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    Panoramic Panic! A Sticky Situation, Part 1

    • Date: July 29, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: This piece is part one in a series of posts about Smithsonian Institution Archives’ (SIA) paper conservator and interns working on stabilizing a 1921 panoramic photo of air mail pilots and crews that is being moved to the National Air and Space Museum’s (NASM) Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. You can see Part II here. In addition to being the Paper Conservator for the Smithsonian

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    See here: 12/17/2012

    • Date: December 17, 2012
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    My Day With Henry

    • Date: June 6, 2012
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: SIA just launched a new web resources dedicated to Joseph Henry, the first Smithsonian Secretary, his scientific career and his work at the Smithsonian.

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  7. Untitled, by James Fraser Paige, Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1991-088.

    Link Love: 10/7/2011

    • Date: October 7, 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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    See Here: 2/2/2011

    • Date: February 2, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="342" caption="The bones of a young child (possibly 75,000 years old) can be seen in the Mousterian level of the Old Stone Age deposits at the Shanidar Cave in Northern Iraq on June 22, 1953, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 56, Folder 28, and Smithsonian Institution

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    Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

    • Date: February 1, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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  13. This image is found in Record Unit 74 - National Zoological Park, Records, 1887-1966 - Box 287, Smithsonian Institution Archives. The photograph was taken by Harris-Ewing photography services. The Library of Congress contains the Harris-Ewing Collection, but neither the librarians nor I have been able to find the original among the collection’s 50,000 entries.

    Sounding the Old Wolf-Cry

    • Date: November 14, 2013
    • Description: While researching my last blog post on the "mad wolf" who escaped from the National Zoo, I came across an old black-and-white photograph in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that caught my eye. The image is grainy, but appears to show a man and a wolf, separated by a chain-link fence, holding each other's rapt attention while the man operates some sort of recorder. Unable

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    See Here: 3/16/2010

    • Date: March 16, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Dan Quayle, on the eve of becoming United States Vice President and Smithsonian's newest regent, addresses guests at the vice-presidential reception held the Flag Hall of the National Museum of American History, January 19, 1989, by Eric Long, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box 2

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    Link Love: 6/11/2010

    • Date: June 11, 2010
    • 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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    Battle for the Castle

    • Date: November 15, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. Open journal with handwritten notes in black ink.

    Is there a place for paleography in archives?

    • Date: January 23, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: As we digitize the Archives’ collections to make them available online, I am constantly being exposed to handwriting from the past two centuries. As a result, I have a deeper appreciatiation of how many different things influence the way a person’s writing appears on the page, things beyond the quality of their penmanship. Writing on the deck of a ship, on horseback or on

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    Smokin’ Smithsonian

    • Date: January 24, 2012
    • Description: The story of the 1865 fire that destroyed part of the Smithsonian Institution Building and its contents.

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