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    1. Taking a sample of mold.

      Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack

      • Date: July 26, 2016
      • Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.

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    3. Brigadier General Adolphus Washington Greely

      Miscellaneous Adventures in Ballooning

      • Date: August 2, 2016
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures finds photos of war balloons used by the US Army Signal Corps.

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      Hindsight is 20/20: Revisiting Paper Treatments From Twenty Years Ago

      • Date: April 28, 2011
      • Description: This post is written in honor of Preservation Week, April 24–30, 2011. In celebration of this week, preservation specialists around the world will bring attention to the preservation work going on in their institutions, and inspire action to preserve collections in libraries, archives, museums, and communities. [caption id="attachment_12654" align="aligncenter" width="432"

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    7. A woman wearing glasses and a denim jacket posed for a picture next to a computer screen. She has on hand on a computer mouse.

      Volunteer Appreciation: Marianne Green

      • Date: April 2, 2019
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, we would like to recognize Marianne Green, a volunteer in the Digital Services Division who digitizes and reviews documents, letters, and photographs requested by researchers, helping provide access to our collections.

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    9. Jacqueline Rush Lee's “Anthology,” image courtesy Brooklyn Public Library.

      Link Love: 1/1/2016

      • Date: January 1, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: New Year's edition!10 years of beautiful bookish art from the Brooklyn Public Library. [via Hyperallergic]You can now tour online 9 floors and 85 permanent galleries of the British Museum which includes 80,000 artifacts. [via Open Culture]More good open access news: American Jewish literary news and opinion works spanning 2nd half of the 20th century is now available freely

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    11. The reconstructed Arch of Palmyra in Trafalgar Square (photo via @george_lythe_1/Instagram)

      Link Love: 4/22/16

      • Date: April 22, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Palmyra's Arch de Triumph (recreated) stands again in London, brought to you by 3D tech. [via Hyperallergic]New digital collection available; Cold War archives. [via InfoDocket]A new book of Pablo Neruda poetry found by archivists is about to be published. [via Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the

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    13. A man wearing a headphone-like device sits in a leather chair.

      The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

      • Date: September 3, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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    15. A duplicate of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, on display at the Smithsonian in 1972

      So Where Do You Park Your Lunar Lander?

      • Date: July 16, 2019
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: If you took a trip to the moon, where would you park your lunar lander?

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    17. Three men in mariachi outfits hold instruments and walk. They are wearing hats and their faces are painted.

      How Much is in That Terabyte?

      • Date: December 6, 2018
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: 2018 was a busy year for born-digital collections at the Archives

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      Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude

      • Date: December 31, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of

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    21. Doodles sketched by John F. Kennedy, 1961.

      Art in the Margins: John F. Kennedy's "Doodles in Dimension"

      • Date: November 10, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: President John F. Kennedy's doodles were given a new dimension by local Washington, D.C. sculptor Ralph M. Tate and the Anacostia Community Museum.

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    23. Ice skaters on Rock Creek on the grounds of the National Zoological Park, c. 1905, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. MAH-15760

      Hockey Weekend Across America

      • Date: February 27, 2014
      • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
      • Description: To honor this year's Hockey Weekend Across America, we highlight some hockey related material from the Archives and the Smithsonian.

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