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.
Description: [caption id="attachment_4184" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Obama Billboard in Times Square, New York, January 7, 2010, Courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] Both the media and Times Square were aflutter recently over a photograph of President Obama used without permission on a huge two-sided billboard in midtown Manhattan to advertise men’s coats.
Description: Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey now has a Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers. Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey now has Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers.
Description: New Year's edition!10 years of beautiful bookish art from the Brooklyn Public Library. [via Hyperallergic]You can now tour online 9 floors and 85 permanent galleries of the British Museum which includes 80,000 artifacts. [via Open Culture]More good open access news: American Jewish literary news and opinion works spanning 2nd half of the 20th century is now available freely
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: The original, well-loved stuffed animals the characters in Winnie the Pooh books are based upon, from NYPL. [via Open Culture]If you live in Wisconsin, you'd better return those overdue library books. [via Info Docket]Art Nouveau posters, interactive lessons on WWI, silver plate photography; some of the 48,796,394 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across
Description: Today is the first day of winter. Not ready for the cold weather? It could always be worse. Ornithologist (and future tropical biologist) Neal Griffith Smith once wrote in his journal:"Still pensil [sic]. Well, I've got time and temperature to write. Just sharpened the pensil with a snow knife. We are parked smack in the middle of Southampton [Island] in a bloody windstorm. It
Description: Curator of Music and Performing Arts, Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece, National Museum of African American History and Culture, created their inaugural music exhibition, Musical Crossroads, and co-curated the grand opening music festival, Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration. #Groundbreaker
Description: Cultural historian, Dr. Ellen Roney Hughes, National Museum of American History, was a nominating committee member for the Women's Sports Hall of Fame and procured Muhammad Ali's robe and gloves from his "Rumble in the Jungle" fight against George Foreman for the museum. #Groundbreaker
Description: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, worked her way up from clerk to curator of physical anthropology researching variations of human traits from region to region over time. #Groundbreaker
Description: Elaine R.S. Hodges, scientific illustrator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1965–1996, made drawings of insects and other organisms that were frequently used by Smithsonian scientists. She was a founder of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and edited the Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration (1989). #Groundbreaker
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