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  1. Circular tin cans for film that are stacked on top of one another. Slight rust is visible,

    Preserving Smithsonian World, The First Steps

    • Date: May 21, 2019
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: As a result of a generous grant, the Archives will soon catalogue and rehouse around 1,750 at-risk audiovisual media related to Smithsonian World.

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    Watch Now: Today is Archives Fair

    • Date: October 19, 2012
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Tune into a live webcast of the Smithsonian's 2012 Archives Fair to watch the lecture series on "Revealing Hidden Treasures."

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  5. Expedition photo by Lonnie Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, Ohio State University from The Habitable Planet.

    Archiving Born-Digital Media from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

    • Date: October 27, 2020
    • Description: We’ve been processing audiovisual media collections from the Science Media Group division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

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    Archives Reveal How Cities Change: Photos of DC from the Early 1900s

    • Date: August 25, 2010
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently digitized over 300 images of Washington, D.C. from the 1920s. Read more about the collection here, and check out the photographs, which are now available on Smithsonian Collections Search Center as well as on the Flickr Commons. Intern Amanda Kaufman writes about the collection, which she helped digitize this summer, below. How

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  9. A cat and her kittens.

    Staff Check-In: Befriending Kittens, Carving Ducks, and Perfecting the Art of the Biscuit

    • Date: July 14, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Nearly four months into Smithsonian’s extended telework period, we thought it would be fun to share which skills and hobbies have been getting us through this overwhelming time.

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  11. Close up photograph of Motley.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sabrina Lynn Motley

    • Date: July 7, 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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  13. Kira Sobers works on an audio reel-to-reel tape recorder. It has two tape wheels and many buttons.

    What Our Experts Want You to Know About Digitization

    • Date: May 19, 2020
    • Description: Our digitization experts answer questions about the complicated and time-consuming process of digitizing our collections.

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  15. Remembering the Reopening of Two Smithsonian Museums

    • Date: July 1, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: After extensive renovations of the Old Patent Office Building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture held a grand opening July 1, 2006.

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    We Don't Know about You, But We’re Feeling (20)22

    • Date: December 30, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Despite another year of telework and limited physical access to our collections, the Smithsonian Institution Archives has continued to serve our researchers and share more of our collections with the public.

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    The Woman with the Gramophone

    • Date: April 2, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Save Our Sounds Postcard, Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] For the last few years, I’ve had this postcard up in my office promoting Save Our Sounds, a program by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Library of Congress dedicated to restoring,

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  21. Faust holds her hands clasped in front of her. She is not smiling at the camera.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Maria A. Faust

    • Date: May 11, 2022
    • 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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    Gone But Never Forgotten

    • Date: December 17, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="341" caption="Funeral home, Date unknown, by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Scurlock Studio Records, 1905-1994, Call No. 0618.239244."][/caption] The Smithsonian has millions of pictures organized in hundreds of subject based

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