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  1. Untitled c. 1905, RU7179_Box1_F21_Heller05 [SPI_1655].

    An Ode to the Bicycle

    • Date: May 8, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Time to dust off your velocipedes and bone-shakers! The League of American Bicyclists have declared May to be “National Bike Month” and have several events lined up to celebrate biking everywhere; Bike to Work Day (May 16), Bike to School Day (May 7), and Cyclofemme (May 11) .I love picking a theme or keyword and browsing through the Smithsonian’s collections.

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  3. Smithsonian 150th Anniversary Logo, 1996. Image no. SIA2019-006021. Accession 97-069: Office of the Secretary, 150th Anniversary Program Records, 1992-1996, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Design in Archives: 150 going on 175

    • Date: August 29, 2019
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: 2022 will mark the Smithsonian's 175th Anniversary. In honor of that, we're taking a look at what some of the design work went into making the Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary celebration happen.

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  5. The Smithsonian in Wartime web exhibit

    Smithsonian in Wartime – A New Web Exhibit!

    • Date: August 9, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Announcing a new web exhibit exploring the Smithsonian’s role in the nation’s war efforts.

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  7. Oil painting of woman sitting at desk next to sunlit window.

    Link Love: 3/10/2017

    • Date: March 10, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: 2017 Women's History Month edition!Explore the changing role of female artists with Europeana. [via Europeana Twitter]The Smithsonian's Latino Center is accepting applications for their 2017 Young Ambassadors Program for graduating high school seniors! [via Smithsonian's Office of Fellowships and Internships]You can help transribe Phyllis Diller's joke file from the

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  9. Hand-drawn color graphic of spirals showing

    Link Love: 2/10/2017

    • Date: February 10, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Public domain infographics of African Americans in the 1900s by W. E. B. Du Bois. [via Public Domain Review]Big open cultural heritage news - the Met has released 375k public domain collections for free and unrestricted use! [via ARTNEWS]A world map of archives (and we're on the map!) [via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig]Some guidance on managing your digital photos and video. [via

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    Archives Puzzles: Walcott’s Wild Flowers

    • Date: November 30, 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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    Archives Puzzles: Kicking Back Like It’s 1880

    • Date: September 21, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This season, 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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  15. The Smithsonian's Arts and Industries building, southwest facing view, in Washington, D.C., by Eric Long, Smithsonian Institution.

    Link Love: 4/17/2015

    • Date: April 17, 2015
    • 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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  17. A photo of Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994).

    There Are Prizes . . . and There Are Winners

    • Date: March 6, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Nobel prizes are not the only rewards for work improving public health and making the world a better place.

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  19. A team of scientists used multiple lines of evidence, including archaeology, skeletal analyses, chemical testing, 3-D technology and genealogical research, to single out the names of the four men who died at Jamestown from 1608 through 1617. Photo by Donald E. Hurlbert.

    Link Love: 7/31/2015

    • Date: July 31, 2015
    • 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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  21. Hot Topics: From Extinct Monsters to Carousels

    • Date: January 8, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  23. Everything I Own

    • Date: February 6, 2020
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Some refer to the Smithsonian as "America's Attic." It probably earned this nickname because throughout its history, the Smithsonian has acquired artifacts, relics, paintings, personal collections, and even hair samples related to the Commander in Chief (yes, the National Museum of American History has a collection of presidential hairs!).With Presidents' Day coming up on

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