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  1. Woman looking down smiling holding up decoratively patterned paper.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Deborah Stokes

    • Date: January 3, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  3. Portrait of smiling woman next to spacesuit.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amanda Young

    • Date: September 20, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Spacesuit Curator, Amanda Young, started at the National Air and Space Museum as a secretary and moved her way up to being in charge of conserving the museum's more than 200 spacesuits. #Groundbreaker

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  5. American Archives Month

    Link Love: 9/30/2016

    • Date: September 30, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Join us and other archives around the U.S. to ask questions on Twitter Wednesday, 10/5. #AskAnArchivist [via SAA]A new project looking at the role photography plays in science, with an essay from our own, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette on the credit due to scientist Rosalind Franklin. [via curator Marvin Heiferman]The International Criminal Court has ruled that destroying

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  7. 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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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Nancy Pope

    • Date: January 17, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Chief curator of the National Postal Museum’s history department, Nancy Pope has been a prolific writer popularizing postal history with fascinating stories and exhibits on zip codes, postal transportation, and postal mascots & workers! #Groundbreaker

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    Happy Valentine's: Cards from the Archives

    • Date: February 9, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Not everyone loves Valentine’s Day, but most everyone loves sweet, cuddly, zoo animals. To honor the day of chocolate and flowers next week, we invite you to send one of these guys to the one(s) you love. If you come up with fun captions, we’d love to hear from you in the comments. Print and Send Print out one of these templates and fold it twice (once horizontally, once

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  13. A Victorian Re-touch, courtesy PetaPixel.

    Link Love: 8/27/2015

    • Date: August 28, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Photshopping, Victorian-style. [via PetaPixel]A suitable home for an automotive archive; the General Motors historic carriage factory, Durant-Dort Factory One. [via Today's Motor Vehicles]New to the official Oxford Dictionary lexicon; manspreading, MacGyver, and Awesomesauce. [via InfoDocket]A massive treasure-trove of historic maps is now mobile! [via InfoDocket]50 years of

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  15. Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (1901-1986) was the Federal Minister of Health in West Germany, 1961-1966, first woman in the Bonn cabinet, and advocated for health care equality between East-West Germany.

    Women In Science Wednesday: Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt

    • Date: October 29, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly feature highlighting groundbreaking women in science.

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    Link Love: 7/15/2016

    • Date: July 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A cook's delight: 3000 vintage cookbooks now available on the Internet Archive. [via Open Culture]A growing online archive of Vernacular Typography. [via Hyperallergic]18th century toilets beget treasures! [via Huffington Post]Space travel plans? You can download the code that took America to the moon from GitHub. [via Quartz]Museums on my bucket list; Japan's museum for

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  19. Wine Label from Spain

    Link Love: 8/5/2016

    • Date: August 5, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Help transcribe wine labels for the University of California, Davis, to contribute to the understanding of the post-Prohibition wine industry. [via Hyperallergic]Getty hired its first semantic architect, Rob Sanderson, who will work on their open culture initiatives. [via Iris]A hidden Degas portrait revealed by a particle accelerator! [via NY Times]The California Academy of

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  21. Holiday table with silver utensils and star-shaped cake

    Link Love: 12/30/2016

    • Date: December 30, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: One of the oldest photo archives, the George Eastman House, recently published a quarter million photos online. [via Hyperallergic]A groundbreaking astrophysicist, Vera Rubin, who confirmed the existence of dark matter, died at 88. [via NPR]How NOT to preserve a digital archive. [via Preservica]What does Star Wars have to do with digital preservation? The Data Formats of Star

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  23. Violent Rabbits Found in Medieval Manuscripts

    Link Love: 6/3/2016

    • Date: June 3, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Yikes, who knew bunnies could be so vicious? [via Colossal]A previously unpublished story by Langston Hughes was found in the Yale Archives. [via New Yorker]Now that's dedication: A WWI soldier finished his PhD dissertation in the trenches. [via Open Culture]Bad news for the cultural heritage sector; a UN report showing climate change is putting World Heritage Icons at risk.

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