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      Link Love: 7/29/2016

      • Date: July 29, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The research behind Michelle Obama's statement that the White House was built partly by slaves. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is hiring a beer historian, but it does require you to do more than just drink beer. [via Washington City Paper][WARNING NSFW] 20 bawdy art history tweets for modern times! [via deMilked]19th century

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    3. Another scrapbook, previously disbound, in much worse condition. See a previous archivist’s insert on the right, presumably assessing the book’s condition: “A hideous example of what happens to records which are left to the tender graces of time.” Courtesy of Marie Desrochers.

      Mending Tissues and More: Stabilizing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbooks for Digitization

      • Date: August 25, 2015
      • Description: Intern Marie Desrochers details her experience with co-intern Sarah Casto, stabilizing and rehousing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbook collection at Archives of American Art.

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      Tichkematse—A Great Favorite at the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 25, 2021
      • Description: A forerunner of today’s efforts to decolonize and Indigenize American museums, Tichkematse was one of the first Native American employees at the Smithsonian Institution. His work with natural history and anthropological collections continue to inspire Native and non-Native museum professionals nearly 150 years later.

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    7. Off-white page with various swatches of green and handwritten names such as

      Link Love: 2/9/2018

      • Date: February 9, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Smithsonian Books is publishing a pocket-sized version of "Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours," a 19th-century guide to color for artists, scientists, naturalists, and anthropologists. [via Colossal]The boundary of our known universe has expanded; a population of planets was discovered outside the Milky Way. [via WAPO]The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's director, Kim

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      Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

      • Date: August 3, 2017
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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      From a Humble Beginning: The Smithsonian’s first Internet Domain

      • Date: September 17, 2015
      • Description: The origins of the Smithsonian’s internet domain or address.

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    13. Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953).

      Science Service, Up Close: Elegant Transparency

      • Date: May 26, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A slide show of photographs of laboratory interiors from the Science Service collection.

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    15. 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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    17. Black and white photo of woman posing with Elmo puppet.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Ellen Roney Hughes

      • Date: April 26, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Cultural historian, Dr. Ellen Roney Hughes, National Museum of American History, was a nominating committee member for the Women's Sports Hall of Fame and procured Muhammad Ali's robe and gloves from his "Rumble in the Jungle" fight against George Foreman for the museum. #Groundbreaker

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    19. William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

      Election Collection: William Howard Taft

      • Date: October 11, 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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    21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

      Election Collection: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

      • Date: October 25, 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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    23. Black and white photograph of two young boys sweeping sidewalk in front of museum entrance.

      Fifty Years and Many More to Come!

      • Date: September 12, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that

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