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    "To Have and to Hold”: Parsing the Legal Framework of the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: May 12, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Now that we know more about the Hungerford Deed, dive in with us as we seek to understand its legal framework and context.

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  3. The broken joint and damaged headcap needed significant attention before the volume could be scanned safely. Courtesy of William Bennett.

    Minute by Minute: Preparing Board of Regents Records for Digitization

    • Date: September 10, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Take a look behind the scenes at the Archives as conservation staff prepares one of our important collections for digitization.

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    Season's Greetings from the Archives

    • Date: December 22, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Celebrating the holidays with an assortment of greeting cards from U.S. National Museum ichthyologist Isaac Ginsburg’s papers.

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  7. A group of men and women surround a table in a glass-walled room, listening to a man in a blue shirt describe a parchment document visible on the table in front of him.

    A Tale of Three Contracts

    • Date: September 5, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: An exciting new accession sheds light on James Smithson’s family history and fortune.

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  9. The damaged nudibranch field book

    Coming Soon to the Transcription Center: Department of Invertebrate Zoology

    • Date: November 15, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See what’s in store for the Transcription Center from the invertebrate zoology collections!

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  11. A printed map, marked with red and brown inks, is unfolded showing the entirety of its information. A photographic target is at left.

    Navigating Treatment of the Dawson Map

    • Date: May 7, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Our treasures can pose significant—and often unexpected—challenges, like when a map has been attached to a hotel linen. See how our staff tackled a complex intervention in progress!

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  13. Mending one of the specimen illustrations atop a light box.

    An Undersea Invertebrates Update: Treatment Progress on Bartsch’s Nudibranchs Field Book

    • Date: May 18, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Treatment continues on Paul Bartsch’s field book documenting nudibranchs—see our progress!

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    A Hungerford Property History of Women’s Rights

    • Date: March 25, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: We’ve learned so much about the specific women of James Smithson’s family though the Hungerford Deed—but what can it tell us about women’s rights in the eighteenth century?

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  17. The top half of a yellowed parchment sheet is shown, covered densely with dark brown ink. A passage is highlighted in yellow, reading “She the said Henrietta Maria Walker by virtue and in pursuance of the Power and Authority reserved and given to her in and by the said recited Indenture of Release and Settlement of the thirteenth of July One thousand seven hundred and sixty nine and of all and every other Power and Powers Authority and Authorities to her belonging in her vested”.

    Enduring Mysteries of the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: December 3, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Much has been learned and uncovered about the Hungerford Deed—but what is still out there to learn? Dig in with us to explore a few of these unanswered questions!

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  19. The top portion of a parchment membrane with a wavy top edge is shown; dark, heavy, Gothic-style lettering appears at the top along with flourishes, and is also scattered throughout the text, as are words in forward-slanting italic writing.

    Celebrating Handwriting with the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: January 21, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Handwriting is a personal passion of mine, despite it having become something of a lost art. Today, when most people think of handwriting at all, it is as a greatly individual method of writing recognizable characters, regardless of the writing system, but in the past, when you could make a living as a scribe, there were highly standardized styles.

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  21. Unrolled group of graphic recordings showing just how large and unwieldy these records are. Photo by William Bennett, 2015. Accession 09-296 - Office of the Secretary, Strategic Planning Records, 2009, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease: A Custom Storage Solution for an Unusual Collection

    • Date: February 5, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Unusual sized and shaped items can be a challenge in archives—here’s how our conservation staff dealt with a particularly tricky accession.

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  23. A close-up view of a parchment sheet, covered closely with black ink writing. A passage is highlighted in yellow, “Estate at Studley and Calne and other Places in the County of Wilts[hire].”

    Tracing Inheritance in the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: September 24, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: The Hungerford Deed split an inherited estate between two sisters—but what do we know about those properties? We’ve dug deep into one of them here.

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