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    Link Love: 9/29/2017

    • Date: September 29, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Our National Museum of African American History & Culture is getting a forever stamp October 13th! [via WUSA 9]Save the date: the Freer Sackler reopens October 14th and the are celebrating with a festival, IlluminAsia featuring projections on the building. [via DCist] Need your baby animal fix? The National Zoo has three baby critically-endangered dama gazelles, the latest

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Linda Edquist

    • Date: June 12, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Linda Edquist, Conservator and Head of Preservation, National Postal Museum, 1993–2018, managed conservation projects, staff, and exhibitions at the museum. Edquist first arrived at the Smithsonian as a Conservation Technician at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 1990–92. #Groundbreaker

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  5. A screenshot of the new Cooper-Hewitt blog, Cooper-Hewitt Labs.

    Link Love: 1/27/2012

    • Date: January 27, 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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  7. Guard house and cell-block, la Central, Coiba Island, Panama, 1956.

    Link Love: 9/9/2011

    • Date: September 9, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Among the many photos in the Archives' collections are images from the Panamanian island, Coiba, where former Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore, conducted ornithological research. We've featured some of these images on the blog before, and I always wondered about their captions, which mentioned that Coiba was a penal colony.

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  9. Presidential Pencils, Courtesy of the Preservation at the National Archives blog

    Link Love: 7/6/2012

    • Date: July 6, 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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    Understanding the Magic Lantern

    • Date: October 2, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Thornewood Estate in Takoma, Washington, by Asahel Curtis, August 1933, Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens."][/caption] Just the other day we received a comment on one of our photos in the new Flickr Commons set of lantern slides from the Archives of American Gardens. A visitor was interested to know whether or not

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    Link Love: 8/13/2010

    • Date: August 13, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="147" caption="Walt Whitman, 1875, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Chalk on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund, 1980.73."][/caption] Fascinating interview with poet Robert Roper, who dug into the National Archives to examine the moving letters poet Walt Whitman wrote to family

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    Ditched Once, Loved Still

    • Date: January 5, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: A couple of years ago, in the process of curating Now is Then, an exhibition for the Newark Museum, I spent some time researching and thinking about the content, meaning and sequential lives of snapshots. Since their introduction in the late 19th century, inestimable numbers of those small, but powerful pictures have been made, looked at and saved—at least for a while.

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  17. Cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. 2013 (Diana Alvarenga)

    Link Love: 3/29/13

    • Date: March 29, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly blog post with favorite links.

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    Link Love: 8/24/2012

    • Date: August 24, 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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  21. Seven volunteer standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a reading room.

    #MCN50 Conference Next Week

    • Date: November 7, 2017
    • Creator: Charles Zange
    • Description: Behind the archivists, technicians, and specialists of the museum field are an abundance of organizations that network ideas, connect professionals, and present new strategies to broaden the impact of museums (American Alliance of Museums, Society of American Archivists, etc.). Many associations focus on specific aspects of this dynamic field and help to push museum practice

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  23. New Orleans Street Parade

    • Date: December 12, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Every year at its annual conference, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) hosts an event called Archival Screening Night (ASN). ASN is a chance for moving image archivists around the world to showcase films and videos from their collections, particularly items that have recently been preserved, restored, or remastered.This film depicts the Onward Brass Band

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