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  1. 2012 Jazz Appreciation Month Poster.

    JAM: A Month of Musical Celebration

    • Date: April 3, 2012
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: April is Jazz Appreciation Month. In addition to events across the globe, you can find jazz nuggets in various archives.

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    Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers: Smithsonian Volunteers

    • Date: April 19, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12022,size=250,left]Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since its earliest years. The Institution has always been “dependent on the kindness of strangers.” Volunteers make tremendous contributions to Smithsonian operations every day in virtually every corner of the globe. The Smithsonian's paid staff of some 6,000 employees is

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  5. Barbour, Wortman, and Gidley on paleontological expeditions, 1900-1935.

    Link Love: 9/16/2011

    • Date: September 16, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Wired Science has great coverage of our recent “Field Book Lantern Slides” Flickr Commons set, complete with more information from the Smithsonian’s Thomas Jorstad, who works in the paleontology department at the National Museum of Natural History. Yeek! A Dust Archive (for real!) [via Marguerite Roby, SIA].

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  7. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

    Spotlight: George Tsaroff

    • Date: September 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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  9. Link Love: 2/20/2015

    • Date: February 20, 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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    We Don't Know about You, But We’re Feeling (20)22

    • Date: December 30, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Despite another year of telework and limited physical access to our collections, the Smithsonian Institution Archives has continued to serve our researchers and share more of our collections with the public.

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  13. Architectural Plan before rehousing.

    Wait, there are bigger map cases? An Intern's Journey in the Oversized Collections

    • Date: August 30, 2016
    • Description: At the end of Summer 2016, an overview of an intern's work in the archive's oversize collections in the map cases.

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    Live Webcast Today, 10:30 am, "Linked Open Data in Libraries, Museums, & Archives"

    • Date: September 16, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  17. Challenges of Appraising Records in the Digital Age

    • Date: October 12, 2012
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: With the proliferation of records maintained electronically, appraisal has become more challenging and time-consuming.

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  19. Image of yellow pencils at different stages of sharpening on mechanical belt.

    Link Love: 1/19/2018

    • Date: January 19, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: These photos just make you want to write solely in pencil. [story on one of America's last pencil factory via NY Times]It's hard to believe the Flickr Commons, a space in Flickr for archival photo collections, is 10 years old. [via Library of Congress]Scientists, including a fellow from our National Museum of Natural History, Ligiane Moras, have identified two new species of

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  21. Opening of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1968.

    Design + Archives: Posters

    • Date: October 6, 2016
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A selection of posters from programs and exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts and National Museum of American Art) and Renwick Gallery.

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  23. Twitter conversation at the Smithsonian Transcription Center to clarify some questions about transcription.

    Increasing Access: The Smithsonian Transcription Center

    • Date: August 28, 2014
    • Description: How the projects are selected for inclusion in the Smithsonian Transcription Center and how the digital volunteers who contribute their work help make collections accessible.

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