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  1. Black and white photo of older caucasian woman with short hair.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Virginia Outwin Boochever

    • Date: July 11, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Virginia Outwin Boochever, who endowed the National Portrait Gallery's portrait competition, became one of the first female commissioned officers in the Navy WAVES, and was a volunteer at the gallery for 19 years bringing the museum experience to retirement homes. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Link Love: 8/9/2013

    • Date: August 9, 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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    Pardon our temporary departure . . .

    • Date: March 5, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Honeywell, El Segundo, Calif., from the Los Angeles Documentary Project 1980 Susan Ressler, 1949, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts through the Photography Museum of Los Angeles, 1990.38.93."][/caption] This is just a head's up to let our

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  7. 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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    How Many Stamps Does it Take to Mail a Baby?

    • Date: June 16, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="221" caption="Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag, by Unidentified photographer, c. 1900, National Postal Museum."][/caption] Since the Smithsonian began uploading photos to the Flickr Commons, there have been some clear crowd favorites. The photo above, for example, is by far our most popular photo on the Flickr Commons,

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    Hot Topics in Archival Research, Winter 2018

    • Date: January 16, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10581,size=200,left]Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been

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  13. Two exhibit cases on either side of a tall panel that reads: In tribute...Spencer Fullerton Baird 1823-87 Secretary, Smithsonian Institution 1878-87.

    Archives Puzzles: Exhibiting Baird

    • Date: May 17, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  15. Kevin Spacey as President Francis J. Underwood (detail) by Jonathan Yeo / Oil on canvas, 2015 / Collection of the artist

    Link Love: 2/26/16

    • Date: February 26, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It happened. "President" Francis J. Underwood's portrait hangs at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and NPG's Director, Kim Sajet, appears on an upcoming episode of House of Cards. [via Variety]DC Public Library's Memory Lab has your digital back and can help you digitize your 3.5" floppies and MiniDV's. [via dcist]Everyone's up in arms over the Metropolitan Museum

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    Panoramic Panic! A Sticky Situation, Part 1

    • Date: July 29, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: This piece is part one in a series of posts about Smithsonian Institution Archives’ (SIA) paper conservator and interns working on stabilizing a 1921 panoramic photo of air mail pilots and crews that is being moved to the National Air and Space Museum’s (NASM) Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. You can see Part II here. In addition to being the Paper Conservator for the Smithsonian

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  19. Majewski crouches down near two children, who are not looking toward the camera.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Majewski

    • Date: May 19, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    Link Love: 3/19/10

    • Date: March 19, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="216" caption="San Francisco, California, Post Office, Station A, 1895, Unknown photographer, Black and white photographic print, National Postal Museum, Accession number: A.2008-30."][/caption] SepiaTown is a new site geo-mapping historical photos of New York, Moscow, London, and other cities—you can upload your own too. And I just

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    Link Love: 4/15/2011

    • Date: April 15, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Congratulations to the main Smithsonian website, which has been nominated for a Webby Award in the category of Best Cultural Institution website! (Please go and vote.) Mark your calendars! The Library of Congress will be hosting the free public event, Pass it On: Personal Archiving Day, on Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m to provide the public with information about

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