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      Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens

      • Date: March 8, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.

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    3. Stapled sheet of paper with a red and blue background and an image of a baseball player, wearing a Pirates jersey, kneeling with a baseball bat in the grass. The title on the page is

      I.D. This! Solid Ink Inkjet Print

      • Date: June 18, 2019
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Material and process identification is the key to a robust preservation strategy!

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      Quick Tips for Preserving Your Family’s Past

      • Date: November 26, 2019
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: As the holiday season approaches, here are a few quick tips on some preservation strategies for your family’s treasures.

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    7. The World Is Yours: The Evolution of Life

      • Date: July 21, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “The Evolution of Life.”

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    9. The top half of a yellowed parchment sheet is shown, covered densely with dark brown ink. A passage is highlighted in yellow, reading “She the said Henrietta Maria Walker by virtue and in pursuance of the Power and Authority reserved and given to her in and by the said recited Indenture of Release and Settlement of the thirteenth of July One thousand seven hundred and sixty nine and of all and every other Power and Powers Authority and Authorities to her belonging in her vested”.

      Enduring Mysteries of the Hungerford Deed

      • Date: December 3, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Much has been learned and uncovered about the Hungerford Deed—but what is still out there to learn? Dig in with us to explore a few of these unanswered questions!

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    11. Hardware used to access old 5.25” floppy disks connected to modern PC. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      5.25” floppies: All Is Not Lost

      • Date: March 22, 2016
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Tools are available to retrieve files off very old floppy disks.

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    13. The World Is Yours: Early Air Mail

      • Date: June 1, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from The World Is Yours episode “Early Air Mail” and its short reign under the United States Postal Service from 1916 to 1926.

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      NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Facility Marks 10 Years

      • Date: December 12, 2013
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: NASM’s Udvar-Hazy facility celebrates its 10th anniversary.

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    17. Grace Nicholson with the Karok man that she called Camp Creek George (at Klamath River), Grace Nicholson Photograph Collection, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Gardens

      Link Love: 4/25/2014

      • Date: April 25, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: With the running of the Boston Marathon this past week, be sure to check out Northeastern University's, "Our Marathon," a crowd-sourced, digital archive of pictures, videos, stories, and social media related to the Boston Marathon bombing. [via Ricc Ferrante, SIA]In the early days of my career as an archivist, I had the privilege of cataloging the papers of Grace Nicholson, a

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    19. New York World's Fair Map

      Walt Disney's Progressland

      • Date: July 21, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.

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      Colors of photography – digital conservation on faded prints

      • Date: December 18, 2018
      • Creator: Charles Zange
      • Description: A few attempts to roll back the color shift on faded prints from 1955

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    23. Physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer walking in to the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf Adolf 1963

      Re-Prized

      • Date: December 9, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Highlight the women scientists in the Archives collections who have broken boundaries to capture the elusive Noble Prize.

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