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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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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