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    Not Restarting, Starting Over: New Workflows for a New “Normal”

    • Date: August 24, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Being away from the office for over a year has given us a lot of opportunity to think about what workflows will look like once we are able to return to our collections, especially for conservation and digitization.

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  3. Side-by-side of damaged papers, with folds and tears, and recently treated papers in good conditions.

    Decision-making and Digitization: Triaging Mass Treatment Options

    • Date: February 18, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Choosing the right treatment method can be a challenge—especially when mass interventions are needed on a tight deadline.

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  5. Mending one of the specimen illustrations atop a light box.

    An Undersea Invertebrates Update: Treatment Progress on Bartsch’s Nudibranchs Field Book

    • Date: May 18, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Treatment continues on Paul Bartsch’s field book documenting nudibranchs—see our progress!

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  7. Checking the contents of the boxes against the finding aid to ensure all materials are accounted for.

    Project SEARCH Comes to the Archives

    • Date: June 16, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: This spring, the Archives welcomed Heather Weiss, a Project SEARCH intern, and as her time with us comes to an end, we wanted to highlight her accomplishments.

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  9. The back page of the front cover and the first page of a book is visible. The notes are dated 1818.

    Rafinesque, Ready for a Close-Up

    • Date: December 13, 2018
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: When a television channel asks to film our collections, we want to show them at their best. Read how we accommodate media requests while keeping our collections safe.

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  11. The indenture during the local humidification and flattening stage. The portion featuring the seals has become completely detached. Photo courtesy of William Bennett.

    Breach of Contract: Repairing the Walcott Indenture

    • Date: March 17, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See how we preserved a recent arrival to the Archives.

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  13. Diagram of Solomon Brown photograph housing showing construction process. Image by William Bennett.

    Home Sweet Housing: Creating a Unique Enclosure for a Historic Photograph

    • Date: November 24, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Finding a unique housing solution to preserve a historic photograph, detailing the history of one of the Smithsonian's earliest employees.

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  15. Original framing of the Archives’ bison images

    Bison Lost, Bison Found

    • Date: February 23, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Join us as we recount how the Archives’ crayon enlargements depicting American bison were traced back to their probable origin.

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  17. Letter from Mabel Truss Metcalf to Marguerite Henrich Kellogg, October 14, 1923, page 1.

    A Glimpse of 1920s China from the Remington Kellogg Papers

    • Date: February 19, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: With Chinese New Year upon us, the beautiful stationery these letters are written on gives a glimpse into life for academic expatriates in southern China in the 1920s.

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  19. An L-shaped stacked stone and mortar house with a slate roof and white-painted sash windows sits amidst a grassy expanse. A lichen-covered stacked stone wall separates the front garden from pastureland.

    Walking in the Footsteps of Hungerfords

    • Date: September 15, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Readers of The Bigger Picture will be familiar with the Hungerford Deed, a 1787 property contract dividing a lucrative land inheritance between the mother and aunt of the Smithsonian’s founding donor, James Smithson. Over the last three years I have been able to take a deep dive into the content of the Deed and strengthen our understanding of Smithson’s choice to leave his

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  21. Rediscovering Historical Perspectives: A Newspaper Update on World War II

    • Date: November 11, 2014
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: In honor of Veteran's Day we talk a look at how a recently discovered newspaper illustrated how information was spread/kept secret during World War II.

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  23. Color image of tall glass covered buildings, making up the Houston skyline, against and almost completely blue sky.

    Conference Round-up: the Archives at AIC Houston

    • Date: June 5, 2018
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: As we teased earlier this spring in our Facebook Live event, last week Senior Conservator Nora Lockshin and I traveled to Houston, Texas, to share our work with conservation colleagues at the 46th annual meeting of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC). Our contributions centered around work with the Field Book Project, as did our Facebook Live.Another successful

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