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  1. Rafinesque’s drawings of tortoises observed along the Ohio River, 1818.

    Link Love: 4/13/2012

    • Date: April 13, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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. A screenshot of Cambridge University Library’s new digital archive of Newton.

    Link Love: 12/16/2011

    • Date: December 16, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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: 10/21/2011

    • Date: October 21, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Researching the Smithsonian's History | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    • A screenshot of the new Cooper-Hewitt blog, Cooper-Hewitt Labs.

      Link Love: 1/27/2012

      • Date: January 27, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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: 7/1/2011

      • Date: July 1, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Note: I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks, so look for Link Love to start again on July 22nd! We’ve been blogging about the Civil War and the Smithsonian for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, and others across the Smithsonian have been doing the same. Over at NPR’s Picture show blog, photography curator Shannon Perich shares some incredible animated Civil War-era

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    • Shortsnout Scorpionfish X-Ray, 1908, Photo Sandra J. Raredon.

      Link Love: 3/16/2012

      • Date: March 16, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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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    • Four African American boys with three dogs and a bicycle in an alley cluttered with trash, by Robert S. Scurlock, color photoprint. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, image no. AC0618-002-0000003.

      Link Love: 8/7/2015

      • Date: August 7, 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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      Link Love: 8/12/2011

      • Date: August 12, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: The Smithsonian’s Around the Mall blog has an interview with our Smithsonian Historian, Pam Henson, about the famous, real-life Smokey the Bear (you can also read our earlier post on the subject). Need to get a 17th century recipe for almond cakes? The Wellcome Library’s online Recipe Manuscripts is the place for you. This is a really fun collection to browse [via Marcel

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    • Archival document held by weights with artist brush nearby.

      A Medal-y of Materials: Preserving a Small, yet Robust, Collection

      • Date: August 31, 2017
      • Description: As the Preservation Intern at the Archives this summer, my main project was part of a massive re-organization of the oversized map cases at the Archives. An introduction to that project can be found in blog posts by previous interns, Caitria Sunderland and Margaret Rose Hunt. However, when taking breaks from the cool climate of collections storage, I worked on rehousing the

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    • It its collection, the National Museum of American History has a fallout shelter

      Link Love: 5/18/2012

      • Date: May 18, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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: 6/10/2011

      • Date: June 10, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: It turns out that a series of mysterious tunnels discovered in the early 1900s underneath Washington, DC’s Dupont Circle, were the makings of former Smithsonian employee and entomologist, Harrison G. Dyar (whose papers happen to be in our collections). Read more about this fascinating story and character at "the location" blog [via The e-Torch]. The Internet Archive explains

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