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  1. Curator Emeritus, Bernice Johnson Reagon

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Bernice Johnson Reagon

    • Date: October 12, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator Emeritus, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, founded the Sweet Honey in the Rock music group, was a distinguished professor of history at American University, and was a MacArthur Fellow. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Black and white photo of 3 seated women and 1 man at reception holding plates and drinking Coca Cola.

    Link Love: 2/3/2017

    • Date: February 3, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The history behind the film, Hidden Figures, from Curator Paul Ceruzzi. [via National Air and Space Museum]Umbra Search African American History now has over 500,000 items from more than 1000 libraries, museums and archives. [via OCLC and University of Minnesota Libraries]A Twitter tribute to Holocaust victims who were turned away by the U.S. in 1939. [via Atlantic]Library of

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  5. Blog Post

    If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it...

    • Date: May 10, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: The seven scientists asked to testify for the defense standing in front of the Defense Mansion, 1925, by Watson Davis, Black and white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Image # SIA2008-1146"][/caption] We are nearing the 2nd anniversary of the Smithsonian launching on the

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  7. Challenges of Appraising Records in the Digital Age

    • Date: October 12, 2012
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: With the proliferation of records maintained electronically, appraisal has become more challenging and time-consuming.

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  9. One of the enlargements following treatment and mounting. Photo by Michael Barnes.

    Re-mounting the American Bison

    • Date: February 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the

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    James Smithson, c. 1765–1829

    • Date: June 27, 2012
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: On June 27, 1829 James Smithson passed away in Genoa, Italy. His remains were later to rest in the Smithsonian Institution Building.

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  13. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, National Zoological Park.

    Where Have All the White Tigers Gone?

    • Date: August 13, 2015
    • Description: A brief history of white tigers at the National Zoological Park, and an explanation of why they are no longer collected.

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  15. Infographic with stats about Smithsonian's

    Looking Towards the Future: An Audiovisual Preservation Readiness Assessment

    • Date: July 23, 2019
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives has been spending a lot of time looking at our audiovisual preservation practices. Check out the results from our recent assessment!

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    I Found It In the Archives

    • Date: October 14, 2010
    • Creator: Ginger Yowell
    • Description: As you may know, the Smithsonian is celebrating Archives Month this October. This year, the Society of American Archivists is observing the month with the theme "I Found It in the Archives," which is meant to promote the treasures and gems that researchers find in archival collections, such as genealogical information about their families or materials related to their special

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  19. Dr. Patricia Gossel, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Patricia Gossel

    • Date: November 30, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Patricia Gossel, chairman of the Science, Medicine and Society Division, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, established the history of biology collection at the museum, studied the history of the contraceptive pill, and published more than two dozen scholarly articles before her death. #Groundbreaker

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    See Here: 12/3/2009

    • Date: December 3, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="Rendering of the north front of the Museum of History and Technology (MHT), now the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH), photographed from a colored drawing made by Elliot Glushak in 1961, 1961, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print,

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  23. Middlegate Japanese Gardens, Pass Christian, Mississippi.

    Link Love: 8/26/2011

    • Date: August 26, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: How photos from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Gardens help preserve the memory of gardens (such as the Middlegate Japanese Gardens pictured above) that are now gone. The Museum of the Future has a great roundup of videos and blogs about museums, technology, and media. An update on earthquake damage at the Smithsonian, and hear Smithsonian Secretary (and earthquake

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