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  1. Link Love: 11/16/2012

    • Date: November 16, 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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  3. Blue/green circle with golden sunburst with wavy rays and Smithsonian in text underneath

    Link Love: 12/8/2017

    • Date: December 8, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The man who created the Smithsonian's contemporary visual identity system, Ivan Chermayeff, died this week. Here's more on the history of the Smithsonian's identity. [via Smithsonian Magazine]If you're a high school student interested in design, you have until February 12 to enter the Cooper Hewitt's competition for design solutions to make the everyday more accessible! Also

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  5. S. Dillon Ripley Views Quadrangle, 1987

    The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II

    • Date: April 28, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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    Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 18, 2020
    • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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    Miscellaneous Adventures into Standard Forms at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 5, 2017
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: For the next installment of “Miscellaneous Adventures,” we’ve taken a dive into blank standardized forms once used at the Smithsonian, found in Record Unit 65, Smithsonian Institution Chief Clerk, Forms, Circulars, Announcements, 1846-1933, Box 14, Folder Miscellaneous Forms – Assorted. And these forms are certainly assorted! The contents range from memorandum forms to

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    See Here: 11/8/2010

    • Date: November 8, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="Smithsonian's pilot aluminum-can recycling program started early in February 1990. Forty-four containers like the one pictured were placed at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), National Air and Space Museum, and the Museum Support Center, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley,

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  13. Senior scientist, Dr. Cynthia Gilmour, is the Director of the Microbial Ecology Lab at the Smithsonians Environmental Research Center where studies microbes that produce methylmercury in order to reduce the risk of mercury pollution. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Cynthia Gilmour

    • Date: February 25, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Senior scientist, Dr. Cynthia Gilmour, is the Director of the Microbial Ecology Lab at the Smithsonian's Environmental Research Center where studies microbes that produce methylmercury in order to reduce the risk of mercury pollution. #Groundbreaker

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    Link Love: 6/15/2018

    • Date: June 15, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: As the Lichtenstein Foundation closes, half a million documents are coming to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art! [via NY Times]Bitcoin is entering the art market. [via Mutual Art]Hyperspectral scanning reveals Picasso's process during his "blue period." [via The Star]What could possibly connect Abraham Lincoln to vampires? The Smithsonian's National Museum of American

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  17. A face swap of Jean Honore Fragonard's 1769 painting.

    Link Love: 2/17/2017

    • Date: February 17, 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 and American history.

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  19. Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington at National Portrait Gallery

    Sneak Peek 2/18/2019

    • Date: February 18, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: National Portrait Gallery press conference prior to opening, with the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington in view, OPA-1336-07.

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    Link Love: 3/11/2011

    • Date: March 11, 2011
    • 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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  23. Harrison E. Howe, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID 2008-3958.

    Hitting the Right Note: Science or Sensationalism?

    • Date: November 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A look at the line between science and sensationalism in the Science Service.

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