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    1. Hot Topics in Archival Research

      • Date: December 8, 2015
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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      Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

      • Date: November 28, 2017
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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    5. quatic microscope made by John Cuff of London, around 1750. National Museum of American History, cat. MG*M-09898.

      Link Love: 5/15/2015

      • Date: May 15, 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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    7. Black and white photo of a young Margaret Collins sitting at a lab bench with a microscope in front of her.

      Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor

      • Date: March 27, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist and civil rights activist. While her fieldwork has been written about previously, that is clearly just one part of a full and distinguished career.Collins’ interest in science

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    9. The Broad Museum, photo by Iwan Baan.

      Link Love: 10/16/2015

      • Date: October 16, 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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    11. Scared to Death?: The Curious Case of a Pine Mouse

      • Date: August 14, 2012
      • Description: “Can a Rattlesnake hypnotize a Pine Mouse to death”? Questions from a typical day of treatment for a Pre-Program Paper Conservation Intern.

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    13. National Museum of History and Technology flag

      Happy 100th Flag Day!

      • Date: June 14, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: In celebration of Flag Day, a look at the series of flags designed for the Smithsonian’s museums and research centers, 1965.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse

      • Date: January 24, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.

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    17. The Business of Slavery section is located in the heart of the Merchant Era in the

      Link Love: 6/19/2015

      • Date: June 19, 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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    19. Photographer Michael Barnes and his copy stand setup.

      Rapid Capture Digitization to bring the Smithsonian's Board of Regents Minutes Online

      • Date: September 8, 2015
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Digitizing the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents minutes to make them available online.

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    21. "The whole Smithsonian was like one big family . . . "

      • Date: March 12, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: For forty years, Miss Helena Weiss kept the Smithsonian running smoothly as a clerk, stenographer, director of the Office of Correspondence and Documents, and Registrar. When she retired, her position was divided into seven separate jobs.

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    23. James T. Tanner's photographs of the ivory-billed woodpecker with guide

      Link Love: 5/11/2012

      • Date: May 11, 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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