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  1. Charles Jones, “Vegetables, Bean Runner”

    Link Love: 10/28/2016

    • Date: October 28, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Beautiful 19th century images of vegetables found at a flea market, by Charles Jones. [via Hyperallergic]Saving Langley Research Center's records, and in turn, American aviation history. [via NASA]The Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Archives Center and Libraries has acquired Jane and Michael Stern's ephemera from their foodie roadtrips. [via O Say Can You

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    Digitizing photo albums and historic books (submitted via email)

    • Date: October 29, 2013
    • Description: How do I make a digital copy or physical facsimile of a historic book or photo album?

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  5. Close-up of a photograph of a snowflake with six points.

    Crafting the Archives Way!

    • Date: December 8, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I’ve been inspired by the snowflakes Wilson A. Bentley photographed through a microscope in the late 1800's ever since I first saw them in the Archives. Bentley donated 500 of his photographs to the Smithsonian in 1903 (you can read more about them in a post by Archives colleague, Courtney Esposito). The images capture nature at its most creative, mathematical, and elegant.

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    Summary of #AskArchivists Day at the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 13, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [View the story "#AskArchivists Day a Success at the Smithsonian" on Storify]

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  9. 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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    See Here: 5/10/2010

    • Date: May 10, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: Profile of the bust of Dr. William Henry Holmes, first curator of the National Collection of Fine Arts, The bust was sculpted by Moses W. Dykaar, 1922, photograph by Smithsonian Institution photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 311 Box 27 Folder 3, Negative Number: 2002-12137.

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  13. What’s not to love about slideshows?

    • Date: February 10, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    Photography's Colorful Past

    • Date: January 14, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4168" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="Albumen portrait of the Reverend Levi L. Hill, Baptist minister and early daguerreotypist, West Kill, New York and New York City, b. 1816-d. February 9, 1865. Inscription on reverse, “Levi L. Hill, Died February 9, 1865, He is Asleep in Heaven.”"][/caption] Just when we think that we must have at last

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    See Here: 5/3/2011

    • Date: May 3, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Court of Neptune Fountain, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1994."][/caption]

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  19. A woman sitting at a table looks at diamond-bearing rocks under a microscope.

    Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge

    • Date: May 5, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and

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    AVInsider: VanCamp

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    • Six women pose for a photograph. The photo is dated 8-31-30. The names of the women are written in cursive below the photo.The include: Louise A. Rosenbusch, Louise Pearson, Narcissus Smith, Helen A. Olmsted, Nellie Smith, and Margaret W. Moodey.

      Depression-Era Pen Pals: A Correspondence Between Two Hard-Working Women

      • Date: January 7, 2020
      • Description: Ruth B. MacManus and Gertrude Brown bonded over their heavy workloads and shared experiences as working women in the Great Depression. Together, they helped improve a publication that does not bear their names: the Smithsonian Scientific Series.

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