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  1. A Victorian Re-touch, courtesy PetaPixel.

    Link Love: 8/27/2015

    • Date: August 28, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Photshopping, Victorian-style. [via PetaPixel]A suitable home for an automotive archive; the General Motors historic carriage factory, Durant-Dort Factory One. [via Today's Motor Vehicles]New to the official Oxford Dictionary lexicon; manspreading, MacGyver, and Awesomesauce. [via InfoDocket]A massive treasure-trove of historic maps is now mobile! [via InfoDocket]50 years of

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    Donkeys and Alpacas and Cows Oh My!

    • Date: May 12, 2011
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Silver Fox Rabbit at the Kid's Farm, 2008, by Meghan Murphy, National Zoological Park. "][/caption] Five years in the making, the Kid's Farm at the National Zoological Park opened in June 2004.

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  5. A woman stands near a table that children are working on.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Laura L. McKie

    • Date: April 24, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Laura L. McKie, Assistant Director for Education, 1987–2001, planned, coordinated, and conducted educational activities at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She began her career with the museum as a docent in 1969, and in 1971, she was hired as an Anthropology Education Specialist . #Groundbreaker

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  7. This satellite image was captured by DigitalGlobe’s GeoEye-1 satellite on October 6, 2014. Credit: Portrait by artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada, commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery; Satellite image collected by DigitalGlobe.

    Link Love: 10/24/2014

    • Date: October 24, 2014
    • 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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  9. Black and white image of a woman from the shoulders up.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Louise Daniel Hutchinson

    • Date: August 22, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Louise Daniel Hutchinson (1928-2014) was founding Research Director at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, now the Anacostia Community Museum, and was a pioneer in both oral and community history. #Groundbreaker.

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  11. Mutchler stands in front of an exhibit space at NMNH.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sheila Mutchler

    • Date: March 31, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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  13. Holiday table with silver utensils and star-shaped cake

    Link Love: 12/30/2016

    • Date: December 30, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: One of the oldest photo archives, the George Eastman House, recently published a quarter million photos online. [via Hyperallergic]A groundbreaking astrophysicist, Vera Rubin, who confirmed the existence of dark matter, died at 88. [via NPR]How NOT to preserve a digital archive. [via Preservica]What does Star Wars have to do with digital preservation? The Data Formats of Star

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  15. A man in a suit and hat stares directly at the camera, holding a fish and a net. Trees and a body of water is visible in the background.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: January 29, 2019
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  17. Paleoanthropologist, Briana Pobiner, studies the evolution of human carnivory and is leading a National Science Foundation project to provide teachers with better materials that use human examples to teach evolution in AP high school biology classes. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Briana Pobiner

    • Date: November 19, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Paleoanthropologist, Briana Pobner, studies the evolution of human carnivores and is leading a National Science Foundation project to provide teachers with better materials that use human examples to teach evolution in AP high school biology classes. #Groundbreaker

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    Link Love: 1/29/2010

    • Date: January 29, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="212" caption="Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man, 1840, by Hippolyte Bayard, Direct positive print, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] Photo Trivia I Didn’t Know: Hippolyte Bayard’s Self-portrait as a Drowned Man was protest about what he considered an unfair lack of recognition as photography's inventor [via @GettyMuseum] “Past the

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    Link Love: 12/26/2014

    • Date: December 26, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A find for early animation - Archivists at Norway's National Library discovered a missing animation film, Empty Socks, about Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a Disney precursor to Mickey Mouse. [via The National Library of Norway]A fascinating look at the workshop of Kenji Yamaguchi, a National Geographic employee who builds camera contraptions for their photographers. [via Proof,

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    Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

    • Date: June 16, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Since The Bigger Picture began in early 2009, I’ve written a number of posts about what might be called camera traps, situations where cameras are installed to collect evidence of one kind of unusual or unwanted behavior or another. Red light cameras are a controversial example; across the country and on an almost daily basis, local municipalities and motorists argue about

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