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      Broadcasting Live from the Sun...

      • Date: November 22, 2016
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.

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      Broadcasting Live from the Sun...

      • Date: November 22, 2016
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.

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      Link Love: 4/5/2019

      • Date: April 5, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    7. -ray of the skull of Science Service astronomy editor James Stokley

      Science Service, Up Close: Covering Eclipses, Near and Far

      • Date: August 15, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations.

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      The Archives’ Video Digitization Equipment Gets an Upgrade

      • Date: April 2, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: The Archives recently upgraded its video digitization equipment to an open source, cost effective solution.

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      Thanks for the specimens, J. Bruce Bredin!

      • Date: October 11, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: This philanthropist’s passion for research and adventure inspired him to join a series of collecting expeditions with the Smithsonian in the 1950s.

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    13. Rube Goldberg and wife Irma interacting with the machine exhibits and attendees riding a bicycle. Photographs being taken of Goldberg sitting near his cartoons speaking to the press. Also, dinner table seating with the Goldbergs, Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and NMHT Director Daniel Boorstin.

      Do It the Hard Way, Like Rube Goldberg

      • Date: November 24, 2020
      • Description: Rube Goldberg, the subject of a 1970 exhibition at the National Museum of American History, produced thousands of drawings and comic strips, as well as, films, photographs, and over-the-top machines. A true celebrity in his time, Goldberg set standards in political cartooning and contributed to the development of thousands of extravagant and entertaining contraptions that have

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      Link Love: 7/16/2010

      • Date: July 16, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: What Not to Wear: The National Portrait Gallery has a dramatic before/after makeover of James Monroe. Check out this great profile of our photograph archivist, Marguerite Roby. The NY Times Opinionator weighs in on in what exactly constitutes an “heirloom,” what this means in a throw-away culture, and the reasons why we save (or try and get rid of) so many dusty old things

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      Link Love: 8/27/2010

      • Date: August 27, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="167" caption="The Mona Lisa, between 1503 and 1505, by Leonardo da Vinci, Oil on poplar, The Louvre Museum."][/caption] Scientists have discovered the secret behind Mona Lisa’s beguiling smile by using x-ray technology [via More Intelligent Life]. And while we're at it, scientists use UV light to reveal how awesomely gaudy the colors of

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      Link Love: 4/23/2010

      • Date: April 23, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="World War II. Liberation of Holland. Dutch people waving at allied planes, The Netherlands, location unknown, 1945, Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo, SFA001015927. "][/caption] During WWII, many spots in Holland were liberated in April of 1945. Check out some of the National Archief’s new set of Flickr Commons photos

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      Link Love: 6/18/2010

      • Date: June 18, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Arch Bridge, Keene NH, by Genuine Curteich, Chicago IL, Photographic postcard, Keene Public Library, Resource Identifier: hsykbrg008."][/caption] Wahoo! New folks on the Flickr Commons: The Reykjavik Museum of Photography and the Keene and Cheshire County (NH) Historical Photos. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA] This year is the

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      What should “reality” look like?

      • Date: April 6, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Untitled, 2007, © 2007 Jos Stam"][/caption] In selecting participants for click! photography changes everything, one of the issues I wanted to explore was, “Just how photographic do the images of ‘reality’ need to be?” Many people assume that the quantity and level of detail captured in a photographic image—what some

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