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    Colors of photography – digital conservation on faded prints

    • Date: December 18, 2018
    • Creator: Charles Zange
    • Description: A few attempts to roll back the color shift on faded prints from 1955

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    Return of…the Beast

    • Date: October 31, 2019
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: In a return to the seasonal bonfire, we look at how fire and its suppression impacts boxed and unboxed optical disks.

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  5. The top portion of a parchment membrane with a wavy top edge is shown; dark, heavy, Gothic-style lettering appears at the top along with flourishes, and is also scattered throughout the text, as are words in forward-slanting italic writing.

    Celebrating Handwriting with the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: January 21, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Handwriting is a personal passion of mine, despite it having become something of a lost art. Today, when most people think of handwriting at all, it is as a greatly individual method of writing recognizable characters, regardless of the writing system, but in the past, when you could make a living as a scribe, there were highly standardized styles.

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  7. Detailed view of Mylar corners for panoramic housing.

    Perplexing Panoramas: Taking Charge of Housing Oversized Collections

    • Date: September 1, 2016
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: With the ongoing reorganization of the map cases at the Archives, collections containing panoramic photographs, drawings, and maps require unique housing that provides adequate support when storing and handling.

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  9. Letter from William Elliot to John Quincy Adams, President of the Columbian Institute, December 19, 1822

    Letter from William Elliot to John Quincy Adams, President of the Columbian Institute, December 19, 1822

    • Date: 1822 December 19, 1822

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  11. Unrolled group of graphic recordings showing just how large and unwieldy these records are. Photo by William Bennett, 2015. Accession 09-296 - Office of the Secretary, Strategic Planning Records, 2009, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease: A Custom Storage Solution for an Unusual Collection

    • Date: February 5, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Unusual sized and shaped items can be a challenge in archives—here’s how our conservation staff dealt with a particularly tricky accession.

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    Quick Tips for Preserving Your Family’s Past

    • Date: November 26, 2019
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: As the holiday season approaches, here are a few quick tips on some preservation strategies for your family’s treasures.

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  15. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 10-158, National Zoological Park (U.S.) Department of Zoological Research, Animal Research Records, circa 1966-1984

    • Date: 1966 1966-1984 circa 1966-1984
    • Creator: National Zoological Park. Department of Zoological Research
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  17. Letter to Willem de Kooning from Joseph Hirshhorn, November 15, 1967. Record Unit 7449 - Joseph H. Hirshhorn Papers, circa 1926-1982 and undated. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    The Artist, The Collector, and Quality Correspondence in midst of the Digital Era

    • Date: August 19, 2014
    • Description: Archived correspondence between Joseph Hirshhorn and modern artists Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall bring light to the means in which we communicate artist to collector relationships in the digital era.

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  19. Stapled sheet of paper with a red and blue background and an image of a baseball player, wearing a Pirates jersey, kneeling with a baseball bat in the grass. The title on the page is

    I.D. This! Solid Ink Inkjet Print

    • Date: June 18, 2019
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Material and process identification is the key to a robust preservation strategy!

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  21. The World Is Yours: Rockets and Planets

    • Date: February 18, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Rockets and Planets.”

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  23. Members of the Advisory Committee of scientists directing arrangements for the National Geographic Society - U.S. Army Air Force Stratosphere Flight

    Members of the Advisory Committee of scientists directing arrangements for the National Geographic Society - U.S. Army Air Force Stratosphere Flight

    • Date: 1934

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