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  1. Drawing of reindeer sled pulling Swedes with skiers alongside.

    Link Love: 12/23/2016

    • Date: December 23, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: From the look of this 16th Century book, Swedes sure knew how to deal with winter. [via Smithsonian Libraries]A rediscovered Christmas drinking song! [via Fine Books & Collections]Just in time for the solstice, ancient Japan's 72 seasons in a calendar app! [via Hyperallergic]The historic precursor to Amazon's delivery drones (a curator from our National Postal Museum weighs

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    Come Talk to Us Today on Twitter for Ask Archivists Day!

    • Date: June 9, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: As we mentioned earlier this week, today is AskArchivists Day on Twitter. Starting at 9 am EST, and until 5 pm EST today, Smithsonian expert archivists, will be answering all of your questions about archivists, archiving, and archival collections.Come on over to the Smithsonian Twitter feed, and ask a question by adding @Smithsonian and the hashtag #AskArchivists to your

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  5. A person sits at a tables holding up a newspaper.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: October 1, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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    Here at the Smithsonian: Showcasing Women’s Expertise at the Smithsonian

    • Date: March 29, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: This Women’s History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring women and their expertise at our museums.

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  9. Embracing the Crowd

    • Date: April 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: When I started working with museums in 2005, the concept of crowdsourcing was in its infancy. That year, James Surowiecki ‘s book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” was published and there were tiny experiments in crowdsourcing occurring in the cultural heritage sector. There were hesitations and objections about the whole concept within the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum)

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  11. Hot Topix in Archival Research During a Pandemic

    • Date: July 9, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    Revisiting the Construction of the Freer Gallery of Art

    • Date: September 29, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Some new insights from the construction records of the Freer Gallery of Art, celebrating 100 years since groundbreaking.

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  15. Star-Spangled Banner, by Dane Penland

    Happy Birthday USA!

    • Date: July 4, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: On July 4, 2013 the Smithsonian Institution Archives wants to wish the USA a happy birthday!

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  17. 2 visitors observe large head-shaped sculpture with horizontal bands and projection of older visitor

    Link Love: 12/15/2017

    • Date: December 15, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Artist Mathew Mohr has created a 14-foot interactive sculpture that creates projections of visitor's faces! [via Colossal]The Library of Congress has added 64 films for free streaming to their National Film Registry. [via Info Docket]Conservators are using light in the form of Reflectance Transformation Imaging to find Isaac Newton's doodles on the walls of childhood home.

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  19. We discuss strategies to preserve brittle black page albums.

    Ask the Smithsonian, Again!

    • Date: October 4, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    What price fame?

    • Date: August 5, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Greta Garbo, by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1939, National Portrait Gallery, © Estate of Clarence Sinclair Bull"][/caption] Annie Leibovitz isn’t the first celebrity photographer to become as famous as the subjects she shoots (think Matthew Brady, Edward Steichen, and Richard Avedon, to name just a few).  But in the last few

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    Broadcasting Live from the Sun...

    • Date: November 22, 2016
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.

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