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  1. Digital Video Preservation: Continuing the Conversation

    • Date: January 3, 2013
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Preserving digital video is no easy task, but fortunately, there are tools that can help.

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  3. Janet Harmon Bragg: Female Aviator

    • Date: March 22, 2011
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about interesting women from our collections in honor of Women’s History Month. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of watching the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Video History Collection interviews while they were digitized. One of my favorites is Black Aviators (RU 9545) because of

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    Giving New Life to Old Media

    • Date: May 19, 2022
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Advances in technology have helped to bring new life to media that is unplayable via traditional means.

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  7. Here At The Smithsonian: The History of Aviation

    • Date: September 28, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Let’s take a look at some of the collections at the National Air and Space Museum.

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    Robert Kennicott and the Western Union Telegraph Expedition

    • Date: September 21, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14715,size=250,left] By now you have probably heard of Robert Kennicott, either because of his involvement with the Megatherium Club, or because of the article and blog post on his death that was published last year. I, however, tend to associate him with the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, a collecting mission to Alaska that proved to be his last.

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  11. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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  13. Hirshhorn walks in front of O'Keeffe near a home in the mountains. Hirshhorn is wearing a long coat and O'Keeffe is wearing a hat. Hirshhorn is smiling at the camera.

    The Room That Could Have Been

    • Date: November 11, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Artist Georgia O’Keeffe and the Hirshhorns had a friendly relationship. Read about how the two almost negotiated a deal to create a room dedicated to her work at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

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