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  1. An illustration of the Children’s Room in the Smithsonian Castle. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Smithsonian Libraries.

    Knowledge Begins in Wonder: The Design Behind the Smithsonian Children’s Room

    • Date: March 1, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.

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    Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: September 21, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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    Conserving Harper’s Three-for-One Field Book

    • Date: August 24, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Though a large part of our collections are flat—that is, they are unbound materials as opposed to bound, three-dimensional objects—a significant group of our holdings do live in bindings and book structures (some of my previous blog contributions have dealt with books, but none with as great a degree of intervention). Treating a field book became more complicated—and more

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  7. Six festival participants on wooden stage holding ukuleles with visitors looking on.

    Talk Story: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

    • Date: May 18, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A look back at the history of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in honor of Asian Pacific American heritage Month.

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  9. A typed legal court document dated March 1935. The pages have been paper-clipped together and show multiple fold creases.

    Six Tips for Preserving Family Archives

    • Date: November 26, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: Some advice from Archives staff on preserving your family’s history. 

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  11. Emma Wolman interned at the Smithsonian Institution Archives in 2009. Photo courtesy of Emma Wolman.

    Where Are They Now?

    • Date: May 20, 2014
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives catches up with former interns.

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  13. A group of men and women surround a table in a glass-walled room, listening to a man in a blue shirt describe a parchment document visible on the table in front of him.

    A Tale of Three Contracts

    • Date: September 5, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: An exciting new accession sheds light on James Smithson’s family history and fortune.

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  15. The mast and signal flag raised on Marchena Island by the castaways (detail),

    The Empress of the Galapagos Islands, Part 4

    • Date: November 7, 2011
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  17. Two-Year Old Boy Sitting in Basket 1909, NAA INV 06226600, Glass Negative, National Anthropological Archives.

    You Asked, We Answered: 2015 Ask an Archivist

    • Date: November 10, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On Thursday, October 22nd, four of our archivists/conservators were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fifth year hosting

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