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    Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites

    • Date: August 2, 2011
    • Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.

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  3. Black and white couple in formal dress seated on couch and chairs in room with red walls. JFK smoking with attendants in the background.

    Link Love: 3/2/2018

    • Date: March 2, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Librarians at the White House Historical Association have digitized 25,000 previously uncatalogued slides! [via CNN]In case you missed it, the blog, Missing Scientists' Faces, shared 28 days of African American female scientists during Black History Month. [via @MissingSciFaces]Check out some of the Digital Public Library of America's primary source sets for Women's History

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    Meet Sarah Stierch: The Archives’ Wikipedian in Residence

    • Date: March 28, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives hosts Sarah Stierch as Wikipedian-in-Residence for Spring 2012.

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  7. Faust holds her hands clasped in front of her. She is not smiling at the camera.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Maria A. Faust

    • Date: May 11, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    Women in Science Wednesday: Wikipedia Edition, Part 4!

    • Date: March 30, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Mary Agnes Chase now has a Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers. Mary Agnes Chase now has a Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers.

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  11. Dr. Mary E. Rice was the first Director of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce. As a scientist, she was at the forefront of the new field

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mary E. Rice

    • Date: March 25, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Mary E. Rice was the first Director of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce. As a scientist, she was at the forefront of the new field "evo-devo," evolutionary developmental biology. #Groundbreaker

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  13. Lopez stands in a line of three men and one woman. She and four other people are holding up a folder.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ida Lopez

    • Date: January 12, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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  15. Email Users Directory, 2015, Courtesy of David Bridge.

    The History of Email at the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 21, 2015
    • Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email

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  17. The cover of the new book, Photography Changes Everything

    Just Published! Photography Changes Everything

    • Date: August 8, 2012
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: The Archives announces the publishing of the book, Photography Changes Everything, by Marvin Heiferman, and based on the click! online photo project.

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  19. Castle of Curiosities Postcard

    New History App: "Castle of Curiosities"

    • Date: January 7, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: We are pleased to announce a new mobile experience produced by the Archives, Castle of Curiosities. The Smithsonian's first building, the Castle, opened its doors in 1855. While the Norman architectural style evoked "learned university," it was bordered by fetid canals and rather isolated from the rest of Washington D.C. Check out an app about iconic stories in the history of

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  21. A happy 171st birthday to the Smithsonian!

    Happy 171st, Smithsonian!

    • Date: August 10, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A happy 171st birthday to the Smithsonian!

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  23. Roslyn A. Walker stands at the center of a large group posing for a picture. The label above the title reads:

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Roslyn A. Walker

    • Date: June 3, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Roslyn A. Walker was the Director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art from 1997 to 2002. Under her leadership, the Museum welcomed a new permanent gallery for contemporary art, a development office, and the Friends of African Art support committee. From 1981 until her appointment, Walker had worked at the Museum as a curator, specializing in Nigerian art.

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