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  1. Let this 1935 photo serve as our control group. Note the men are wearing suits, vests, and ties. The women follow suit (excuse the pun) — one of them even sports a tie. Ladies wear hats.

    It Suits Me

    • Date: September 24, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Changes in the way Americans dress over 30 years of group photos.

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  3. Kensington stone, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s - , Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 38110a.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: June 10, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  5. Hot Topics In Archives Research

    • Date: July 9, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  7. Samuel P. Langley studying flight of birds, 1901, Record Unit 95: Photograph Collection, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MAH-21444.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: March 12, 2015
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly review of topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  9. Blog Post

    Finding the Thousand Words Behind the Picture

    • Date: March 31, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: You know the old cliché—“A picture is worth a thousand words.” But is it true in every case? A simple portrait from 60 years ago may give some clues to period hairstyle and dress, but none to where the photo was taken or why the person was noteworthy. Sources now available on the internet, such as the Historic newspaper database, Proquest, and even YouTube—give Smithsonian

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    Buster Keaton’s Donation to the Smithsonian

    • Date: May 4, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: One of the things we do here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) is keep track of original records about donors and the objects they have given to the Smithsonian—and so we have donor and accession records dating back to our earliest years. Because of this, it’s common to receive a reference request beginning something like, “My great-great grandmother donated a

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