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  1. A man sits at a desk in an office. Papers and books are stacked on desks in the office.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022

    • Date: July 21, 2022
    • Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.

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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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  5. Dave Walker, Audio Digitization Specialist, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

    Ask an Archivist: Bring Your Questions Monday, October 27

    • Date: October 24, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In celebration of Archives Month, join us Monday, October 27th, 10am to 4pm ET, where four of our archivists specializing in audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (or electronic records) will be on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about your own archival collections. Questions from our readers in the past have ranged from storing letter and

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  7. Langley with His Aerodrome.

    Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley

    • Date: December 15, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.

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    Records and Information Management Month: The Registrar

    • Date: April 23, 2010
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Did you know that April is Records and Information Management Month? What is records and information management? Glad you asked! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Dan Brown Books, by Federico Filacchione, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Information is collected data, thoughts, ideas, or memories. Records are documents that contain information

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  11. A woman works on a ceramic bowl at a desk. She is holding a tool that looks like a paint brush.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dorothy Briggs

    • Date: May 6, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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    A Surprise from Th Jefferson

    • Date: January 6, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="221" caption="At the turn of the century, visitors are entering and leaving the United States National Museum Building, now Arts and Industries Building, via the North Entrance, c. 1900, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 8, Negative Number:

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    Kodak Girl

    • Date: March 23, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="181" caption="Edmonia Lewis, National Portrait Gallery"][/caption] In Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia (2000), Nancy Martha West describes how the company—marketing the first box cameras in the 1890s—aggressively targeted female consumers, hoping they’d “see photography not only as a necessary component of domestic life but as an integral

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    A New Look at the Smithsonian: Louise Hutchinson

    • Date: September 29, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Louise Hutchinson taught us about African American history in Washington, D.C., and in the Smithsonian itself.

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  19. Takashi and Kumi Sugiura smile at one another as they hold up art and fabric.

    Smithsonian Spotlight: Takashi Sugiura

    • Date: May 5, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Between 1953 and 1980, Japanese conservator Takashi Sugiura restored and mounted Japanese works at the Freer Gallery of Art.

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    Gaining an Appreciation for the Archives

    • Date: December 7, 2017
    • Description: For the past month, I have been immersed in the complexity that is the world of digital archiving as an intern for the Smithsonian Institution Archives. As a digital preservation intern, I have discovered aspects about archiving that I would have never considered previously, such as the processes required to document accessions, recording information for accessibility and

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  23. View of a snow-topped mountain. At the center of the photographs is a tree with trimmed branches and no leaves.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2021

    • Date: April 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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