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  1. National Museum of History and Technology flag

    Happy 100th Flag Day!

    • Date: June 14, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: In celebration of Flag Day, a look at the series of flags designed for the Smithsonian’s museums and research centers, 1965.

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    Mourning National Disaster at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

    • Date: January 28, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: When tragedy struck during the space shuttle era, mourners found a place to honor the fallen astronauts of the tragic Challenger and Columbia flights at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

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  5. Photos courtesy Zak Jensen & Andrea Shea/WBUR

    Link Love: 1/15/16

    • Date: January 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Harvard's pigment collection. [via Collossal]Also with gorgeous colors, a 700+ page Dutch book from 1692 documenting "every color in the spectrum." [via Open Culture] A new online exhibit examining what it's like to work in the U.S. on a H-1B visa from the Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center. [via Smithsonian Magazine] Later this year, scientists (including our own

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  7. Worn portrait of man sitting cross-legged in wooden chair next to a table with a lamp and books.

    Link Love: 10/13/2017

    • Date: October 13, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own

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    Please Feed the Visitors!

    • Date: August 3, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7706" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="First eBook made by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media, August 2, 2010"]You [/caption] Update: You can read a follow-up post about the Anthologize project and process here. As Head of Web & New Media, I'm always looking for ways we can engage visitors with our papers, photographs,

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  11. Reference form for inquiries and use of collections, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Many Hands Make Light Work in the Digitization Process

    • Date: September 11, 2014
    • Description: Digitizing collection material at the Smithsonian Institution Archives is a group effort involving interns, volunteers, and staff.

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  13. Link Love: 1/17/2020

    • Date: January 17, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Celebrate Valentine's Day with Alfred Kinsey: Expert on all things Love and Sexuality

    • Date: February 14, 2018
    • Creator: Matt Peterson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_297388,size=800,center]From all of us here at the Smithsonian Archives we wish you nothing but love and affection this Valentine's Day.Enjoy this image of Dr. Kinsey of the Kinsey Institute, an organization dedicated to changing the world's understanding of human sexuality, from the Science Service Collection, a not-for-profit founded to increase and

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  17. Interior view of two visitors looking at a skeleton with prosthetics behind glass.

    Happy National Inventors Day!

    • Date: February 11, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: We wish you a Happy National Inventors Day and invite you to check out the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History!

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    Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers: Smithsonian Volunteers

    • Date: April 19, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12022,size=250,left]Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since its earliest years. The Institution has always been “dependent on the kindness of strangers.” Volunteers make tremendous contributions to Smithsonian operations every day in virtually every corner of the globe. The Smithsonian's paid staff of some 6,000 employees is

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  21. A Conservator Abroad: Paper Conservation in Japan

    • Date: November 16, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Nearly two years ago, I first heard of a course on the conservation of Japanese paper co-organized by ICCROM, the cultural heritage arm of UNESCO, and the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (also known in Japanese as “Tobunken”). Over three weeks, the course offered a first-hand look at the traditional Japanese conservation techniques, materials, and

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  23. Camping Out, Smithsonian-Style

    • Date: June 10, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See how Smithsonian scientists have always been willing to do what is needed to further their research—including camping in all conditions!

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