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    1. Materials drying outside the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

      Link Love: 11/8/2013

      • Date: November 8, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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    3. Drop us a line!

      • Date: July 6, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: We’re getting into the middle of the summer months and many of us have vacation or travel planned. Whether you’re hopping across the globe, or planning a “staycation” at home, take a trip virtually by browsing through some of the delightful postcards in the Smithsonian’s collections.

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      Coming Soon: Smithsonian 175th Film Fest

      • Date: August 5, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Grab your popcorn! To mark the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary this year, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives will host monthly virtual programs featuring films from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Register today.

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      Archives Puzzles: 100 Years of the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 23, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    9. Leech jars, as seen at the New York Academy of Medicine. Courtesy of Nora Lockshin. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

      Leeches ’n Labels

      • Date: October 29, 2015
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: Terrifying tips for marking on museum objects lurks within our annual Halloween themed post.

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    11. Sophie G. Lutterlough c. 2008, photographer unknown, www.tributes.com.

      “It Won’t Be Easy to Leave after 40 Years”: Sophie Lutterlough’s Career at the National Museum of Natural History

      • Date: February 16, 2016
      • Description: This post discusses the contributions of Sophie Lutterlough to the National Museum of Natural History.

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    13. Rescuing Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child, Altaussee, 1945. Thomas Carr Howe Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

      Link Love: 2/7/2014

      • Date: February 7, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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    15. Link Love: 01/22/2021

      • Date: January 22, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • 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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      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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      Link Love: 11/29/2013

      • Date: November 29, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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      Link Love: 10/10/2014

      • Date: October 10, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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    23. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

      The Life Work of Smillie

      • Date: July 15, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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