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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Linda Edquist

      • Date: June 12, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Linda Edquist, Conservator and Head of Preservation, National Postal Museum, 1993–2018, managed conservation projects, staff, and exhibitions at the museum. Edquist first arrived at the Smithsonian as a Conservation Technician at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 1990–92. #Groundbreaker

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      Link Love: 11/12/2010

      • Date: November 12, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Steven Cohn, the Smithsonian’s Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management and the museum’s representative Industrial Hygienist, tests Owney's fur for arsenic, lead and mercury. Courtesy of the National Postal Museum "Pushing the Envelope" blog."][/caption] More interesting preservation challenges. We’ve covered

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      How Many Stamps Does it Take to Mail a Baby?

      • Date: June 16, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="221" caption="Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag, by Unidentified photographer, c. 1900, National Postal Museum."][/caption] Since the Smithsonian began uploading photos to the Flickr Commons, there have been some clear crowd favorites. The photo above, for example, is by far our most popular photo on the Flickr Commons,

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Cheryl R. Ganz

      • Date: May 26, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      Link Love: 12/23/2016

      • Date: December 23, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: From the look of this 16th Century book, Swedes sure knew how to deal with winter. [via Smithsonian Libraries]A rediscovered Christmas drinking song! [via Fine Books & Collections]Just in time for the solstice, ancient Japan's 72 seasons in a calendar app! [via Hyperallergic]The historic precursor to Amazon's delivery drones (a curator from our National Postal Museum weighs

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    11. Link Love: 9/18/2020

      • Date: September 18, 2020
      • 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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      • Link Love: 12/07/2018

        • Date: December 7, 2018
        • 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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        • Visitors at the "America's Stamps" Exhibit, NPM

          Visitors at the "America's Stamps" Exhibit, NPM

          • Date: 1995
          • Creator: Phillips, Charles
          • Creator: Phillips, Charles

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          Agency history, 1990-

          • Date: 1990 1990-
          • Creator: National Postal Museum (U.S.)

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          Link Love: 6/5/2015

          • Date: June 5, 2015
          • 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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