Results for "Plants"
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Link Love: 5/27/2011
- Date: May 27, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 4/13/2012
- Date: April 13, 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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Link Love: 9/10/2010
- Date: September 10, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="168" caption="Canna indica L., identified by P.J.M. Maas & H. Maas, Cusco, Peru, National Museum of Natural History, Botany Department, Catalog Number: 1998001."][/caption] The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Botany Department just added over 1,300 images to the Smithsonian Collection Search Center! Some gorgeous
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Link Love: 4/8/2011
- Date: April 8, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="198" caption="Screenshot from music video "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, Shows use of anti-gravity leaning patent, Courtesy of Wikipedia."][/caption] Umm, this definitely wins the award for my most favorite new discovery in an archive. How did Michael Jackson do that off the hook lean in his dance in “Smooth Criminal”? Apparently
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New Field Book Sets on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons
- Date: August 24, 2011
- 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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Link Love: 5/6/2011
- Date: May 6, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="192" caption="A shot of Leafsnap, a free tree field guide app from the Smithsonian, University of Maryland, and Columbia University."][/caption] Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution have tapped their experts to help create the world’s first plant identification mobile app using visual search:
What Did the Smithsonian Exhibit When it First Opened?
- Date: May 22, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: An overview of what the Smithsonian collected and displayed when it first opened to the public in 1855.
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Link Love: 12/10/2010
- Date: December 10, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: The Library of Congress has posted nearly 700 Civil War photos to the Flickr Commons. Forget Tomb Raider—an Archive Raider is much cooler. How is the discoverer of the poinsettia plant, Joel Poinsett, connected to SIA and the Smithsonian? Find out more on the Around the Mall blog. It’s like first aid for your books: Archives Outside gives detailed directions about how to make
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Link Love: 11/19/2010
- Date: November 19, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Ever heard of The Impossible Project? When Polaroid announced they would stop production of instant film, these folks saved the last Polaroid production plant in the Netherlands, and started to develop new instant film with a small team of former Polaroid employees. Check out some shots of Smithsonian museums taken by Aaron Dunn and created with the fruits of their labor. What
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Link Love: 7/23/2010
- Date: July 23, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Visitors: Share photos of your trip to the Smithsonian museums in this new Flickr set! Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes posts an interview with Secretary Clough that includes a mention of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Institution’s overall prioritization of digitizing and archiving photographs. Time sink! The BBC launched a World Music Archive this morning! There
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Live Blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair!
- Date: October 22, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="attachment_9678" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="View of the Archives Fair setup, October 22, 2010."][/caption] We are going to be live blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair this morning and profiling all of the activities that will be going on today. Stay tuned throughout the day to see what's going on. [caption id="attachment_9680"
Start the New Year Right with Tips from the Archives
- Date: January 3, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: With the new year, here’s a run-down of some tips from the blog archives to help keep your digital and physical files and photos well organized.