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  1. woman in classical dress slumped over an office chair staring at laptop

    Link Love: 8/3/2018

    • Date: August 3, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Classical paintings updated for the 21st century. [via Golem 13]The Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff Alaska State Library has finished digitizing the papers of gunslinger Wyatt Earp. [via Info Docket]What role does art play with all the pressing matters in our world? The Smithsonian's Secretary gathers a panel of artists, writers, and critics to weigh-in. [via Second Opinion] What

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  3. A woman watches from scaffolding as a man paints a ceiling.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Grace Lincoln Temple

    • Date: January 5, 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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  5. Freer Gallery of Art, by Richard Southall Grant, 1927. Accession 03-018: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Central Files, 1919-1986, Box 3, Folder: GRA, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Freer Gallery of Art - Moments in History

    • Date: November 9, 2017
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of the reopening on the Freer Gallery of Art, here's a look at some records that illustrate moments from their history.

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  7. Rafinesque’s drawings of tortoises observed along the Ohio River, 1818.

    Link Love: 4/13/2012

    • Date: April 13, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  9. An illustration of the Children’s Room in the Smithsonian Castle. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Smithsonian Libraries.

    Knowledge Begins in Wonder: The Design Behind the Smithsonian Children’s Room

    • Date: March 1, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.

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  11. 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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  13. 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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  15. 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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  17. Stamp with a red-ish brown tone that features the Smithsonian Institution Building. The text reads: “3 cent sign, 1846 Smithsonian Institution 1946.

    Celebrating the Smithsonian Centennial

    • Date: July 20, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and

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  19. 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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  21. Dawrin letter

    I Read Dead People’s Mail: Mysteries of the Darwin Letter

    • Date: June 28, 2016
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: How a 30-year old theft was solved, but one mystery remained.

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  23. Smithsonian 150th Anniversary Logo, 1996. Image no. SIA2019-006021. Accession 97-069: Office of the Secretary, 150th Anniversary Program Records, 1992-1996, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Design in Archives: 150 going on 175

    • Date: August 29, 2019
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: 2022 will mark the Smithsonian's 175th Anniversary. In honor of that, we're taking a look at what some of the design work went into making the Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary celebration happen.

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