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  1. Detail of severe ink corrosion on RU 53, vol.32, p. 369, 09/23/2015. Courtesy of Laura Dellapiana

    Further Research in the Conservation and Preservation of Letterpress Copybooks

    • Date: January 26, 2016
    • Description: Postgraduate Fellow Laura Dellapiana presents new research outcomes for stabilization of letterpress copybooks with significant damage.

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    SIA Acc. 07-042, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Office of Exhibits, Special Exhibition Records, 2000-2002

    • Date: 2000 2000-2002
    • Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Office of Exhibits
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 08-153, Radio Meteor Project (Harvard College Observatory), Project Records, 1967-1969

    • Date: 1967 1967-1969
    • Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Radio Meteor Project
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian

    • Date: April 28, 2010
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals

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  9. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

    Spotlight: George Tsaroff

    • Date: September 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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    What are You Watching?

    • Date: August 22, 2013
    • Description: How open source helps us save film and video recordings digitally . . . no matter how bizarre the subject matter.

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  13. #4 Empidideicus mariouti, Effl., 1945, Smithsonian Institution Ar SIA2012-7832.

    Audio, Video, and PDF's, Oh My!

    • Date: February 4, 2013
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives releases a new feature on their website which enables their finding aids to be marked up with available digitized media.

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    SIA Acc. 16-253, Clarke, Roy S, Roy S. Clarke Papers, 1943-2012

    • Date: 1943 1943-2012
    • Creator: Clarke, Roy S.
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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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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  21. Documenting the Family Treasure Chest

    • Date: January 22, 2013
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Some helpful tips on what documenting and keeping track of family heirlooms or collections.

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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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