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  1. Free NASA Posters, image courtesy NASA/JPL.

    Link Love: 02/19/2016

    • Date: February 19, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Don't miss out on getting your copy of these beautiful NASA space travel posters. [via The Drive]GPS art by bicycle. [via bored panda]448 free art books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [via Open Culture]Learn how to archive institutional email from two of our own. [via Library of Congress]A new 3D scan of Apollo 11 reveals astronaut graffiti depicting flight plans, a

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  3. Cynthia Adams Hoover, Curator of Musical Instruments, National Museum of American History

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Cynthia Adams Hoover

    • Date: June 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Cynthia Adams Hoover was Curator of Musical Instruments, National Museum of American History, for over 40 years, co-founded the American Musical Instrument Society, and is an expert on the history of the piano. #Groundbreaker

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  5. Smiling woman with illustration in background

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mary Parrish

    • Date: May 10, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Scientific illustrator Mary Parrish, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, collaborates with paleobiologists to show the public what extinct landcapes looked like. #Groundbreaker

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    Research at the Archives: Finding Grasses for the South

    • Date: May 26, 2011
    • Description: As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History, I’ve spent months in the Smithsonian Institution Archives researching a book tentatively titled, Not Naturally a Grass Country: Environment, Plant Genetics, and the Quest for Agricultural Modernization in the Humid World. It’s largely a story about global attempts to replace one form of agriculture—the

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  9. Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on May 17, 1957, by George Tames, courtesy NY Times.

    Link Love: 2/5/16

    • Date: February 5, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The New York Times just released previously unpublished photos documenting black history. [via New York Times]The wait is nearly over: Opening day of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is September 24th, 2016. [via Washington Post]Just released: A new guide to help artists preserve their studio archives. [via Artists' Studio Archives]A

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  11. Close-up photograph of Peggy A. Loar.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Peggy A. Loar

    • Date: April 14, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    Wait. Did That Really Happen? Snake Smashin’

    • Date: April 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Explore what happened in 1969 when a man brought a hatchet and butcher knife to Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to attack a display of snakes.

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  15. Rudi Gernreich, 1967, by Boris Chaliapin, National Portrait Gallery.

    Who Wore What and When?

    • Date: August 31, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Savage Beauty, the posthumous and retrospective exhibition of women’s fashions designed by Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art closed early in August. The record breaking event—an official attendance count of 661,509 visitors made it the eighth biggest show in the museum’s history—featured approximately one hundred ensembles drawn, primarily,

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  17. Boring Samples in the Victorian Garden

    Twenty-Six and Blooming!

    • Date: May 22, 2013
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Today is the anniversary of the opening of the Enid A. Haupt Garden at the Quad near the Smithsonian Institution Building.

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  19. Link Love: 2/8/2013

    • Date: February 8, 2013
    • 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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  21. Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects

    • Date: October 15, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.

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  23. Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck.

    Link Love: 12/28/2012

    • Date: December 28, 2012
    • 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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