X3253

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              Behind the Portrait: Frances Densmore and Mountain Chief

              • Date: April 28, 2009
              • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
              • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Mountain Chief, Chief of Montana Blackfeet, in Native Dress With Bow, Arrows, and Lance, Listening to Song Being Played On Phonograph and Interpreting It in Sign Language to Frances Densmore, Ethnologist, March 1916, by Harris & Ewing, Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] I received an interesting

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            • Miniature version of Hopper's Nighthawks with pencils and other office supplies.

              Link Love: 8/11/2017

              • Date: August 11, 2017
              • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
              • Description: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, recreated in miniature with office supplies. [via Colossal]A new project, Great 78, seeks to preserve 78rpm records. [via Internet Archive]Nice! NYPL card holders can now stream movies from the Criterion Collection. [via Gothamist] A floating museum makes its debut this month in Chicago! [via Timeout]Sound maps of protest from the last 26 years.

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            • The World Is Yours: Stars in the Sky

              • Date: July 15, 2021
              • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
              • Description: Take a listen to clips from a The World Is Yours episode, “Stars in the Sky.”

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              Celebrating World Cultures—and Our Own

              • Date: July 1, 2010
              • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
              • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:

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              2003-19519

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