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  1. The Prophet, newsletter of the Smithsonian African American Association, Volume 1, Issue 1, Accession 99-016, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Image no. SIA2016-008658.

    Smithsonian African American Association

    • Date: February 9, 2016
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: The Smithsonian African American Association was formed in 1989 and was an assembly of the Institution's employees who have organized to project a united voice, to have an impact upon pan-institutional policies that affect African Americans, and to convey these concerns to the Smithsonian Administration.

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    Link Love: 6/10/2011

    • Date: June 10, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="179" caption="Portrait photograph of Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929), entomologist at the United States National Museum at the Smithsonian from 1897 until his death in 1929, c. 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Negative Number: SIA2009-0002."][/caption] It turns out that a series of mysterious tunnels discovered in

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  5. Remembering Autochrome

    • Date: November 20, 2012
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: The Autochrome color photography process is highlighted and explained.

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  7. First Presentation of the American Welding Society’s Lincoln Gold Medal

    Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees

    • Date: August 4, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.

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    Don't Miss the Common Ground This Weekend!

    • Date: October 2, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: If you happen to walk by a museum or a library one evening this weekend, and there's a light on inside, or perhaps a flicker in the window, don't pass it by. There's a good chance that you stumbled on The Common Ground: a community curated meetup. The Common Ground gatherings are being hosted by museums and libraries around the world to celebrate The Commons on Flickr and the

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    Link Love: 6/10/2011

    • Date: June 10, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: It turns out that a series of mysterious tunnels discovered in the early 1900s underneath Washington, DC’s Dupont Circle, were the makings of former Smithsonian employee and entomologist, Harrison G. Dyar (whose papers happen to be in our collections). Read more about this fascinating story and character at "the location" blog [via The e-Torch]. The Internet Archive explains

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    On the Conservation of Champions

    • Date: July 19, 2012
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: A look at the preservation of a box of Wheaties cereal featuring Native American Olympian, Jim Thorpe, how ordinary objects become museum icons, and the problem of food in museum collections.

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  15. Open journal with handwritten notes in black ink.

    Is there a place for paleography in archives?

    • Date: January 23, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: As we digitize the Archives’ collections to make them available online, I am constantly being exposed to handwriting from the past two centuries. As a result, I have a deeper appreciatiation of how many different things influence the way a person’s writing appears on the page, things beyond the quality of their penmanship. Writing on the deck of a ship, on horseback or on

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  17. William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

    Election Collection: William Howard Taft

    • Date: October 11, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In celebration of our friends at the National Archives’ #ElectionCollection campaign, we are sharing some unique photos of U.S. Presidents in our collection.

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  19. Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: December 8, 2015
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Link Love: 4/22/2011

    • Date: April 22, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="215" caption="Belle Grove, rear, White Castle vic., Iberville Parish, Louisiana, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1938, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print."][/caption] Oooo—a pretty resource I’ve not come across before. The Carnegie Survey of the Architecture

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  23. A sketch of an exhibit floor plan that notes measurements of objects and panels.

    Adventures in Time and Space: Exhibition Records

    • Date: October 25, 2018
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Transferring, processing, and describing exhibition drawings pose significant challenges to the archival workflow.

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