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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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      Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: September 21, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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    5. American Agriculture Movement

      The Tractors are Coming

      • Date: February 5, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Revisit the Tractorcade on its 40th anniversary.

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      Link Love: 4/11/2014

      • Date: April 11, 2014
      • 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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    9. A man wearing a headphone-like device sits in a leather chair.

      The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

      • Date: September 3, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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    11. Bald Eagle, by Peter Daverington. Photo: Camilla Cerea and Mike Fernandez/National Audubon Society

      Link Love: 12/18/2015

      • Date: December 18, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Whole new world - The Audubon Mural Project is a collaboration between the National Audubon Society and Gitler &_____ Gallery to commission murals of climate-threatened birds surrounding the old neighborhood of John James Audubon. [via Colossal]Barriers to entry - The exhibition, Y.C. Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding

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    13. Photoshopped image of artists new to the public domain in graduation caps and gowns.

      Link Love: 1/6/2017

      • Date: January 6, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: New year edition!2017 public domain graduates! [via Public Domain Review]New Year's goals: champing. [via Atlas Obscura]The not-so-ancient art of diagramming sentences. [via NPR]Hallmark used to bring world renowned artists to the masses. [via Artsy]A parasitic scale insect known as cochineal is behind the "true red" color in ancient art. [via The Iris, Getty]Historian, Free

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    15. Teachers at Smithsonian Teachers' Night 2011, Courtesy of Smithsonian Education.

      Last Chance to Register for Smithsonian Teachers' Night 2012

      • Date: September 24, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

      • Date: April 27, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.

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    19. Records Shed Light on How Exhibitions Come to Life

      • Date: May 28, 2013
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Planning a museum or gallery exhibition takes a lot of work as seen through exhibition records that contain images, layouts, object labels, memos, and other important materials.

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    21. A female conservator looks through a microscope as she conserves a large painting.

      Link Love: 6/30/2017

      • Date: June 30, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: An intimate look at the painting conservation studio at the National Gallery of Art. [via NPR]A newly discovered species of wasp was named in honor of David Bowie. [via Mashable]The Smithsonian is just one of the organizations banning drinking straws due to the environmental harm they cause. [via Washington Post]Can real coral reefs be saved by artificial ones? [via Fusion

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    23. Objects for Preparing Food, exhibition catalogue, 1972.

      Design + Archives: Objects for Preparing Food

      • Date: December 1, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Design + Archives takes a look at an exhibition from the Renwick, "Objects for Preparing Food," from 1973.

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