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Both Sides Now
- Date: April 13, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="Candice Bergen, October 1981, LIFE Magazine, © Time Inc."][/caption] Most of us know what it’s like to be the subject of a photograph and to take one, to be seen and to see. But some of us, due to unusual circumstances, know more about that than others. In her 1984 autobiography, Knock Wood, Candice Bergen wrote with
- Blog Post
Couriers of the Flight
- Date: October 22, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Photograph of airmail planes at Elko, Nevada, by unknown photographer, c. 1920, Smithsonian National Postal Museum."][/caption] Just last week, we uploaded some new photos of early US airmail from the National Postal Museum to the “People and the Post” set on the Flickr Commons. I was immediately drawn in by the portraits
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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The Court of Chancery
- Date: August 9, 2021
- Description: The Court of Chancery was the high-level English law court where the battle between Elizabeth Macie and Henrietta Maria Walker was resolved. Chancery was also such a legendary money-pit of bureaucratic red tape that Charles Dickens lampooned the court in his novel Bleak House, depicting centuries-long, fortune-destroying lawsuits that only mildly exaggerated the delays and
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 87-057, Dall, Mark H, Mark H. Dall Collection, 1574-1963
- Date: 1574 1574-1963
- Creator: Dall, Mark H.
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Tips and Lessons from the Opening of the Renwick Gallery
- Date: June 11, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: In the midst of Smithsonian's busy season, we’re providing tips for visitors through the lens of photographs from the opening of the Renwick Gallery in 1972.
- Document
ARCHIVAL PRESERVATION OF SMITHSONIAN WEB RESOURCES: STRATEGIES, PRINCIPLES, AND BEST PRACTICES
- Blog Post
Are You There?
- Date: July 29, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, from "Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem" Portfolio, 1858, Francis Frith"][/caption] The first examples of travel photography are almost simultaneous with the invention of photography itself. In 1841, following an extensive trip through the Middle East, wine merchant and early photographer,
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 11-021, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Exhibition Records, 1968-2010
- Date: 1968 1968-2010
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Searching and Using Web Archives
- Date: April 9, 2019
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: There are many ways to find and use archived web collections.
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Hungerford Deed
- Date: August 4, 2021
- Creator: WhitesellA
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Hungerford Deed
- Date: August 4, 2021
- Creator: WhitesellA