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  1. Secretary Clough at the Museum Support Center.

    Link Love: 9/2/2011

    • Date: September 2, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Smithsonian Secretary Clough's most recent earthquake update. Whoa. For all you web nerds out there, check out this interactive timeline called, "The evolution of the web," which takes us through the birth and death of many a web browser, coding language, and web specific technology [via Swissmiss]. A Smithsonian Institution Libraries intern recounts her internship experience,

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  3. Large black paper cutouts of children around a may pole.

    Link Love: 5/25/2018

    • Date: May 25, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has a new show on the history of silhouettes, a pre-photography method for capturing an individual's likeness. [via Artsy]"How To File Catalogs" and more Office 101. [via Smithsonian Libraries]What do archives look like before they come to clean boxes and folder arrangement? Yikes. [via Cambridge University Library Special

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    That's a Wrap! - Showcasing the Archives Through Video

    • Date: August 29, 2013
    • Description: When I first applied for an internship at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I admittedly did not know much about it. For my internship, I was asked to make a video that would explain to the general public what the Archives was, as well as what resources it could offer them. On my first day here I was told that the Archives held the records and history of the Smithsonian

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  7. Smithsonian Gardens' Cindy Brown in front of the gardenias at the Enid A. Haupt Garden.

    Link Love: 6/16/2017

    • Date: June 16, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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    See Here: 5/30/2011

    • Date: May 30, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Under a banner for Operation Moonwatch, people are lined up at the entrance to a Satellite Demonstration set up in Biloxi, Mississippi, The Moonwatch Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory was created in 1956 as part of the Satellite Tracking Program and established to track and photograph the artificial

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    An Intern’s Guide on How to Digitize a Field Book

    • Date: August 14, 2018
    • Description: What is a field book and how do you digitize one? These were the first two questions I asked when I came on board at the Archives as the Summer 2018 Field Book Project Digitization Intern. During the course of my internship, I discovered the answer to both questions and learned a lot about digitization practices and standards at the Smithsonian.According to the Biodiversity

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  13. Link Love: 9/4/2020

    • Date: September 4, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Link Love: 11/5/2010

    • Date: November 5, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="346" caption="Cockpit of the Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross, National Air and Space Museum, Image Number: WEB11659-2010, Courtesy of the Air and Space Museum Blog."][/caption] We’re usually dealing with paper, photos, and whiteboards over here at SIA, but the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum gives a nice overview of the hard

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  17. Four women gather around a table on which papers are spread out. Kotkin is the second from the right.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amy Kotkin

    • Date: March 23, 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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  19. Janet Harmon Bragg: Female Aviator

    • Date: March 22, 2011
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about interesting women from our collections in honor of Women’s History Month. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of watching the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Video History Collection interviews while they were digitized. One of my favorites is Black Aviators (RU 9545) because of

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  21. Five people standing on a stage, one of which is holding a framed award.

    A Champion for Libraries and Archives: Ching-hsien Wang

    • Date: May 26, 2022
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In their efforts to document the history of computing at the Smithsonian, volunteers are interviewing former staff to preserve their stories and experiences. Ching-hsien Wang was a force that helped libraries and archives make their collections accessible online and here are some early excerpts from our interview with her.

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  23. Green poses in front of an exhibit case.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Rayna Green

    • Date: August 5, 2020
    • 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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