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    1. You Spin Me Round - Frisbee Festivals on the Mall

      • Date: May 23, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Starting in 1977, the National Air and Space Museum, with assistance from the International Frisbee Association, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, volunteer instructors from several states, and the Washington Area Frisbee Club, held their first Frisbee Festival on the National Mall.

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      The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 2 of 2: Who and How, and Why It Matters

      • Date: September 10, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The historical legacy of amatuer photographer Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) is far greater than was acknowledged at the time, because of both who he photographed and how he set up the images.

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      Roxie Laybourne: A Bird of Many Feathers

      • Date: March 24, 2016
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: A brief biographical sketch of Roxie Laybourne, an Ornithologist who specialized in feather identification and pioneered the field of forensic ornithology.

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    7. Performance appraisal form, 1933. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2015-000192.

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      • Date: October 16, 2014
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: A look back at historic performance appraisal forms.

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    9. A soot-covered disc has four sections labeled “control,” “dry,” “water,” and “isopropanol” in clockwise order. A soot sponge was applied in each area with the appropriate solvent. There is a stark difference between the cleanliness of the control area and the other three areas.

      Burn This Disc: Treating Fire-Affected Optical Discs, Part II

      • Date: October 7, 2021
      • Description: This is part two of three in a series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. This month, we’re focusing on cleaning tests.

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    11. Facing our Fears

      • Date: October 30, 2018
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: An unusually serious Halloween post in which we dress up to stage a mock recovery from a museum fire.

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      The Hirshhorn Adventures: A Museum for the Mall

      • Date: December 11, 2018
      • Description: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has been located on the National Mall since 1974, but before that, Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn spent years considering which city or country the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden would call home.

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      Color our Collections

      • Date: October 22, 2020
      • Description: Grab your colored pencils. It’s National Color Day!

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    17. The Archives Staff Kept Austin Weird at SAA 2019

      • Date: August 20, 2019
      • Description: This summer, members of the Archives staff packed their bags and headed to the 2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and Society of American Archivists (SAA). When they returned, they refected om the most useful sessions and what topics they're looking for in the future.

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    19. No. 40. Crew member preparing plant specimens for Smithsonian, off the east coast of Greenland, 1936. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007231, Image no. SIA2012-0660

      Another Milestone Met: Reminiscing about the Field Book Project and Looking Forward

      • Date: February 21, 2019
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.

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      How Much is in That Terabyte?

      • Date: December 6, 2018
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: 2018 was a busy year for born-digital collections at the Archives

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      Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art

      • Date: December 6, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.

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