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  1. Protection of Collections during Retrofit or Renovation

    • Date: May 2, 2019
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Yesterday, we celebrated MayDay2019 by reviewing the contents of Nora’s PRICE team go-bag, which you can explore in this Facebook Live, courtesy of the Foundation for the Advancement of Conservation!This MayDay post comes to you at a time when cultural heritage disasters on a mass scale are fresh in people’s minds. Paying attention to high visibility events offers opportunity

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  3. A woman sitting at a table looks at diamond-bearing rocks under a microscope.

    Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge

    • Date: May 5, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and

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    The Puget Sound Biological Station

    • Date: August 25, 2022
    • Description: We’re exploring the storied history of Friday Harbor Labs, a MarineGEO site, in Washington State.

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  7. Here at the Smithsonian: Modern Japanese Art

    • Date: May 25, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.

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    Seen From the Edge

    • Date: April 6, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Link Love: 6/26/2015

    • Date: June 26, 2015
    • 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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    Looking for Women Managers of the Smithsonian’s Museums

    • Date: March 16, 2022
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: When did women begin to manage Smithsonian museums? Meet Grace Dunham Guest who was a key staff member in opening the Freer Gallery of Art in 1923.

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    The Mystery of the Art Room Frieze

    • Date: June 19, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9668,size=200,left]The Art Room, a greatly scaled down successor to the Smithsonian’s original 1857 Gallery of Art, is located on the second floor of the Smithsonian Building (the Castle). It was designed in 1899 by the architectural firm Hornblower and Marshall to house the Smithsonian’s collection of prints and drawings. When the room was first

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  17. Star-Spangled Banner, by Dane Penland

    Happy Birthday USA!

    • Date: July 4, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: On July 4, 2013 the Smithsonian Institution Archives wants to wish the USA a happy birthday!

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  19. Woman with blue flowy floral dress standing in front of impressionist artwork with same colors.

    Link Love: 10/27/2017

    • Date: October 27, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: When museum visitors match the artwork. [via artFido]The Smithsonian's Secretary, David Skorton, is convening thought-leaders to discuss critical issues Americans are facing, starting with immigration. The International Federation of Television Archives' Innovation award went to Radio.Garden, a website that allows you to browse radio stream geographically. [via Sound and

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  21. Roslyn A. Walker stands at the center of a large group posing for a picture. The label above the title reads:

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Roslyn A. Walker

    • Date: June 3, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Roslyn A. Walker was the Director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art from 1997 to 2002. Under her leadership, the Museum welcomed a new permanent gallery for contemporary art, a development office, and the Friends of African Art support committee. From 1981 until her appointment, Walker had worked at the Museum as a curator, specializing in Nigerian art.

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  23. Wiki Loves Monuments

    Link Love: 9/16/2016

    • Date: September 16, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Lend a hand to "Wiki Loves Monuments" to improve Wikipedia articles about U.S. historic sites. The Banned Book Handbook, 2016 edition. [via Info Docket]Didn't get tickets to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum opening? You can still attend the surrounding festival featuring The Roots and Public Enemy! [via NY Times]The first

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