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      Missed Connections

      • Date: February 3, 2022
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: For Valentine’s Day, we’re digging into some local love stories that started at the Smithsonian.

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    3. An American bison stands in the snow. It looks toward the camera.

      Serendipity and Unexpected Connections

      • Date: April 23, 2020
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: Sometimes the research process reveals more than an answer to a single question. This is the story of the Smithsonian bison that inspired the “Buffalo Bill.”

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      Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

      • Date: August 18, 2020
      • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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      Can You Relate? Connecting SIA Collections with Themes in the Transcription Center

      • Date: July 16, 2013
      • Description: How Transcription Center themes open connections for Smithsonian Archives' collections that create relatedness, unveil stories, and ask new questions.

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      The Smithsonian’s First Woman Employee: Jane W. Turner, Librarian

      • Date: March 27, 2014
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Jane Turner was the first paid female employee at the Smithsonian, eventually becoming the Smithsonian’s Librarian.

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    11. History of the National Mall. Text by Patricia Wilson Carr. Graphic by Varinia Telleria, Laris Karklis and Samuel Granados. Washington Post.

      Link Love: 9/18/2015

      • Date: September 18, 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: 3/2/2012

      • Date: March 2, 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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    15. Watson Davis’s handwritten notes on the day he first met John Thomas Scopes in June 1925. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Science Service: Up Close

      • Date: May 19, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a

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    17. A screenshot of the Smithsonian’s mobile website as it appears on the Internet.

      Connecting the Dots: Issues with Preserving Complex Websites

      • Date: July 17, 2012
      • Description: Capturing websites that contain a lot of JavaScript and Flash content pose serious problems for web archivists.

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    19. Snowflake Study, 1890, by Wilson A. Bentley, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      The Smithsonian's Top 6 Archives Myths

      • Date: October 26, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: The top five myths about the archives at the Smithsonian Institution.

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    21. Teens at the Human-Centered Design Workshop

      Connecting Teens and the Castle

      • Date: April 25, 2017
      • Description: A quick look inside the development of a teen-centric program/experience at the Smithsonian Castle.

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      Archiving the Smithsonian’s presence on the Internet

      • Date: September 2, 2010
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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