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    Link Love: 8/19/2011

    • Date: August 19, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: It’s an old fashioned card catalogue full of jokes! The National Museum of American History gives insight into Phyllis Diller’s “gag file”—50,000 annotated jokes featured in a new exhibition at the museum. How are institutions preserving born digital art? Here’s an article about Rhizome’s ArtBase—an archive of digital artworks [via the National Digital Information

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  3. Halides on display in a well-lit exhibit case.

    Archives Puzzles: Shine Bright Like a Halide

    • Date: January 11, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    Link Love: 11/12/2010

    • Date: November 12, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Steven Cohn, the Smithsonian’s Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management and the museum’s representative Industrial Hygienist, tests Owney's fur for arsenic, lead and mercury. Courtesy of the National Postal Museum "Pushing the Envelope" blog."][/caption] More interesting preservation challenges. We’ve covered

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    Link Love: 12/2/2016

    • Date: December 2, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Perfect time of year to take a tour of D.C.'s secret gardens, including the Smithsonian's! [via Shakespeare Theatre Company]The State Library of Virginia asked residents for Civil War mementos, and they delivered (and they are now online). [via Centre Daily Times]Hear about the massive undertaking to save wartorn Sudan's archives. [via National Geographic]Cambridge Dictionary

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  9. Kevin Spacey as President Francis J. Underwood (detail) by Jonathan Yeo / Oil on canvas, 2015 / Collection of the artist

    Link Love: 2/26/16

    • Date: February 26, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It happened. "President" Francis J. Underwood's portrait hangs at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and NPG's Director, Kim Sajet, appears on an upcoming episode of House of Cards. [via Variety]DC Public Library's Memory Lab has your digital back and can help you digitize your 3.5" floppies and MiniDV's. [via dcist]Everyone's up in arms over the Metropolitan Museum

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  11. Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on May 17, 1957, by George Tames, courtesy NY Times.

    Link Love: 2/5/16

    • Date: February 5, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The New York Times just released previously unpublished photos documenting black history. [via New York Times]The wait is nearly over: Opening day of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is September 24th, 2016. [via Washington Post]Just released: A new guide to help artists preserve their studio archives. [via Artists' Studio Archives]A

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  13. Fully dressed model in black robe with pink collar and sleeves and elaborate headdress with bright feathers.

    Link Love: 7/7/2017

    • Date: July 7, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's Folklife Festival is celebrating it's 50th year with 50 Years | 50 Objects. [via Hyperallergic]The collections of the 400 year-old Jewish Library, Ets Haim, are now freely available online. [via Info Docket]70,000 paybills, ephemera, and posters from the Brooklyn Academy of Music are now online. [via NY Times]The woman who signed the Declaration of

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  15. The payroll to slaveowners

    Link Love: 7/29/2016

    • Date: July 29, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The research behind Michelle Obama's statement that the White House was built partly by slaves. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is hiring a beer historian, but it does require you to do more than just drink beer. [via Washington City Paper][WARNING NSFW] 20 bawdy art history tweets for modern times! [via deMilked]19th century

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  17. Wiki Loves Monuments

    Link Love: 9/16/2016

    • Date: September 16, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Lend a hand to "Wiki Loves Monuments" to improve Wikipedia articles about U.S. historic sites. The Banned Book Handbook, 2016 edition. [via Info Docket]Didn't get tickets to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum opening? You can still attend the surrounding festival featuring The Roots and Public Enemy! [via NY Times]The first

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    See Here: 12/30/2010

    • Date: December 30, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Behind the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), the "Castle," is the site of the Smithsonian's museum complex on Independence Avenue, 1987, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 410 Box 3 Folder Quad with Street, Negative Number: 87-7964-1."][/caption]

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  21. Majewski crouches down near two children, who are not looking toward the camera.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Majewski

    • Date: May 19, 2021
    • 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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  23. Photograph of Manning holding up an award in the shape of a round dish.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Catherine Lemmon Manning

    • Date: June 2, 2021
    • 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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