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    Link Love: 4/20/2018

    • Date: April 20, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: When Mickey Mouse was used in war propaganda. [via National Museum of American History]NASA is on the search for new planets. [via BBC]The Initiative for Open Citations is attempting to make an open repository of citations. [via Boing Boing]Benjamin Franklin's papers are now online at Library of Congress. [via LOC blog]Service training for DC police officers — a visit to the

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    See Here: 11/8/2010

    • Date: November 8, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="Smithsonian's pilot aluminum-can recycling program started early in February 1990. Forty-four containers like the one pictured were placed at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), National Air and Space Museum, and the Museum Support Center, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley,

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  5. Link Love: 8/07/2020

    • Date: August 7, 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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    Check Out New National Air and Space Museum Photos

    • Date: June 11, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1319" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="AIR TRANSPORT, AIRLINES, USA., 1950s, by Rudy Arnold, National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division "][/caption] As my colleague Effie mentioned back in April, the Smithsonian has been working hard to provide the public with a way to search across the Smithsonian’s diverse digital collections. New

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  9. This satellite image was captured by DigitalGlobe’s GeoEye-1 satellite on October 6, 2014. Credit: Portrait by artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada, commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery; Satellite image collected by DigitalGlobe.

    Link Love: 10/24/2014

    • Date: October 24, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  11. Dr. Patricia Gossel, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Patricia Gossel

    • Date: November 30, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Patricia Gossel, chairman of the Science, Medicine and Society Division, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, established the history of biology collection at the museum, studied the history of the contraceptive pill, and published more than two dozen scholarly articles before her death. #Groundbreaker

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    Link Love: 8/13/2010

    • Date: August 13, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="147" caption="Walt Whitman, 1875, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Chalk on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund, 1980.73."][/caption] Fascinating interview with poet Robert Roper, who dug into the National Archives to examine the moving letters poet Walt Whitman wrote to family

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    Tichkematse—A Great Favorite at the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 25, 2021
    • Description: A forerunner of today’s efforts to decolonize and Indigenize American museums, Tichkematse was one of the first Native American employees at the Smithsonian Institution. His work with natural history and anthropological collections continue to inspire Native and non-Native museum professionals nearly 150 years later.

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  17. The Secret Treasure Vault that Might Have Been

    • Date: September 20, 2012
    • Description: During World War II, a plan to build a secret collections vault under a memorial to Oliver Wendell Holmes in Washington, DC.

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    Link Love: 6/25/2010

    • Date: June 25, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7220" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Reflections, 1978, by Werner Drewes, Color woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1979.39 (left); and Quilt Pattern inspired by Drewes' woodcut and generated by the V&A's Patchwork Pattern Maker (right)."][/caption] Wow—the possibilities are endless. The Victoria & Albert Museum

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    Happy 50th Anniversary NMAH!

    • Date: January 23, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Museum of American History which opened on January 23, 1964.

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  23. Oil painting of woman sitting at desk next to sunlit window.

    Link Love: 3/10/2017

    • Date: March 10, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: 2017 Women's History Month edition!Explore the changing role of female artists with Europeana. [via Europeana Twitter]The Smithsonian's Latino Center is accepting applications for their 2017 Young Ambassadors Program for graduating high school seniors! [via Smithsonian's Office of Fellowships and Internships]You can help transribe Phyllis Diller's joke file from the

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