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    1. An attendee at “Don’t Rock the Cradle” examines magnetic strapping in the marketplace. Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015.

      Preserve It While You Use It: Collections Care in Action

      • Date: April 28, 2015
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Deborah Bell

      • Date: March 20, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Deborah Bell, Assistant Collections Manager for the U.S. Herbarium at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1975–2014, conserved, documented, and made accessible the collection of five million plant specimens. She participated in numerous expeditions, collecting specimens and training local students and staff. #Groundbreaker

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    5. Plexus Installation, by Gabriel Dawe

      Link Love: 11/25/2016

      • Date: November 25, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Thankful edition!Artist Gabriel Dawe makes rainbows. [via Bored Panda]Our Arts & Industries building, the 1st U.S. National Museum, amazes many who visit the National Mall. Learn more about it!Some key things you should know about American Indians from the director of our National Museum of the American Indian. [via Washington Post]Colombian singer Carlos Vives is donating one

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      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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      Color History with the Smithsonian Recap!

      • Date: April 5, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, over 30 volunteers showed up at the National Museum of the American Indian to write minority women into digital history during a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month. On the to-do list were artists, educators, activists, Smithsonian employees, the first Chinese-American female dentist, and the African-American woman who

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    11. Trees of Christmas brochure, 1977. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 96-001: National Museum of American History, Department of Public Programs, Public Program Records, circa 1977-1994. Image nos. SIA2020-000651 to SIA2020-000657.

      Trees of Christmas

      • Date: December 19, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: On December 19, 1977 the Trees of Christmas exhibition opened at the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History). This was the first exhibition of the Office of Horticulture (now Smithsonian Gardens) and featured trees with handcrafted ornaments representing a variety of countries and cultural traditions.

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    13. Link Love: 10/16/2020

      • Date: October 16, 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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    15. Worn portrait of man sitting cross-legged in wooden chair next to a table with a lamp and books.

      Link Love: 10/13/2017

      • Date: October 13, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own

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      Link Love: 11/26/2010

      • Date: November 26, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    19. Protection of Collections during Retrofit or Renovation

      • Date: May 2, 2019
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: Yesterday, we celebrated MayDay2019 by reviewing the contents of Nora’s PRICE team go-bag, which you can explore in this Facebook Live, courtesy of the Foundation for the Advancement of Conservation!This MayDay post comes to you at a time when cultural heritage disasters on a mass scale are fresh in people’s minds. Paying attention to high visibility events offers opportunity

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      The Failed Zeckendorf Plan

      • Date: November 19, 2013
      • Description: During planning of the future National Museum of American History, Webb and Knapp attempted to move it off the Mall into Southwest Washington.

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      Architect Victor Lundy at the Smithsonian

      • Date: February 1, 2013
      • Description: As the architect Victor Lundy turns 90, we look back at the redwood shade structures he designed in the mid-1960s for the terrace of the new Museum of History and Technology (today the National Museum of American History).

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