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  1. Graphic of kitten popping through ceiling into outer space saying,

    Link Love: 5/26/2017

    • Date: May 26, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Entertaining "Page Not Found' 404's from museums. [via Hyperallergic]Paleontologist Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, used museum collections to determine the reason baleen whales became gigantic. Plus you can help transcribe specimen labels from our Fossil Marine Invertebrates collection! [via NY Times] Harvard archivists found what they believe

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  3. Photoshopped image of artists new to the public domain in graduation caps and gowns.

    Link Love: 1/6/2017

    • Date: January 6, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: New year edition!2017 public domain graduates! [via Public Domain Review]New Year's goals: champing. [via Atlas Obscura]The not-so-ancient art of diagramming sentences. [via NPR]Hallmark used to bring world renowned artists to the masses. [via Artsy]A parasitic scale insect known as cochineal is behind the "true red" color in ancient art. [via The Iris, Getty]Historian, Free

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    Link Love: 7/27/2018

    • Date: July 27, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395259,size=200,center]Check out the nearly 700 newly-digitized images from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 1973. [via Bigger Picture]Speaking of the zoo, cheetah cub overload! [via CBS]The Rocky Mountain National Park published over 210 recordings online including more than 60 bird species, natural soundscapes, and wildlife vocalizations including

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  7. A woman wearing gloves and a man work with a wooden tool on a desk.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Stagnitto Ellis

    • Date: September 16, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Since 2009, Janice Stagnitto Ellis has been the senior paper and book conservator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Between 1992 and 1999, Ellis worked as a senior book conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. In her current role at the Museum, Ellis supervises the day-to-day operations of the Paper Conservation Lab. She is responsible for the

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  9. Barbour, Wortman, and Gidley on paleontological expeditions, 1900-1935.

    Link Love: 9/16/2011

    • Date: September 16, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Wired Science has great coverage of our recent “Field Book Lantern Slides” Flickr Commons set, complete with more information from the Smithsonian’s Thomas Jorstad, who works in the paleontology department at the National Museum of Natural History. Yeek! A Dust Archive (for real!) [via Marguerite Roby, SIA].

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  11. A white woman in a blue shirt and blue jeans wearing rings, necklace, and bracelet sits outside on a stone structure.

    Volunteer Spotlight: Julie Goforth

    • Date: April 7, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Get to know Archives volunteer Julie Goforth.

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    Link Love: 7/22/2011

    • Date: July 22, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: I couldn’t resist this collection of beautiful butterfly and creepy crawly engravings from BibliOdyssey this week. The Smithsonian has created a new Facebook page in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, which we’ll regularly be contributing to. Hop on over and like the page! Apparently, it was not only illegal, but criminal for women to vote! Photos uncovered by

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  15. Image from Aberdeen Bestiary

    Link Love: 11/18/2016

    • Date: November 18, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Bonanza! A gorgeous medieval illuminated manuscript from the University of Aberdeen is now online. [via Hyperallergic]Hello, funny face. A Japanese museum of rocks, with faces! [via Colossal]My childhood favorite wooden 'Little People' just entered the Toy Hall of Fame. [via NPR]Want to save your election day newspaper? Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute weighs in.

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  17. October is American Archives Month

    Celebrate 2014 Archives Month!

    • Date: October 2, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It's time again to celebrate all the wonderful things archives have and do! The Society of American Archivists declares each October American Archives Month and the Smithsonian theme for this year is "Discover and Connect." At the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we handle over 6000 reference requests per year and have an ambitious digitization plan to serve people worldwide

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  19. Photo of fallen leaf art, by Saki Kitazumi

    Link Love: 12/16/2016

    • Date: December 16, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Japanese are taking fall to a new level! [via Bored Panda]The 25 most instagrammed museums includes the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery. [via Hyperallergic] Ireland's National Web Archive in Ireland let the public choose 10 websites to preserve. [via Info Docket]There's a podcast for everyone, including research librarians...check out the episode on Global Web Preservation.

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    See Here: 3/19/2010

    • Date: March 19, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="431" caption="Exhibit of Contemporary Hungarian Artists under auspices of the American Federation of Arts and the American-Hungarian Foundation, at the National Gallery, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in the Museum of Natural History, April 23-May 31, 1930, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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  23. Art Pumpkins by Edie Everette

    Link Love: 10/7/2016

    • Date: October 7, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Art-inspired pumpkins. [via Hyperallergic]Gif's turned art. [via Wired]Our neighbor, the National Gallery of Art, just reopened their beautiful east wing and it has a stunning blue friend. [via Washington Post]Loved the Renwick Gallery's Wonder exhibit? You can now experience it in VR! [via DCist]The powerful symbolism in Nat Turner's bible. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Nashville

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