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  1. NMAI Architectural Plan, April, 2001, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accessio

    Digital Dilemma: Preserving Computer Aided Design (CAD) Files

    • Date: December 1, 2011
    • Description: Smithsonian Institution museums, buildings, electronic records preservation, CAD files, PDF/E

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    Them Bones

    • Date: April 27, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Look at enough photographs and it’s inevitable that, at some point, you’ll find yourself pondering mortality and photography’s relationship to death. Because the medium so effectively captures fragments of lives, events, and data that have come and gone, you’re always looking at and trying to make sense of something that’s over, finished, part of the past. Writers—particularly

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  5. GIF of someone navigating the introduction page of the web exhibition. It includes a graphic of photographs of people in black-and-white and a portrait painting of James Smithsonian in color.

    Introducing Smithson to Smithsonian

    • Date: August 10, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: As the Smithsonian geared up to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Libraries and Archives decided to revisit the online exhibition From Smithsonian to Smithsonian, created a quarter of a century ago. Today, on the Smithsonian’s birthday, we are pleased to celebrate the launch of a new, refreshed and greatly expanded web exhibition, Smithson to Smithsonian.

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  7. E. A. Goldman near Porto Bello, Panama, c. 1912, Seth Meek, photographer, Field Museum of Natural History Archives, neg. no. 38659.

    Connecting the Oceans: 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal

    • Date: August 14, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: 100 years ago in August of 1914, the Panama Canal opened to commercial shipping. Smithsonian scientists knew the canal would create major environmental changes and have spent the last 100 years documenting them.

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  9. How Many Objects does the Smithsonian Have?

    • Date: January 25, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12123,size=250,left]It is a simple answer really: We counted. From 1978 to 1983, the Smithsonian undertook a comprehensive inventory of its collections. It was the first time the Smithsonian had ever tried to count each object in its collections and it was a massive task. Over five years, staff from every museum and research center spent thousands of

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  11. No. 40. Crew member preparing plant specimens for Smithsonian, off the east coast of Greenland, 1936. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007231, Image no. SIA2012-0660

    Another Milestone Met: Reminiscing about the Field Book Project and Looking Forward

    • Date: February 21, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.

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  13. Animated gif of religious figure blessing snakes passing by at his feet.

    Link Love: 4/14/2017

    • Date: April 14, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Breathing new life into medieval manuscripts at Bodelain Library. [via Adam Koszary/Medium]Over 600 new rights-free videos and other media showing embryos, robots, and bouncing water droplets! [via Wikimedia Open Access Report]The Smithsonian is gathering thought leaders in environmental and species conservation on Earth Day for their 1st Earth Optimism Summit, and our own Pam

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  15. A woman wearing gloves holds up a pair of boots. A man in the background is near a shelf of objects.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jennifer Locke Jones

    • Date: April 1, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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  17. Black and white photograph of a village with various structures on a hilltop.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2021

    • Date: July 8, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    One Lens for Multiple Archives: A Pan-Institutional Survey of Born Digital Holdings

    • Date: May 28, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Summary of pan-Smithsonian survey of born digital collections holdings at archives and museums at the Smithsonian.

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    The man, the myth, the lens

    • Date: May 17, 2010
    • Creator: Susannah Wells
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_6524" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Linsey Scott, Intern, and Michael Barnes, Photographer, from the Center of Scientific Imaging and Photography stand in front of the freshly remounted world-record Black Marlin that was caught in 1953 using 130 pound test line by Alfred C. Glascock, Jr."][/caption] I had the recent opportunity to sit down

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  23. A No-Shave November Matching Game

    • Date: November 1, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: In observance of No-Shave November, play our Smithsonian history-themed matching game!

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