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  1. Kindergarten Classroom in Burdine, Kentucky, from the Consolidation Coal Company

    Back to School!

    • Date: September 16, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  3. Link Love: 3/27/2020

    • Date: March 27, 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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  5. New Orleans Street Parade

    • Date: December 12, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Every year at its annual conference, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) hosts an event called Archival Screening Night (ASN). ASN is a chance for moving image archivists around the world to showcase films and videos from their collections, particularly items that have recently been preserved, restored, or remastered.This film depicts the Onward Brass Band

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  7. Female peep with plaid cape standing on seashore surrounded by fossils with black cliff and blue sky.

    Link Love: 3/30/2018

    • Date: March 30, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Women's History Month edition, continued!The story of fossil seller and paleontologist Mary Anning (for whom the "She Sells Seashells" rhyme was possibly written), in Peeps. [via The Last Word on Nothing]A look at the WWI Women's Land Army composed of "farmettes" who went outside the home to address the national food shortage. [via LOC Blog]For 25 cents an hour, less than

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  9. Wikipedians Hard at Work, Photo courtesy of Effie Kapsalis.

    Inside a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

    • Date: June 8, 2012
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Get an inside-look at a Wikipedia edit-a-thon and learn how you can volunteer for the Smithsonian even if you don't live nearby.

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  11. Winter’s arrival brings the annual increase of requests for photos by Wilson A.

    Hot Topics in Archives Research

    • Date: February 18, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  13. Lightning Fast Legislation for the National Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: November 29, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Twenty-nine years ago yesterday the National Museum of the American Indian Act was signed and the Museum of the American Indian became part of the Smithsonian family.

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  15. Animated photo of two men by space capsule, one man has finger on it while the other vaporizes.

    Link Love: 12/1/2017

    • Date: December 1, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Surreal, doctored historic images by Nicolas Monterrat. [via Colossal]Europeana announced the winners of the 2017 Gif It Up competition! [via Europeana blog]Chinese researchers are starting the daunting task of digitizing more than 200,000 volumes of Mongolian books and documents, including a rare Mongolian version of the Tibetan Buddhist classic Kangyur from 1720. [via

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  17. Ursula Marvin lies on her stomach to look into ice. A colleague kneels next to her, taking notes.

    100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History

    • Date: January 6, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Geologist Dr. Ursula Marvin studied Moon rocks from the Apollo missions and meteorites in Antarctica. Throughout her career with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Marvin championed women in science. She delivered lectures about her own experiences as a woman in geology and participated in programing to help advance women's careers. She was likely inspired to support

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  19. James T. Tanner's photographs of the ivory-billed woodpecker with guide

    Link Love: 5/11/2012

    • Date: May 11, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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. Berlandier Fish (Pimelodus maculatus), Record Unit 7052 - Jean Louis Berlandier Papers, Box 12, Folder 14, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Jean Louis Berlandier: The Path from Geneva to Mexico

    • Date: June 5, 2014
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief narrative on Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, and one of the first scientists to observe, collect , and document the natural history specimens of southeastern Texas and northeastern Mexico.

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  23. Eucosma ragonoti barnesiana Dyar, 1903, Collected by Harrison G. Dyar, National Museum of Natural History.

    The Impossible Case of Harrison G. Dyar

    • Date: May 12, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Starting tomorrow through next week, we will be digging into the life of entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929). Dyar was honorary custodian of the Smithsonian's United States National Museum's collection of Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, etc.) for more than thirty years. As a scientist, Dyar was noted for his work concerning mosquito-borne diseases. He also developed a

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