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    1. Female peep with plaid cape standing on seashore surrounded by fossils with black cliff and blue sky.

      Link Love: 3/30/2018

      • Date: March 30, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Women's History Month edition, continued!The story of fossil seller and paleontologist Mary Anning (for whom the "She Sells Seashells" rhyme was possibly written), in Peeps. [via The Last Word on Nothing]A look at the WWI Women's Land Army composed of "farmettes" who went outside the home to address the national food shortage. [via LOC Blog]For 25 cents an hour, less than

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    3. 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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      Live Blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair!

      • Date: October 22, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_9678" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="View of the Archives Fair setup, October 22, 2010."][/caption] We are going to be live blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair this morning and profiling all of the activities that will be going on today. Stay tuned throughout the day to see what's going on. [caption id="attachment_9680"

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    7. Wikipedians Hard at Work, Photo courtesy of Effie Kapsalis.

      Inside a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

      • Date: June 8, 2012
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Get an inside-look at a Wikipedia edit-a-thon and learn how you can volunteer for the Smithsonian even if you don't live nearby.

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    9. Ruby slippers, ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

      Link Love: 10/21/2016

      • Date: October 21, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History needs your help to preserve Dorothy's ruby red slippers. [via Washington Post]The gravedigger from Hamlet, Malvolio from Twelfth Night, and more Shakespeare-inspired Halloween costumes! [via Folger Shakespeare Library]IBM's Watson Supercomputer + Encyclopedia of Life= Biodiversity Treasure Trove Unlocked! [via Smithsonian

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    11. Two African American women on Oprah's stage with

      Link Love: 6/8/2018

      • Date: June 8, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: “Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture," a new exhibit highlighting celebrity activist, Oprah Winfrey, opened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via WAPO]Archivists with The Obsidian Collection are digitizing and publishing newspapers that document the Great Migration, Civil Rights, and Jim Crow eras. [via Info

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    13. Computer rendering of concentric pink and silver tubes

      Link Love: 4/21/2017

      • Date: April 21, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Get ready for this summer's big installation at the National Building Museum: Hive. [via WAPO]Want to play old school games like Frogger? The Internet Archive has a Mac game emulator for you! [via Wired]Produce art. [via Colossal]A series of tutorials from the American Alliance of Museums, Becoming a Data Startup (for museums). [via AAM]470,000 images from Europeana are now

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    15. 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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    17. The Renwick Gallery, presently under renovation, is scheduled to reopen this coming November.

      Link Love: 4/24/2015

      • Date: April 24, 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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    19. 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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      Treasuring the Past in the Present

      • Date: August 4, 2010
      • Description: When I was preparing to begin my internship at the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA), I wasn’t quite sure what I would be doing. I knew that I would be working in the Institutional History Division (IHD), and I knew that I would be helping to prepare oral history interviews to be sent off for transcription. During my senior year as an undergraduate student, I had dealt

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    23. Circular color chart

      Link Love: 5/5/2017

      • Date: May 5, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A new understanding of the canine lineage brought to you by DNA and infographics. [via NBC News]A new open source platform was funded through IMLS for making historic newspapers accessible online. [via J. Willard Marriott Library]In the wake of Brexit, a new Migration Museum opened in London. [via artnet]You can travel the world with Smithsonian's National Anthroplogical

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