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  1. Tractors gather in front of the U.S. Capitol, February

    Tractorcade

    • Date: February 21, 2012
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: The story of the February 1979 Washington, DC tractor rally organized by the American Agriculture Movement to change agriculture policy.

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  3. Interior view of the Arts and Industries Building when 1876: A Centennial Exhibition was on display.

    Archives Puzzles: A Centennial Celebration

    • Date: December 28, 2020
    • 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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  5. A Suffrage Protest at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 4, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: In 1917, police detectives arrested two suffragists suspected of planning a pro-suffrage demonstration at the United States National Museum.

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  7. Photography Changes Everything, Edited by Marvin Heiferman

    A DC Event Celebrates the Publication of PHOTOGRAPHY CHANGES EVERYTHING

    • Date: September 10, 2012
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Marvin Heiferman is doing a book signing of Photography Changes Everything at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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  9. Photographers with photographic equipment by the U.S. Fish Commission fish hatchery ponds located near the grounds of the Washington Monument.

    Vintage Shutterbugs

    • Date: May 26, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Did you know that May is National Photography Month? Declared by Congress as a month-long event in 1987, National Photography Month celebrates all aspects of photography. We invite you to see what our photographers were up to a century before this declaration in this behind- the-scenes slideshow of the photographic laboratory spaces, set-ups, and equipment of the United States

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  11. Historian and Curator, Dr. Gail Lowe, Anacostia Community Museum

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Gail Lowe

    • Date: August 3, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In Memoriam: Historian and Curator, Dr. Gail Lowe, Anacostia Community Museum, led the Urban Waterway project exploring the connection of local communities with the Anacostia River as an example of urban river communities around the country. #Groundbreaker

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  13. Blog Post

    In a Smithsonian Archive Minute

    • Date: January 28, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="A visitor to the National Portrait Gallery takes a picture of a friend next to the newly-installed, temporary portrait of comedian Stephen Colbert, by Andrew Deci, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] To judge from a walk I just took across the Smithsonian Mall, visitors to our Nation’s capitol are doing nothing

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    The Archives Contributes to a new Website on the Burgess Shale

    • Date: December 8, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives contributes images to a new website about the Burgess Shale, a paleontological site located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, by Royal Ontario Museum and Parks Canada.

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  17. Intricately carved beige stone of 2 warriors during battle

    Link Love: 11/17/2017

    • Date: November 17, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A recently discovered carved sealstone from a 3,500 year old tomb in Southwest Greece shows that highly skilled stone carving in Greek civilization occurred much earlier than thought. [via Colossal]Speaking of warriors, how to fight file format rot from the Library of Congress. [via Scientific American]A new program from our National Museum of the American Indian seeks to

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  19. Portrait of Professor Cole in her office

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Johnnetta Cole

    • Date: July 19, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Anthropologist & educator Dr. Johnnetta Cole was director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art from 2009–2017, and the only person to have served as president of two historically Black colleges for women in the U.S., Spelman and Bennett. #Groundbreaker

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  21. Weimaraner on table outdoors with staff surrounding him smiling.

    Link Love: 1/12/2018

    • Date: January 12, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Conservation wonder puppy, Riley, was brought to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to sniff out pests that could damage the artwork! #jealous [via NY Times]A tender adaptation of the Velveteen Rabbit with new illustrations. [via Brain Pickings]A 3-D printed puzzle that allows you to test your architectural knowledge, from architect Fumio Matsumoto. [via Hyperallergic]Game of

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  23. 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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