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    Understanding the Magic Lantern

    • Date: October 2, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Thornewood Estate in Takoma, Washington, by Asahel Curtis, August 1933, Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens."][/caption] Just the other day we received a comment on one of our photos in the new Flickr Commons set of lantern slides from the Archives of American Gardens. A visitor was interested to know whether or not

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    Doris Holmes Blake and the Fight for Women’s Right to Paid Employment

    • Date: May 3, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: How the marital status provision of the 1932 Economy Act impacted one Smithsonian scientist.

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    Mac Salad and Two Scoops Rice

    • Date: May 14, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."

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  7. Curator of Paleontology Division Charles Lewis Gazin looks on as vertebrate paleontology preparators Norman Boss (center) and Arlton Murray (right) prepare a giant sloth skeleton in the Vertebrate Preparation Lab for exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, 1940s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MNH-37289B.

    Arlton C. Murray, Smithsonian Employee Who Became a Creation Scientist

    • Date: December 26, 2013
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: The search to prove/disprove the office story of Arlton C. Murray, the Smithsonian employee who became a creation scientist.

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  9. Black and white high school yearbook picture of Marie Louise Clogher.

    Forging a Legal Path: Marie Malaro

    • Date: September 18, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Marie Malaro, 1933-2018, entered law in 1957 when few women were admitted to the bar, and then taught generations of museum professionals how law and ethics applied to their work every day.

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  11. Color photograph of a large group of Tibetans in traditional clothing, standing outside on the National Mall, under flags.

    Archives, Record Management, and Digital Material

    • Date: July 12, 2018
    • Description: As a student with a background in libraries, one of the most interesting things I learned as an intern at the Smithsonian Institution Archives this summer was how closely related records management is to archival practice. I was unaware that as an institutional archive, the Archives is specifically concerned with preserving records that relate to the Smithsonian’s identity,

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  13. Dave Walker, Audio Digitization Specialist, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

    Ask an Archivist: Bring Your Questions Monday, October 27

    • Date: October 24, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In celebration of Archives Month, join us Monday, October 27th, 10am to 4pm ET, where four of our archivists specializing in audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (or electronic records) will be on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about your own archival collections. Questions from our readers in the past have ranged from storing letter and

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  15. Side by side comparison of a two color images of a woman in a blue dress on a gray background.

    The Beauty of Reusable CSS

    • Date: June 26, 2018
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: Recently I came across an article about Diana Smith, a user interface engineer, nay, artist who uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) as a medium for creating pieces of artwork. She creates these CSS masterpieces by typing out each and every element by hand. All 4324 lines of them.Now, the artwork that Diana has created is impressive enough, but what’s even more impressive to me,

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    Google Halts an Archiving Project

    • Date: June 8, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Newspapers, by Quinn Cowper, Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND 2.0."][/caption] On May 20th, a flurry of reports took note of Google’s decisions to halt its ambitious efforts to digitize the contents of newspaper archives and make them online and at no cost.

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    How Many Stamps Does it Take to Mail a Baby?

    • Date: June 16, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="221" caption="Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag, by Unidentified photographer, c. 1900, National Postal Museum."][/caption] Since the Smithsonian began uploading photos to the Flickr Commons, there have been some clear crowd favorites. The photo above, for example, is by far our most popular photo on the Flickr Commons,

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    Look Again

    • Date: April 1, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="View of Canyon, 1873, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Black and white photoprint on cardboard mount, National Anthropological Archives, SPC Sw Gen NM 113605 01861700, Local Number: NAA INV 01861700."][/caption] I paid another visit to the Timothy O’Sullivan exhibition now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a

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    NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Facility Marks 10 Years

    • Date: December 12, 2013
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: NASM’s Udvar-Hazy facility celebrates its 10th anniversary.

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