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    Link Love: 12/6/2013

    • Date: December 6, 2013
    • 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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    Coming into Focus

    • Date: October 1, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2376" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="blurredvision, by Flickr user Paul Denton Cocker."][/caption] According to the National Eye Institute, more than 3 million Americans are blind or have vision so poor that everyday tasks become extremely difficult. Interestingly, according to a recent article by Pam Belluck in The New York Times, a new

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  5. Cropped black & white portrait of Erminnie Platt Smith and her family.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Erminnie Platt Smith

    • Date: January 25, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Anthropologist Erminnie Platt Smith, Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, was an expert in the Iroquois Nation of New York and Canada and the first woman to specialize in ethnographic field work. #Groundbreaker

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  7. Camp F.L. Guenther, U.S. Coast Artillery at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.

    Sneak Peek 11/11/2019

    • Date: November 11, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Cyanotype, Camp F.L. Guenther, U.S. Coast Artillery at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 13763.

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    Link Love: 7/2/2010

    • Date: July 2, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7288" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Baseball Photographer Trading Card: Ansel Adams, 1975, by Mike Mandel."][/caption] What happens when you mix baseball cards with famous photographers? I’m loving Mike Mandel’s 1975 Baseball Photographer Trading Cards project posted over at Fans in a Flashbulb. The Tenement Museum in downtown New York has

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    Link Love: 7/15/2016

    • Date: July 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A cook's delight: 3000 vintage cookbooks now available on the Internet Archive. [via Open Culture]A growing online archive of Vernacular Typography. [via Hyperallergic]18th century toilets beget treasures! [via Huffington Post]Space travel plans? You can download the code that took America to the moon from GitHub. [via Quartz]Museums on my bucket list; Japan's museum for

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  13. Link Love: 5/24/2019

    • Date: May 24, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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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    Looking Death in the Face

    • Date: February 1, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Moseley, Greenwood Cemetery, 1998, by Titus Brooks Heagins, Digital photograph, Anacostia Community Museum, Titus Brooks Heagins Collection, Gift of Titus Brooks Heagins, © 1998 Titus Brooks Heagins, PH 2005.7010.01."][/caption] At one point, early in CNN’s round-the-clock television coverage of Haiti after the earthquake

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  17. Link Love: 01/15/2021

    • Date: January 15, 2021
    • 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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    Finding the Thousand Words Behind the Picture

    • Date: March 31, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: You know the old cliché—“A picture is worth a thousand words.” But is it true in every case? A simple portrait from 60 years ago may give some clues to period hairstyle and dress, but none to where the photo was taken or why the person was noteworthy. Sources now available on the internet, such as the Historic newspaper database, Proquest, and even YouTube—give Smithsonian

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    See Here: 4/8/2011

    • Date: April 8, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="374" caption="A reproduction of the facade of a 19th century instrument shop of Benjamin Pike of New York City in the Hall of Physical Sciences, The exhibit opened in March 1966 in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1966, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print,

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  23. A devil is surrounded by people.Birds are in the sky.

    Link Love: 10/04/2019

    • Date: October 4, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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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