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    1. Records Shed Light on How Exhibitions Come to Life

      • Date: May 28, 2013
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Planning a museum or gallery exhibition takes a lot of work as seen through exhibition records that contain images, layouts, object labels, memos, and other important materials.

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    3. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

      Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

      • Date: December 10, 2019
      • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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    5. Visitors viewing transparent woman at the opening of the Hall of Health

      The Hall of Health and the Exhibits Modernization Program

      • Date: December 15, 2016
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: In the 1950s US National Museum staff revitalized exhibits across the Smithsonian, completely transforming the Arts & Industries Building.

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    7. 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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    9. Wiki Loves Monuments

      Link Love: 9/16/2016

      • Date: September 16, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Lend a hand to "Wiki Loves Monuments" to improve Wikipedia articles about U.S. historic sites. The Banned Book Handbook, 2016 edition. [via Info Docket]Didn't get tickets to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum opening? You can still attend the surrounding festival featuring The Roots and Public Enemy! [via NY Times]The first

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      ‘Oh, I’m Glad That’s on the Mall’: NMAAHC Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary

      • Date: September 23, 2021
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: The National Museum of African American History and Culture marks its fifth anniversary.

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    13. Vertically oriented poster of abstract fabric in blue, orange, pink, and white.

      A Look into NCFA Exhibition Posters

      • Date: October 24, 2017
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has undergone many name changes over the years. One of these – the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) – was in use from 1937 to 1980. During this time, the NCFA underwent several exciting changes. After years of being housed in multiple locations and several failed attempts to build a permanent building, the collection moved to

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      100 Years of the Natural History Building

      • Date: June 17, 2010
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="U.S. National Museum, May 3, 1917, seen from the National Mall, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 45, Box 79, Folder: 10, Neg. SIA2009-2203."][/caption] As part of my work as the historian for the history of the Smithsonian, I’ve been working for the past year on

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    17. The Star Trek starship Enterprise Studio Model being removed from the lower level of the National Air and Space Museum Shop, by Mark Avino, National Air and Space Museum, image number WEB14418-2014.

      Link Love: 9/19/2014

      • Date: September 19, 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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    19. Black and white photo of man wearing military style helmet

      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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    21. Charles Jones, “Vegetables, Bean Runner”

      Link Love: 10/28/2016

      • Date: October 28, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Beautiful 19th century images of vegetables found at a flea market, by Charles Jones. [via Hyperallergic]Saving Langley Research Center's records, and in turn, American aviation history. [via NASA]The Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Archives Center and Libraries has acquired Jane and Michael Stern's ephemera from their foodie roadtrips. [via O Say Can You

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    23. Portrait of a woman sitting. She is wearing a bonnet. The image is framed in an orange oval inside a gold frame. The work is labeled,

      Link Love: 7/12/2019

      • Date: July 12, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • 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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