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    See Here: 6/28/2010

    • Date: June 28, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption=""Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland,

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    See Here: 12/9/2010

    • Date: December 9, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="380" caption="James Smithson bronze bust, commissioned by Paul E. Garber, historian emeritus at the National Air and Space Museum, made by sculptor Felix de Weldon, who stands next to it, De Weldon worked from an examination of Smithson's skull performed by Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, curator of Physical Anthropology in the National Museum

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    See Here: 3/10/2011

    • Date: March 10, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="248" caption="Henry B. Collins, ethnologist with the Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, conducted field work in Florida in the winter of 1927-1928, In this photo, Collins holds up a recently caught fish, and Mrs. W. E. Colton is seated next to Collins, c. 1927-1928, by

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    See Here: 4/19/2011

    • Date: April 19, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="335" caption="Sophie Lutterlough, hired in 1943 as the Smithsonian’s first female elevator operator, sits in front of a microscope in the Department of Entomology, For 14 years Lutterlough ran the elevators, but moved on to a second career after asking Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke if there were any openings in his department, and being hired

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    Walking on Broken Glass

    • Date: July 22, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7450" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="A broken glass plate negative, Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives."][/caption] We are in the throes of summer here in Washington DC, and that means three things:  heat, more heat, and interns. Interns not only allow us to share expertise and experience with newcomers to the field, but also allow

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  11. To Post-it or Not to Post-it

    • Date: September 5, 2013
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: Although fun and easy to use, post-it notes are often harmful to archival records, as seen with the conservation of Cordelia Rose’s recently acquired scroll.

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    Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites

    • Date: August 2, 2011
    • Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.

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  15. Whiteboards and poster boards are covered in post-its. It’s difficult to make out what they say. Temporary desks are below the boards.

    Take a picture, it’ll last longer

    • Date: November 2, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: On what better day than Election Day to follow up on that tidbit I dropped a couple weeks ago regarding a consultation about then-candidate Barack Obama’s dry-erase boards, a recent acquisition by the National Museum of African American History and Culture? These artifacts, along with archival material and other realia (in archives terms: a man-made three-dimensional object)

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  17. A black-and-white picture of Mary Jane Rathbun working at her desk at the Smithsonian Institution.

    Wikipedia & Women in Science: Smithsonian Groundbreakers Edit-a-thon

    • Date: August 24, 2020
    • Description: Help us increase the representation of women in science on Wikipedia!

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    What should “reality” look like?

    • Date: April 6, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Untitled, 2007, © 2007 Jos Stam"][/caption] In selecting participants for click! photography changes everything, one of the issues I wanted to explore was, “Just how photographic do the images of ‘reality’ need to be?” Many people assume that the quantity and level of detail captured in a photographic image—what some

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  21. An older woman sits at a desk. A lizard is resting on her shoulder but seems to blend in with her sweater.

    Doris Holmes Blake and Her Natural History

    • Date: March 21, 2019
    • Creator: Tatiana Swann
    • Description: Doris Holmes Blake's devotion to her passion for entomology made her a treasure to natural history and the Smithsonian Institution.

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    Unity for International Migratory Bird Day

    • Date: May 10, 2018
    • Creator: Matt Peterson
    • Description: The theme of this year’s International Migratory Bird Day is unity. The Smithsonian has a longstanding history of commitment to the natural world. No figure in the Institution’s history better exemplifies the theme of unity surrounding migratory species than sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore. He knew the importance of the role that birds play in

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