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      Link Love: 12/6/2013

      • Date: December 6, 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. Snake River Float Trip, by EJS, Prior to 1970.

      Wish you (or your image) were here

      • Date: August 7, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    5. An Airborne Adventure: Photographing a Tuskegee Airmen Plane

      • Date: January 19, 2012
      • Description: Learn about the Smithsonian Institution Archive photographer, Michael Barnes, and his experience photographing Tuskegee Airmen and one of their original training planes.

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    7. Blog Post

      Tips from Smithsonian Photographers on Photographing Fireworks

      • Date: June 28, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Note: This blog post borrows heavily from the article, “Shooting Fireworks: Capture the Spectacle,” from former Smithsonian employee, Jim Wallace (originally published on the Smithsonian staff photographer’s website in 1995), with valuable additions from Ken Rahaim. The 4th of July is coming up next week, promising picnics, gatherings, and of course, fireworks. You may have

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    9. Scan of a 1938 Washington Post article.

      Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian

      • Date: April 26, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August

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    11. Black and white, slightly out of focus photograph of Lorentz and Einstein standing side by side out doors.

      Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

      • Date: May 8, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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    13. Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects

      • Date: October 15, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.

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    15. Blog Post

      Most Likely to be Succeeded

      • Date: May 19, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Posing with a yearbook picture of myself, by Billy Mabray, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I’m a fan of yearbooks. I was an editor of mine in college, a somewhat unusual, multi-volume, and boxed object that included two books, a booklet, a brochure, and (it being the late sixties) a balloon. Back then, we

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    17. Watson Hiner Monroe (at left, behind the wheel) and Katherine Tait Omwake and Thelma Hunt (visible in the back seat), participating in driving test as part of the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test” weekend, August 14-16, 1925.

      Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 2 - Adventurers

      • Date: August 20, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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