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    Some Web Developer Career Advice

    • Date: June 7, 2018
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: This is the latest post in our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professionals. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Check out our previous posts, and be sure to let us know who you would like to hear from next!

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    It Pays to Be Free

    • Date: March 25, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Bus Seats, by Adam Gerard, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License"][/caption] I took a stroll at lunch today since it’s that time of year again when the magnolia trees bloom in the Smithsonian Castle’s Enid Haupt Garden. It’s important to catch it before a rain or a big breeze snatches

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  5. Letter to Willem de Kooning from Joseph Hirshhorn, November 15, 1967. Record Unit 7449 - Joseph H. Hirshhorn Papers, circa 1926-1982 and undated. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    The Artist, The Collector, and Quality Correspondence in midst of the Digital Era

    • Date: August 19, 2014
    • Description: Archived correspondence between Joseph Hirshhorn and modern artists Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall bring light to the means in which we communicate artist to collector relationships in the digital era.

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    Is there a place for paleography in archives?

    • Date: January 23, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: As we digitize the Archives’ collections to make them available online, I am constantly being exposed to handwriting from the past two centuries. As a result, I have a deeper appreciatiation of how many different things influence the way a person’s writing appears on the page, things beyond the quality of their penmanship. Writing on the deck of a ship, on horseback or on

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  9. Link Love: 1/25/2013

    • Date: January 25, 2013
    • 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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    Link Love: 12/22/2017

    • Date: December 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The 2018 public domain graduates, including Aleister Crowley, René Magritte, Alice B. Toklas, Pierre Bonnard, and Winston Churchill! [via Public Domain Review]The history of dealing with lack of light in Scandanavia, and Happy Solstice! [via Mosaic Science]Aww, baby pictures of the internet from 1973! [via Open Culture]Close-ups of Jupiter from NASA look like impressionist

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    Too Many to Count

    • Date: September 24, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, c. 1890, Smithsonian Institution Archives."][/caption] One of the things people often want to know about photography at the Smithsonian is, “How many photographs do you have?” with the quick follow-up, “Have you counted all of them?” No one knows for certain, but statistical sampling suggests

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  15. A Conservator Abroad: Paper Conservation in Japan

    • Date: November 16, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Nearly two years ago, I first heard of a course on the conservation of Japanese paper co-organized by ICCROM, the cultural heritage arm of UNESCO, and the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (also known in Japanese as “Tobunken”). Over three weeks, the course offered a first-hand look at the traditional Japanese conservation techniques, materials, and

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  17. An advertisement for packaged air featured in Life Magazine, January 24, 1944.

    Keeping Your Cool: Advertising Air Conditioning

    • Date: June 20, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look back at some historic, pre- and post-World War II air conditioning advertising.

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    Check Out New National Air and Space Museum Photos

    • Date: June 11, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1319" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="AIR TRANSPORT, AIRLINES, USA., 1950s, by Rudy Arnold, National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division "][/caption] As my colleague Effie mentioned back in April, the Smithsonian has been working hard to provide the public with a way to search across the Smithsonian’s diverse digital collections. New

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    Growing a National Museum – the Curators’ Annual Reports

    • Date: May 19, 2016
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.

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  23. Chief Joseph, by Edward Curtis, 1903 (printed 1980), orotone, National Portrait Gallery, NPG 80.325.

    November is Native American Heritage Month

    • Date: November 5, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Please join the Smithsonian and institutions around the country as we celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November!

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