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  1. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2019

    • Date: March 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers this winter.

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  3. Link Love: 3/23/2018

    • Date: March 23, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Play your favorite hand-held game with Internet Archive's Handheld History Collection! [via The Verge]Despite more women than men working in science, only 3 of 10 children draw portraits of women when asked to draw a scientist. [via WAPO]With the death of the last male white rhino, what animals are next? Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories

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    The Field Book Project: Uncovering Hidden Gems at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 21, 2010
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  7. Harpoons Mounted for Exhibit

    Sneak Peek 11/17/2014

    • Date: November 17, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Harpoons mounted for exhibit in the Fisheries area in the East North Range of the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building. Image Number: MAH-2855.

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  9. Checking Items into Patent Office Building, NCFA

    Sneak Peek 6/8/2015

    • Date: June 8, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: William R. Johnston of the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) registrar's office checks items into newly renovated space at the Patent Office Building, OPA-1003-07.

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  11. United States Fish Commission Office Building

    Sneak Peek 7/11/2016

    • Date: July 11, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: United States Fish Commission offices at building designed by Adolf Cluss at 1443 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC, 1880s, by Thomas W. Smillie, MAH-3364.

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  13. Everything I Own

    • Date: February 6, 2020
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Some refer to the Smithsonian as "America's Attic." It probably earned this nickname because throughout its history, the Smithsonian has acquired artifacts, relics, paintings, personal collections, and even hair samples related to the Commander in Chief (yes, the National Museum of American History has a collection of presidential hairs!).With Presidents' Day coming up on

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  15. The Path Taken and the Role of Mentors

    • Date: November 15, 2012
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Oral history interviews sometimes reveal the central role that a mentor can play in the life of a young person, changing the road taken in that person’s life.

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  17. Smithsonian Institution Archives’ “She blinded me with science” Wikipedia Edit-a

    Link Love: 4/6/2012

    • Date: April 6, 2012
    • 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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  19. Specimen card from the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

    The Oval Office meets the Castle: Presidents at the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 8, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The Smithsonian Castle sits just over a mile away from Washington D.C.’s most notable address,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are more than just a short walk away from the White House, however—we are directly tied to it and its occupants. Not only does the Smithsonian collect the history of United States Presidents (including, yes, Lincoln’s top hat and even the hair of a few

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    Finding the Thousand Words Behind the Picture

    • Date: March 31, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: You know the old cliché—“A picture is worth a thousand words.” But is it true in every case? A simple portrait from 60 years ago may give some clues to period hairstyle and dress, but none to where the photo was taken or why the person was noteworthy. Sources now available on the internet, such as the Historic newspaper database, Proquest, and even YouTube—give Smithsonian

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    Gone But Never Forgotten

    • Date: December 17, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="341" caption="Funeral home, Date unknown, by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Scurlock Studio Records, 1905-1994, Call No. 0618.239244."][/caption] The Smithsonian has millions of pictures organized in hundreds of subject based

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