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  1. Close-up of a photograph of a snowflake with six points.

    Crafting the Archives Way!

    • Date: December 8, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I’ve been inspired by the snowflakes Wilson A. Bentley photographed through a microscope in the late 1800's ever since I first saw them in the Archives. Bentley donated 500 of his photographs to the Smithsonian in 1903 (you can read more about them in a post by Archives colleague, Courtney Esposito). The images capture nature at its most creative, mathematical, and elegant.

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    Career as Teacher

    • Date: April 18, 2012
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    “Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971

    • Date: August 21, 2018
    • Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of

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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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    SIA Acc. 96-121, Smithsonian Institution Resident Associates Program African American Studies Center, Records, 1986-1992

    • Date: 1986 1986-1992
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Resident Associates Program. African American Studies Center
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Protecting Wildlife in Our National Parks: William Temple Hornaday and the American Bison

    • Date: August 17, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: August is National Parks Month, a time to celebrate the resources that have been preserved across the country for the public. In August of 1916, the US Congress created the National Park Service which today provides access to unparalleled natural beauty and treasured sites in American history.

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  13. Perros Dingo (Dingo Dogs), 1960s. Illustrations from the Barcelona Zoo Guide Book.

    International Travels of the Australian Canis Dingo: Part I

    • Date: June 13, 2017
    • Description: The cultural history of the Australian dingo and the species’ connection to the National Zoo.

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    SIA Acc. 15-349, National Museum of American History (U.S.) National Philatelic Collection, Curatorial Records, 1965-1987

    • Date: 1965 1965-1987
    • Creator: National Museum of American History. National Philatelic Collection
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Web and Social Media Preservation: Capturing Today’s Websites for Future Archival Research

    • Date: August 12, 2014
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives has captured two years of Smithsonian websites using the web tool Archive-It. See how we predict future research.

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    SIA Acc. 07-014, Lemelson Center, Exhibition Records, 1997-2005

    • Date: 1997 1997-2005
    • Creator: Lemelson Center
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. T90006, National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Department of History of Technology, Correspondence and Memoranda, 1932-1980

    • Date: 1932 1932-1980
    • Creator: National Museum of History and Technology. Department of History of Technology
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  23. Taking a sample of mold.

    Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack

    • Date: July 26, 2016
    • Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.

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