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    1. A man in a gray hooded sweatshirt bends over a textile-mounted piece of art on paper; he is pressing a heated metal spatula against a piece of white insulating paper to soften heat-sensitive paper as a mending technique. The art on paper is supported on a clear acrylic board suspended between two white tables.

      Some Conservator Career Advice

      • Date: July 11, 2019
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: So you want to be a conservator? In this continuation of our series on career advice, one of our conservators shares some advice for those looking to explore the professional field of cultural heritage conservation.

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    3. Facing our Fears

      • Date: October 30, 2018
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: An unusually serious Halloween post in which we dress up to stage a mock recovery from a museum fire.

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    5. Link Love: 9/4/2020

      • Date: September 4, 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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    7. Another scrapbook, previously disbound, in much worse condition. See a previous archivist’s insert on the right, presumably assessing the book’s condition: “A hideous example of what happens to records which are left to the tender graces of time.” Courtesy of Marie Desrochers.

      Mending Tissues and More: Stabilizing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbooks for Digitization

      • Date: August 25, 2015
      • Description: Intern Marie Desrochers details her experience with co-intern Sarah Casto, stabilizing and rehousing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbook collection at Archives of American Art.

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    9. The Landscape Alphabet, by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, 1810-1860, paper lithograph, British Museum, 1870,0514.2075-2100.

      Link Love: 2/21/2014

      • Date: February 21, 2014
      • 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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    11. Anteaters Association membership card issued to Marion P. McCrane for the 1962-1963 season, Accession 01-157 - Marion P. McCrane Papers, 1962-1989, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Everything But Anteaters

      • Date: June 3, 2014
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: The National Zoo Park Restaurant’s Anteaters Association attracted off-season diners with its exotic game lunches.

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    13. Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville (1867-1937).

      Contagious Contributions: The Rewards of Asking for Help

      • Date: February 26, 2015
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Update on the continuing and growing contributions of volunteers at the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    15. Watson Davis’s handwritten notes on the day he first met John Thomas Scopes in June 1925. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Science Service: Up Close

      • Date: May 19, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a

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    17. Kira Sobers works on an audio reel-to-reel tape recorder. It has two tape wheels and many buttons.

      What Our Experts Want You to Know About Digitization

      • Date: May 19, 2020
      • Description: Our digitization experts answer questions about the complicated and time-consuming process of digitizing our collections.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Stuff Matters

      • Date: September 3, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Science Service photographs, while having good identifying information, can still be helped by the cybercommunity to fill in some of the mission information.

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    21. The Smithsonian Goes Telephonic in 1878!

      • Date: June 28, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9592,size=200,left]Did you know the Smithsonian was an early adopter of the telephone? In June of 1878, a system of electronic bells and telephones was installed throughout the Smithsonian Castle. The system connected several workrooms and offices to provide instant communications within the building. At that time, there were only 187 telephone lines

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    23. Field Book Narratives of Volcanologist James F. Luhr

      • Date: August 18, 2016
      • Description: A look into the field books of volcanologist James F. Luhr.

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