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  1. Anthropologist and Director Emeritus, Diana Parker

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Diana Parker

    • Date: August 10, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Anthropologist and Director Emeritus, Diana Parker (at podium), produced the Smithsonian's Folklife Festival for 25 years and worked in over 40 nations to bring the festival to D.C. #Groundbreaker

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    Save the Date: Archives Month Facebook Live!

    • Date: October 20, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On October 27, 2016,12 p.m. EST, we will host a Facebook Live with our archives conservator, Nora Lockshin, and digitization specialist, Kira Sobers. They will give you a peek at the process of taking a historic diary from conservation, to digitization, to transcription by our volunteers on the Transcription Center! We'll keep which diary a secret until the day of, but it just

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  5. Link Love: 07/24/2020

    • Date: July 24, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Smithsonian Magazine shares reflections on John Lewis’s legacy at the Smithsonian and beyond. [via Smithsonian Magazine] The newly renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library awaits its first patrons! [via Washington Post][edan-image:id=siris_arc_389626,size=450,center]Paleontologist Lee Hall offers a handy (claw-y) guide to digging up dinosaur bones. [via Mateusz

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    Photo Sleuth: When the Evidence Doesn’t Add Up

    • Date: May 14, 2013
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: What happens when you have information about a historic photograph that is contradictory? How do you decide what information is correct? Check out how one historian grapples with these mysteries.

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    Here's Looking at You, Closer . . . Photography and Radiology

    • Date: April 10, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Photo of William F. Mack, Roentgenologist, by Margrethe Mather, 1922, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications"][/caption] Just how closely do radiologists look at what they’re supposed to be analyzing? Would knowing whose CT scans they were studying make

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  11. Disk Diving: A Born Digital Collections Survey at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 13, 2012
    • Description: Details of a physical inventory/survery that is ongoing at the Smithsonian. The project is focused on finding and documenting born digital items at different archival units.

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  13. From the field notebook of Robert H. Gibbs, Jr.

    Scientific Snack Breaks: Picnics in the Field Books

    • Date: July 13, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Go on a picnic through the field book collection, with a look at scientific snack breaks.

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  15. Mr. Ikawa, Japanese astronomer

    Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

    • Date: May 1, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents some images from their collections.

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  17. Obsolete storage media.

    One Lens for Multiple Archives: A Pan-Institutional Survey of Born Digital Holdings

    • Date: May 28, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Summary of pan-Smithsonian survey of born digital collections holdings at archives and museums at the Smithsonian.

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  19. A woman stands in an exhibit space in front of pottery. A forrest or jungle scene is in the background.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Joan Madden

    • Date: February 5, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Joan Madden, Assistant Director for Education, 1987–88, Supervisory Information and Education Specialist, 1980–86, and Education Coordinator, 1974–80, was integral to the development and management of the Discovery Room and Naturalist Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She also managed volunteers for Smithsonian’s Office of Elementary and Secondary

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  21. Trampled Snow Art from Simon Beck.

    Link Love: 12/28/2012

    • Date: December 28, 2012
    • 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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    What He Wrote and Where He Wrote It

    • Date: December 15, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Salman Rushdie's archives, featured in an Emory University publication, by Georgia Popplewell, Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic."][/caption] Back in October I talked—with great interest and at length—with Anne Van Camp, director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, about the various

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