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    Looking Smithson’s Gift Horse in the Mouth

    • Date: July 28, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Today, James Smithson’s bequest to found the Smithsonian is considered a wonderful event, but in 1835 when it was announced, many Americans responded negatively. Why did they look his gift horse in the mouth?

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  3. People in suits and long skirts walk around the Tidal Basin with cherry blossoms in the background. The Washington Monument is visible.

    Archives Puzzles: Cherry Blossom Szn

    • Date: March 15, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.Even though it’s not quite spring, the start of daylight savings time has our minds in cherry blossom

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  5. Woman looking down smiling holding up decoratively patterned paper.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Deborah Stokes

    • Date: January 3, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    A New Look at Home Movies

    • Date: May 31, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="I have no hours in the day to watch TV/games. Don't let life go by!!, by National Media Museum, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] From 2002-2005, a unique archive of video tapes was compiled by the Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) at UCLA, with the goal of studying a relatively new social

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  9. A computer window titled DArchInfo with clickable heading tabs labeled Search, Query Results, Clipboard, SQL, and logoutThe first column contains accession numbers for Smithonian Archives born-digital holdings (i.e. 00-002). The second column contains names of format types (i.e. AppleDouble Resource Fork, etc.). The third column is the number of each type of file format in that accession (i.e. there are 93 Acrobat PDF/A files).

    Assessing File Format Risk for Born-Digital Preservation Planning

    • Date: August 3, 2021
    • Description: In addition to physical damage and deterioration of storage media, the technological complexity and dependency of electronic records make them uniquely vulnerable to loss, corruption, and alteration (both accidental and malicious). To achieve long-term preservation of fragile born-digital materials, digital archivists need a plan.

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  11. Young museum visitors with horse and carriage outside the United States National Museum building.

    Sneak Peek 3/30/2020

    • Date: March 30, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Young museum visitors with horse and carriage outside the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, SIA_000095_B67_F16_004.

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    Unsolved Mysteries

    • Date: January 5, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4088" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Lower Rose Window, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, October 2009, by Bernardo Núñez, Digital photograph, © Bernardo Núñez / Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City (left); B-DNA, seen end-on, courtesy of Dr.

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  15. Aircraft Restoration Specialist Pat Williams Works on Aircraft at Silver Hill Facility

    Sneak Peek 11/26/2018

    • Date: November 26, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Aircraft restoration specialist Pat Williams works on aircraft at National Air and Space Museum's Silver Hill facility, July 7, 1977, by Richard Farrar, RU000371, 77-8912-08.

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  17. Exhibit case featuring skeletons of 'Man and Horse' in Comparative Anatomy Hall at the United States National Museum

    Sneak Peek 6/17/2019

    • Date: June 17, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Exhibit case featuring skeletons of “Man and Horse” in Comparative Anatomy Hall at the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, mounted by J.W. Scollick, osteological preparator, 1890s, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-8880.

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  19. Skeletal Restoration of Hadrosaurus Foulkii

    Sneak Peek 7/17/2017

    • Date: July 17, 2017
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Skeletal restoration of Hadrosaurus foulkii mounted for exhibit in the United States National Museum, MNH-3485.

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    What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?

    • Date: April 7, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and

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    Lost and Found

    • Date: August 18, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7871" align="alignleft" width="187" caption="A rendering of the AT&T Building, now the SONY Building, in New York, recently purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum from a newly discovered cache of material from the Philip Johnson’s architectural practice. Photo courtesy Capelin Communications.

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