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    Kodak Girl

    • Date: March 23, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="181" caption="Edmonia Lewis, National Portrait Gallery"][/caption] In Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia (2000), Nancy Martha West describes how the company—marketing the first box cameras in the 1890s—aggressively targeted female consumers, hoping they’d “see photography not only as a necessary component of domestic life but as an integral

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  3. Negative Log Book Number 5, Stamps Air Mail (73-4631 to 73-13597)

    Negative Log Book Number 5, Stamps Air Mail (73-4631 to 73-13597)

    • Date: 1973
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives Smithsonian Photographic Services

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    Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right

    • Date: April 20, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Perfect, by Bruce Berrien, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] At the turn of the 21st century, as federal organizations and private corporations were competing against each other in the race to decode the human genome, a number of exhibitions that explored areas where genetic science and visual imagery

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    Do You See What I See?

    • Date: August 13, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1872" align="aligncenter" width="263" caption="Eyeball 1, by loonyhiker, 2009."][/caption] At some point, everyday, I scan the Internet for stories about photography’s role and impact in culture. It turns out that in addition to all the images that are out there to be seen, there are surprising numbers of reports circulating about the power of those

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    SIA Acc. 13-194, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Office of Curatorial Affairs, Exhibition and Program Records, 1994-2011

    • Date: 1994 1994-2011
    • Creator: National Museum of American History. Office of Curatorial Affairs
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 97-012, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Office of Exhibits, Special Exhibition Records, 1981-1993

    • Date: 1981 1981-1993
    • Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Office of Exhibits
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 15-103, National Museum of American History (U.S.), Website Records, 2008-2014

    • Date: 2008 2008-2014
    • Creator: National Museum of American History
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Link Love: 4/9/2010

    • Date: April 9, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Still Photographs That Make You Want Moving Ones

    • Date: November 24, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3065" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Detail of a vinyl advertisement, Chennai, India, 2004, by Preminda Jacob."][/caption] It’s interesting to think about how shrewdly and often free still photography is used to get us to pay to watch motion pictures. Still photographs—often shot by special photographers on sound stages or on location, just

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  19. Princess Diana and John Travolta Dancing, Nov. 5, 1985. Click for full view.

    Link Love: 8/31/2012

    • Date: August 31, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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    SIA Acc. 17-070, National Museum of American History (U.S.), Website Records, 2008-2016

    • Date: 2008 2008-2016
    • Creator: National Museum of American History
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  23. Link Love: 10/5/2012

    • Date: October 5, 2012
    • 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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