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      Link Love: 12/14/2018

      • Date: December 14, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • 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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    3. Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station and Tracks, 1882, Harpers Weekly, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78090.

      Quidditch in Henry Park?

      • Date: April 3, 2014
      • Description: This coming weekend muggles from around the world will be participating in the International Quidditch Association’s World Cup; but did you know that this growing sport may have a Smithsonian connection?

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      Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

      • Date: February 1, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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      See Here: 8/23/2010

      • Date: August 23, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Fabrics of the Future Exhibit installed in a display window at the Woodward & Lothrop Department Store, G and 12th Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C, The exhibit featured such synthetic fabrics as nylon and rayon, c. 1938-1939, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit

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    9. Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

      • Date: March 31, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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      Link Love: 9/14/2018

      • Date: September 14, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • 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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      A New Look at the Smithsonian: Louise Hutchinson

      • Date: September 29, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Louise Hutchinson taught us about African American history in Washington, D.C., and in the Smithsonian itself.

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      The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian

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    17. Link Love: 07/24/2020

      • Date: July 24, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Smithsonian Magazine shares reflections on John Lewis’s legacy at the Smithsonian and beyond. [via Smithsonian Magazine] The newly renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library awaits its first patrons! [via Washington Post][edan-image:id=siris_arc_389626,size=450,center]Paleontologist Lee Hall offers a handy (claw-y) guide to digging up dinosaur bones. [via Mateusz

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    19. Color photograph of the National Postal Museum building taken from across the street.

      The National Postal Museum Still Delivers After 25 Years

      • Date: September 25, 2018
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: 25 years ago the National Postal Museum first opened its doors to the public.

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      150 Years Ago: Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

      • Date: April 14, 2015
      • Description: In New York City when he heard of Lincoln’s assassination, Secretary Joseph Henry returned to Washington for the president’s funeral.

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      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2019

      • Date: June 25, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Here are some of the highlights of the research conducted this spring at SIA.

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