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    1. Black and white photo of 3 seated women and 1 man at reception holding plates and drinking Coca Cola.

      Link Love: 2/3/2017

      • Date: February 3, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The history behind the film, Hidden Figures, from Curator Paul Ceruzzi. [via National Air and Space Museum]Umbra Search African American History now has over 500,000 items from more than 1000 libraries, museums and archives. [via OCLC and University of Minnesota Libraries]A Twitter tribute to Holocaust victims who were turned away by the U.S. in 1939. [via Atlantic]Library of

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      Destination: Niagara Falls

      • Date: July 22, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Niagara Falls, by Platt D. Babbitt, 1854, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Photographic History Collection"][/caption] One of the top U.S. tourist destinations, Niagara Falls has been photographed countless times since the invention of photography in

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    5. Everything I Own

      • Date: February 6, 2020
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Some refer to the Smithsonian as "America's Attic." It probably earned this nickname because throughout its history, the Smithsonian has acquired artifacts, relics, paintings, personal collections, and even hair samples related to the Commander in Chief (yes, the National Museum of American History has a collection of presidential hairs!).With Presidents' Day coming up on

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    7. a progression of 3 images of a brightly lit, round field of light with a dark hole in the middle and a ray of light projecting upwards.

      Link Love: 3/16/2018

      • Date: March 16, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Apparently black holes are not a one-way vortex we assumed. This image from NASA demonstrates objects projecting out of black holes! [via The Space Academy]The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will acquire records of The Academy of Washington, D.C., an LGBT organization that produced nationally-recognized drag pageants. [via Washington Blade]You can vote on

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    9. Edith Mayo, wearing a white or cream-colored pantsuit, holds a 1910s suffrage banner at a parade.

      Revisiting The Right to Vote

      • Date: October 29, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: With the election only days away, we’re taking a look back at The Right to Vote at Smithsonian’s National Museum of History and Technology, 1972–74.

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    11. An excerpt from He is a Negro Still, by Solomon G. Brown.

      "He is a Negro Still": The Poetry of Solomon Brown

      • Date: February 9, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: An excerpt from "He is a Negro Still," by Solomon G. Brown, the Smithsonian's first African American employee.

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    13. 1888 Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States

      Reconstructing William Temple Hornaday’s 1888 Extermination Series

      • Date: March 2, 2017
      • Description: A look at taxidermist turned conservationist William Temple Hornaday's "Extermination Series" highlighting the environmental impact of man on North American mammals.

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    15. Black and white image of African American woman holding her baby, looking out the window.

      Link Love: 4/13/2018

      • Date: April 13, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now

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      The Time Has Come

      • Date: February 8, 2011
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_11359" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup Design for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Courtesy NMAAHC."][/caption] The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER

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    19. The payroll to slaveowners

      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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    21. The China Clipper flies past the unfinished Golden Gate Bridge and heads toward Hawaii, November 22, 1935. National Air and Space Museum Archives.

      Link Love: 7/18/2014

      • Date: July 18, 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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    23. Remembering the Reopening of Two Smithsonian Museums

      • Date: July 1, 2021
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: After extensive renovations of the Old Patent Office Building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture held a grand opening July 1, 2006.

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