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  1. A Glimpse into the Past: A look at the contents of an early 20th century diary

    • Date: August 13, 2013
    • Description: In conservation it can be easy to overlook the content of an item and just get on with the treatment. Here is a case where overlooking the content was simply not possible.

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  3. Flickr user Penny Richards helps identify image.

    Un-Locke the Mystery

    • Date: March 13, 2012
    • Creator: Susannah Wells
    • Description: Even with help from the dedicated Flickr Commons community, there are still many more images to identify in the Ruel Pardee Tolman Flickr set.

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  5. Link Love: 9/14/2012

    • Date: September 14, 2012
    • 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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  7. Three men in suits standing behind a microphone and in front of a wall of speakers and meters.

    The World Is Yours: Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress

    • Date: August 6, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Listen to reenactments of two articles that were published in the 1936 Smithsonian Annual Report as broadcast during The World Is Yours episode “Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress.”

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    Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian

    • Date: April 28, 2010
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals

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  11. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

    Spotlight: George Tsaroff

    • Date: September 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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  13. Close-up of a photograph of a snowflake with six points.

    Crafting the Archives Way!

    • Date: December 8, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I’ve been inspired by the snowflakes Wilson A. Bentley photographed through a microscope in the late 1800's ever since I first saw them in the Archives. Bentley donated 500 of his photographs to the Smithsonian in 1903 (you can read more about them in a post by Archives colleague, Courtney Esposito). The images capture nature at its most creative, mathematical, and elegant.

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    Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites

    • Date: August 2, 2011
    • Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.

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    What’s in a Name? Uncovering Early Women Computers

    • Date: December 3, 2019
    • Description: We’re uncovering names of some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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  19. The mast and signal flag raised on Marchena Island by the castaways (detail),

    The Empress of the Galapagos Islands, Part 4

    • Date: November 7, 2011
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Link Love: 6/4/2010

    • Date: June 4, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="314" caption="The Amb. Richard B. Parker Photographs contains 200 black and white prints, 481 black and white negatives, and two black and white contact sheets of Islamic monuments in Algeria, Cairo, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, and Spain, 1965-1979, by Richard Bordeaux Parker, Unknown medium, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.

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  23. Saving the Treasures from the Morgue

    • Date: June 28, 2012
    • Description: US newspapers have rich photo archives that need attention to make sure they are around for future generations.

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