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  1. Link Love: 11/13/2020

    • Date: November 13, 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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  3. Mary S. M. Gibson, January 1954, Frank J. Gilloon Agency, Record Unit 267: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Records, 1881, 1895-1976, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Women in Humanities

    • Date: March 3, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: To kick off Women's History month, a look at some of the women in humanities represented in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.

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  5. This clay facial reconstruction of Kennewick Man was carefully sculpted around the morphological features of his skull, and lends a deeper understanding of what he may have looked like nearly 9,000 years ago. By Brittney Tatchell, August 25, 2014, Smithsonian Institution.

    Link Love: 8/29/2014

    • Date: August 29, 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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    Link Love: 4/23/2010

    • Date: April 23, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="World War II. Liberation of Holland. Dutch people waving at allied planes, The Netherlands, location unknown, 1945, Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo, SFA001015927. "][/caption] During WWII, many spots in Holland were liberated in April of 1945. Check out some of the National Archief’s new set of Flickr Commons photos

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  9. Faded color map of the United States as it was in 1839.

    Pursuing Knowledge in Unfamiliar Country

    • Date: November 15, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: In mid-19th century America, some believed that world-class discoveries came exclusively from Europe. But early Smithsonian leaders had a sense of urgency to disseminate an authoritative body of knowledge, pursue further discoveries, and provide a deeper understanding to the public at a time when American society was changing.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Carol O’Donnell

    • Date: November 4, 2020
    • 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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    Documenting a Life of One’s Own

    • Date: March 24, 2022
    • Description: Consider the courage it took for some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian to donate their personal papers to the Institution.

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  15. Jacobs sits across from a woman at a desk and takes notes.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Madeleine Jacobs

    • Date: July 29, 2020
    • 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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  17. Computer rendering of concentric pink and silver tubes

    Link Love: 4/21/2017

    • Date: April 21, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Get ready for this summer's big installation at the National Building Museum: Hive. [via WAPO]Want to play old school games like Frogger? The Internet Archive has a Mac game emulator for you! [via Wired]Produce art. [via Colossal]A series of tutorials from the American Alliance of Museums, Becoming a Data Startup (for museums). [via AAM]470,000 images from Europeana are now

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  19. Richard Jones House

    Link Love: 8/12/2016

    • Date: August 12, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Reconstructing a former slave house in our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via Atlantic]Cheating was common at the Olympics in ancient Greece. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Citizen science at its best: the app, iNaturalist, is actually helping scientists discover new species! [via NPR]Book-lovers rejoice! You may live longer. [via Guardian]Download 1000's

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  21. The Tropical Travels of George C. Wheeler - Part I

    • Date: January 10, 2013
    • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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  23. American Archives Month

    Link Love: 9/30/2016

    • Date: September 30, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Join us and other archives around the U.S. to ask questions on Twitter Wednesday, 10/5. #AskAnArchivist [via SAA]A new project looking at the role photography plays in science, with an essay from our own, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette on the credit due to scientist Rosalind Franklin. [via curator Marvin Heiferman]The International Criminal Court has ruled that destroying

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