Description: The Smithsonian's Folklife Festival is celebrating it's 50th year with 50 Years | 50 Objects. [via Hyperallergic]The collections of the 400 year-old Jewish Library, Ets Haim, are now freely available online. [via Info Docket]70,000 paybills, ephemera, and posters from the Brooklyn Academy of Music are now online. [via NY Times]The woman who signed the Declaration of
Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields thousands of questions per year.
Description: Neil Allen worked on audiovisual elements in the Hall of Photography which opened at the National Museum of History and Technology in 1973.
Description: Link Love: a biweekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Balloon show project director Roger Pineau holds the end of a liner as exhibits specialists Ben Snouffer (partially hidden) and Bob Klinger make the final adjustments for the suspension of a 32 & 1/2 - foot World War II Japanese attack balloon in the Arts and
Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="216" caption="San Francisco, California, Post Office, Station A, 1895, Unknown photographer, Black and white photographic print, National Postal Museum, Accession number: A.2008-30."][/caption] SepiaTown is a new site geo-mapping historical photos of New York, Moscow, London, and other cities—you can upload your own too. And I just
Description: You can help the Smithsonian produce a 9 CD Hip Hop & Rap Anthology in a newly launched Kickstarter, and if you kick in $100 or more, you'll get a digital-only track! The material in the anthology was produced with an advisory board comprised of members of the hip-hop community including artists Chuck D, MC Lyte, Questlove and 9th Wonder. [via billboard]The Smithsonian
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