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  1. Photographer Michael Barnes adjusting a bird head drawing by Robert Ridgeway on the copy stand surface, 2013, by Ricc Ferrante.

    Rapidly Capturing Ridgway

    • Date: January 16, 2014
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives conducts a test of a rapid digital capture setup using the Robert Ridgway Papers.

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  3. Rediscovering Historical Perspectives: A Newspaper Update on World War II

    • Date: November 11, 2014
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: In honor of Veteran's Day we talk a look at how a recently discovered newspaper illustrated how information was spread/kept secret during World War II.

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    Return of…the Beast

    • Date: October 31, 2019
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: In a return to the seasonal bonfire, we look at how fire and its suppression impacts boxed and unboxed optical disks.

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    Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude

    • Date: December 31, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of

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    Saving Face About Saving Data

    • Date: November 1, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Sorry, We're Open, by mofo, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Back in May, I wrote about a controversy that surfaced in Europe after privacy advocates revealed that in the act of collecting photographic images for its Street View application, Google was also scooping up private data from the unsecured WiFi

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    Saving the Smithsonian’s Web

    • Date: August 25, 2011
    • Description: This post is an update to Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig's post “Archiving the Smithsonian’s Presence on the Internet” from September 2, 2010. The Smithsonian Institution has had a presence on the Internet for more than sixteen years. It’s come a long way since then. Documenting the Smithsonian’s various websites falls under the purview of the Smithsonian Institution Archives...but how

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  13. Image of a bright yellow box with the word

    The Search Server is Dead, Long Live the Search Server.

    • Date: April 30, 2019
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: The Archives says goodbye to one search server while welcoming in a new one.

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    Season's Greetings from the Archives

    • Date: December 22, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Celebrating the holidays with an assortment of greeting cards from U.S. National Museum ichthyologist Isaac Ginsburg’s papers.

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  17. Smithsonian Torch article about the formation of the SI Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee, March 1992. Len Hirsch is pictured, right.

    Smithsonian GLOBE: A History

    • Date: June 6, 2017
    • Description: In celebration of Pride 2017, a look back at the history of the Smithsonian GLOBE (Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Employees) organization.

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  19. Resurrection City, National Mall, Washington, DC, 1968.

    The Smithsonian and the Poor People's Campaign

    • Date: January 17, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The Smithsonian served as neighbor to the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 and still tells its story almost 50 years later.

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  21. In a series of four negative images, men and women are pictured clapping and speaking.

    Spreading a Little Kindness Here at Smithsonian

    • Date: November 13, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Couldn’t we all use a little more warmth and kindness in the world? For World Kindness Day, we’re highlighting acts of kindness by Smithsonian employees that were featured in the staff newsletter, "The Torch."

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  23. Collage of three images showing disc fragments being placed in a plastic bag, tape being applied to the bag, and the bag being taped the cover of the enclosure.

    Stabilizing Lacquer Transcription Discs

    • Date: October 18, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Improved physical housing is one step you can take to help extend the life of your audiovisual media. Take a look at the new housing for lacquer transcription disc recordings from The World is Yours radio programs.

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