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  1. Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art

    Link Love: 6/21/2013

    • Date: June 21, 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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  3. Resurrection City, National Mall, Washington, DC, 1968.

    The Smithsonian and the Poor People's Campaign

    • Date: January 17, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The Smithsonian served as neighbor to the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 and still tells its story almost 50 years later.

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    In Living Color

    • Date: January 12, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4178" align="alignleft" width="206" caption="Levi Hill often photographed color lithographic prints, mostly European images, when attempting to perfect his Hillotype color process. This print of a girl and small animal shows his achievement in capturing natural colors on a daguerreotype plate, circa 1851-56."][/caption] Excepting the 8% of males and

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    See Here: 12/29/2009

    • Date: December 29, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Secretary S. Dillon Ripley with Mexican Ambassador Jose Juan de Olloqui with the celebrated Chac-Mool from Chichen-Itzaon which is a classic example of Maya-Toltec sculpture, November 18, 1976, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    click! photography changes everything: FINAL CALL FOR ENTRY

    • Date: November 19, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3281" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Encouraging Curiosity for Man and Animal, Photograph courtesy of Zac Henderson."][/caption] About a year ago, we asked you to reflect on the ways photography has changed your life. We heard from Ellen Hyatt, an English teacher in South Carolina, who uses photographs to inspire her student’s creative writing

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  11. Iris Miroy Ovshinsky with her husband Stanford Robert Ovshinsky.

    Science Service, Up Close: The Periodic Chart

    • Date: January 3, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Henry David Hubbard (1870-1943), a physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, designed the first edition of the "Periodic Chart of the Atoms" in 1924. The chart is still in use today, continually updated to reflect new elements.

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    See Here: 11/24/2009

    • Date: November 24, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="272" caption="Joseph Henry, First Smithsonian Secretary, 1862, by Titian Ramsay Peale, Card photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 27-B, Negative Number:10603. "][/caption]

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  15. Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: December 8, 2015
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  17. A man and woman stands outdoors in a rocky area. Both are holding the golf clubs and the woman is preparing to take a swing.

    Margaret Sordahl, Collecting Flora and Fauna at a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Station

    • Date: December 2, 2021
    • Description: We’re taking a glimpse into the work and life of Margaret Sordahl and other women at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory stations around the world.

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  19. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018

    • Date: December 27, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  21. Two men are seated at a table, A microphone and a water pitcher is in between them.

    Celebrating National Radio Day

    • Date: August 18, 2022
    • Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.

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    Mapping the Moon

    • Date: May 19, 2009
    • Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of

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