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  1. The World Is Yours: Early Air Mail

    • Date: June 1, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from The World Is Yours episode “Early Air Mail” and its short reign under the United States Postal Service from 1916 to 1926.

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  3. Adopt-a-Book save-the-date promo graphic. The background is a painting of purple flowers. The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives logo is on the left. The right includes the text: Save the dates Adopt-a-Book Salons.

    Welcome to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book Program

    • Date: March 10, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: We all have the opportunity to support the Smithsonian—come see how the Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book program offers a chance to do so.

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  5. Black circular device with a tape measure and description cards below it.

    The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

    • Date: January 9, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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  7. Scan of a 1938 Washington Post article.

    Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian

    • Date: April 26, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August

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    Old Photos, New Histories

    • Date: May 20, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Square House, Man, Child, and Dog on Lawn, ca. 1855, by Unknown photographer, Daguerreotype with applied color (1/2 plate), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.234."][/caption] Often we are

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  11. Link Love: 12/13/2019

    • Date: December 13, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  13. Screenshot of the Vaccines and US archived website that shows a banner noting it was archived August 5, 2021.

    Another Year of Collecting Online History

    • Date: March 31, 2022
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Changing museum hours and new websites meant another busy year for Smithsonian website archiving.

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  15. Here at the Smithsonian: Planes, Design, and Time

    • Date: August 31, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: As Summer 2021 winds down, we'll take a look at some examples of the breadth of work and collections that are represented at the Smithsonian Institution.

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  17. 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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  19. Washington Monument grounds ceremony at which Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, 1927.

    Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927

    • Date: February 2, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.

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  21. Someone holds a wax cylinder up to the camera. Other objects are on a cart.

    Coming Soon! Our New Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative

    • Date: April 13, 2021
    • Description: We’re excited to announce a new Smithsonian initiative to support the preservation of Smithsonian audiovisual collections!

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  23. Link Love: 9/17/2021

    • Date: September 17, 2021
    • Description: Link Love: a biweekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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