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    Someone to Watch Over Me . . .

    • Date: June 25, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="222" caption="In the City Where Nobody Cares, by unidentified photographer, 1910, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] A couple of years ago, as soon as Google’s Street View application was introduced, it generated worldwide controversy. Ground-level photographic images, shot from cameras

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  3. Happy New Year from the Archives!

    Happy New Year! ! !

    • Date: December 31, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Happy 2014 from the staff of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  5. T-rex selfie from Royal Ontario Museum.

    Link Love: 1/22/16

    • Date: January 22, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: We've got your snow day browsing covered!Even the T-rex got into #museumselfie day Wednesday (please no selfie sticks.)To mark the passing of David Bowie, the Cincinnati Zoo named their baby penguin "Bowie." [via Mental Floss]Amelia Earhart's advice to a girl interested in becoming a pilot. [via Slate, The Vault]Dig into the sketchbooks of artist Richard Diebenkorn, 29 of

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    A Day for Electronic Records

    • Date: October 10, 2017
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Today is the day to shine the spotlight on electronic records, as Oct 10 marks the sixth Electronic Records Day.Sponsored by the Council of State Archivists (CoSA), this day is “to raise awareness among state government agencies, the general public, related professional organizations, and other stakeholders about the crucial role electronic records play in their world.” CoSA

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    Clean Sweep in the New Year: Organizing Digital Photos

    • Date: January 4, 2011
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Keep the click! Stories Coming!

    • Date: April 9, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_450" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Yes we cancan have peace!"][/caption] As you can see from the exuberant photo above, we’ve been getting some great visitor contributions to our most recent click! photography changes everything call for entry in honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. We just published the first visitor

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    Link Love: 6/18/2010

    • Date: June 18, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Arch Bridge, Keene NH, by Genuine Curteich, Chicago IL, Photographic postcard, Keene Public Library, Resource Identifier: hsykbrg008."][/caption] Wahoo! New folks on the Flickr Commons: The Reykjavik Museum of Photography and the Keene and Cheshire County (NH) Historical Photos. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA] This year is the

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Nancy J. Bechtol

    • Date: February 26, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Nancy J. Bechtol has supervised all facilities engineering and management needs across the Smithsonian as director of Smithsonian Facilities since 2012. Previously, Bechtol was the director of Smithsonian Gardens, 1995–2002, and director of the Office of Facilities Management and Reliability, 2002–2012. #Groundbreaker

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    Ecards for Women's History Month

    • Date: March 16, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Women's History Month is not only a good month to recognize and learn about inspiring women who have come before us, it is also the time to recognize women in our own lives who make a difference. If you have a mother, daughter, sister, spouse, or friend you'd like to recognize, drop her a line. For women who are inclined to a life of adventure, you may to send the Charlotte

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    Link Love: 7/9/2010

    • Date: July 9, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="194" caption="Painting found in Yale Art Gallery's storage, Attributed to Diego Velázquez, The Education of the Virgin (detail shown), ca. 1617–18. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery."][/caption] Golly gee—sometimes some pretty incredible things are found in museum storage [via @museumnerd]. I worked peripherally on MIT’s

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    Less is More With Compressed Scanning

    • Date: March 3, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Window Necklace, by Hoong Wei Long, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] For those who continue to believe that bigger is better—that you’re better off, for example, the more megapixels your digital camera delivers—a recent article by Jordan Ellenberg in WIRED magazine suggests the opposite may be true.

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  23. Front Cover of the Cosmos Club Bulletin, April 1967, Vol. 20, No. 4.

    The Miscellaneous Materials of Oscar Cartwright

    • Date: May 30, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures dives into the Oscar L. Cartwright Papers and materials from Washington D.C.'s Cosmos Club.

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