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    1. Girl in fancy hat & long dress carrying book with boy on a tipped cart in the background.

      Link Love: 1/5/2018

      • Date: January 5, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: New Year's Edition!Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer used a spy camera to capture 19th-century Oslo street scenes! [via Colossal]Let us help you achieve some of your archiving New Year's resolutions; action planning for personal archiving, organizing digital photos, organizing email, and preparing for tax season!9 innovators in the fields of technology, health, education and more

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    3. Katie Ahlfeld with Horton Hobbs Jr.’s specimens

      Fatherhood in the field: Horton Hobbs aka “Crawdaddy”

      • Date: June 19, 2016
      • Description: Horton H. Hobbs Jr. and his work in the field with his son, Horton H. Hobbs III.

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      The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair

      • Date: October 3, 2017
      • Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s

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    7. Embracing the Crowd

      • Date: April 15, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: When I started working with museums in 2005, the concept of crowdsourcing was in its infancy. That year, James Surowiecki ‘s book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” was published and there were tiny experiments in crowdsourcing occurring in the cultural heritage sector. There were hesitations and objections about the whole concept within the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum)

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      Smithson’s Bequest to London’s East End

      • Date: October 23, 2014
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: When James Smithson wrote his will on October 23, 1826, he made several bequests to people before adding the contingent clause that created the Smithsonian Institution. One bequest was to a resident of London’s notorious East End.

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    11. 1642. Seining in La Viga, near city of Mexico, 1890-1910, SIA2014-03153.

      New to the Flickr Commons: Mexico, 1890-1910

      • Date: July 1, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: New to the Flickr Commons, images from Mexico, 1890-1910, from the Edward William Nelson and Edward Alphonso Goldman field books.

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    13. Tolkien Map of Middle Earth

      Link Love: 10/30/2015

      • Date: October 30, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Lord of the Rings fans! A newly-discovered map annotated by Tolkien. [via Open Culture]A last call for Archives Month to contribute your stories and memories of gardens and gardening to the Community Gardens digital archive. [via Smithsonian Gardens]Gorgeous fly-throughs of 17th Century London before The Great Fire from a talented group of students at De Montfort University. A

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    15. Lucile Mann, dressed in high socks, boots, and slacks, stands next to her husband in British Guiana during an expedition in 1931.

      Finding Lucile Mann: Tropical Fish and Zoological History

      • Date: March 11, 2021
      • Description: While Lucile Mann’s contributions to zoological history have often been reduced to her work raising infant animals, her work with the National Zoo and resulting publications demonstrate that her legacy should be reexamined.

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    17. Faded color map of the United States as it was in 1839.

      Pursuing Knowledge in Unfamiliar Country

      • Date: November 15, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: In mid-19th century America, some believed that world-class discoveries came exclusively from Europe. But early Smithsonian leaders had a sense of urgency to disseminate an authoritative body of knowledge, pursue further discoveries, and provide a deeper understanding to the public at a time when American society was changing.

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      Couriers of the Flight

      • Date: October 22, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Photograph of airmail planes at Elko, Nevada, by unknown photographer, c. 1920, Smithsonian National Postal Museum."][/caption] Just last week, we uploaded some new photos of early US airmail from the National Postal Museum to the “People and the Post” set on the Flickr Commons. I was immediately drawn in by the portraits

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    21. Photography Changes Everything, Edited by Marvin Heiferman

      A DC Event Celebrates the Publication of PHOTOGRAPHY CHANGES EVERYTHING

      • Date: September 10, 2012
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Marvin Heiferman is doing a book signing of Photography Changes Everything at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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    23. 2011 Smithsonian Teachers Night, Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

      New Archives Resources for Teachers

      • Date: November 3, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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