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    1. A Salute to Scrapbooks

      • Date: May 6, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In honor of National Scrapbooking Month, the Archives highlights the scrapbook of William and Lucile Mann from their trip to Argentina in 1939.

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    3. Another scrapbook, previously disbound, in much worse condition. See a previous archivist’s insert on the right, presumably assessing the book’s condition: “A hideous example of what happens to records which are left to the tender graces of time.” Courtesy of Marie Desrochers.

      Mending Tissues and More: Stabilizing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbooks for Digitization

      • Date: August 25, 2015
      • Description: Intern Marie Desrochers details her experience with co-intern Sarah Casto, stabilizing and rehousing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbook collection at Archives of American Art.

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      An Intern’s Perspective on Preserving Scrapbooks and Conserving Blueprints

      • Date: August 30, 2018
      • Description: Preservation intern discusses working with oversize materials in the Archives collection, including information on the creation of custom enclosures, surface cleaning of blueprints, and humidification.

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    7. Green book cover with gold writing.

      A New Solution for an Old Scrapbook

      • Date: November 14, 2017
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: The Archives recently received several scrapbooks created by Elizabeth C. Reed during her husband's tenure as Director of the National Zoological Park (NZP). These scrapbooks contain information about noteworthy events and consist mostly of newspaper clippings gathered from newspapers around the country. Anyone who's attempted to preserve scrapbooks can tell you it's a bit of

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    9. Book opened to show two pages. The lefthand page is blank and the righthand page contains the beginning of an article titled “Address of Norman J. Colman before the Missouri Editors and Publishers’ Association.”

      Not Your Average Scrapbook

      • Date: November 3, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: A scrapbook isn’t always a collection of photographs and memorabilia. For C.V. Riley, it was a place to keep articles.

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    11. Pink Scrapbook with Blank Cover, by pd_THOR, Creative Commons.

      Cut and Paste, Old Style

      • Date: September 13, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Some years back, and for what seemed like quite a while, people were talking about scrapbooking. As more aspects of everyday life were going digital, it felt like more and more people were paying homage to the paper-based mementoes of their experiences that appeared to be heading for oblivion. Quickly, and to support all the saving, trimming, and gluing that people were

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    13. From blog post “Thanks(giving) for the memories—a preservation family project”.

      Link Love: 11/18/2011

      • Date: November 18, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    15. Link Love: 07/17/2020

      • Date: July 17, 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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    17. The original black-paged album, a document box with archival file folders for historic documents and oversize pictures, and the new preservation album, with the photos stabilized with Mylar corners (also, note a piece of thick paper, acrylic square, and the small glass frog paperweight, which were placed on the photograph to keep it in place while the corners were slipped on from the sides).

      Thanks(giving) for the memories—a preservation family project

      • Date: November 24, 2010
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: When you’re all gathered together, sometimes there are just too many cooks in the kitchen, or younger siblings underfoot. Not everyone is into football or jigsaw puzzles, so why not gather together a couple of people from separate generations and branches of the family tree and do some photo identification and preservation? Set aside an hour between or after the meal to pull

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    19. 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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    21. We discuss strategies to preserve brittle black page albums.

      Ask the Smithsonian, Again!

      • Date: October 4, 2011
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    23. Stratosphere on the Street in Washington D.C., April 15, 1936, by Ruel P. Tolman, Record Unit 7433 - Ruel P. Tolman Collection, 1909-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2011-2366 or 32233-3.

      A Mysterious Sphere

      • Date: July 24, 2014
      • Description: Can you help identify this exploration vessel and what it’s doing on the streets of Washington?

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