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    Link Love: 6/11/2010

    • Date: June 11, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  3. NMAI Architectural Plan, April, 2001, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accessio

    Digital Dilemma: Preserving Computer Aided Design (CAD) Files

    • Date: December 1, 2011
    • Description: Smithsonian Institution museums, buildings, electronic records preservation, CAD files, PDF/E

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    Old Photos, New Histories

    • Date: May 20, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Square House, Man, Child, and Dog on Lawn, ca. 1855, by Unknown photographer, Daguerreotype with applied color (1/2 plate), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.234."][/caption] Often we are

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    The Flying Tigers and the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 9, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific

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  9. Web Archiving Update

    • Date: August 6, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A progress report on the Archives' web archiving effort since subscribing to Archive-It.

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  11. A black-and-white picture of Mary Jane Rathbun working at her desk at the Smithsonian Institution.

    Wikipedia & Women in Science: Smithsonian Groundbreakers Edit-a-thon

    • Date: August 24, 2020
    • Description: Help us increase the representation of women in science on Wikipedia!

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    Creating a Digital Smithsonian

    • Date: September 28, 2010
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_8323" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Smithsonian employees attend the 2010 Smithsonian Digitization Fair. Photograph by Michael Barnes."][/caption] For two days in mid-September, Smithsonian Institution employees gathered for a digitization fair to share ideas and hear about some neat projects. Even those who work here are impressed by

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  15. Color photo of grey/brown bird specimen perched on branch.

    Link Love: 3/31/2017

    • Date: March 31, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There are 145 collection items at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and their new Objects of Wonder exhibit looks at how scientists use these collections to further our understanding of the world! (via Buzzfeed)Get cozy while you research! Folger Shakespeare Library lends out handmade shawls to visitors. [via Atlas Obscura]Students from the College of

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  17. Photograph of a blood worm from a Twitter tour of the marine specimen collection

    Link Love: 12/9/2011

    • Date: December 9, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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    The Legacy of I. Michael Heyman

    • Date: December 7, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: A discussion of the legacy of I. Michael Heyman, who served as the eleventh Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 1999.

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  21. Smithsonian Gardens' Cindy Brown in front of the gardenias at the Enid A. Haupt Garden.

    Link Love: 6/16/2017

    • Date: June 16, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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    Evolution of the Memo

    • Date: November 22, 2011
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Memoranda have been with us for decades. While their purpose remains the same, their form and appearance have changed over the years. This short video gives a brief overview of how memoranda found in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives evolved over time.

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