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  1. Black and white image of African American woman holding her baby, looking out the window.

    Link Love: 4/13/2018

    • Date: April 13, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now

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    Going Back to the Smithsonian’s Future

    • Date: February 8, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Today on The Bigger Picture, we are highlighting the anniversary of the 1927 Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian which brought together people from across the country – scientists, academics, politicians, and private citizens – to advise on the future role of the Smithsonian. For this, we bring you a piece from Smithsonian Archives Program Assistant Lisa Fthenakis,

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    3/19/2016: Help Us Write Minority Women into History

    • Date: March 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8825,size=300,left]It is once again time to come together for a day of Wikipedia! Join Smithsonian and U.S. National Archives staff, as well as local Wikipedian volunteers, for a Women's History Month/Museum Day Live! edit-a-thon on Saturday March 19th, 10am-3pm, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sign up for a wikipedia

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    Uta C. Merzbach: Smithsonian's First Curator of Mathematical Instruments

    • Date: March 22, 2018
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Uta C. Merzbach was the Smithsonian's first curator of mathematical instruments. She brought her field to life with unique presentations of mathematical concepts and computer history.

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    Link Love: 7/29/2011

    • Date: July 29, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: An important part of the museum story that we often forget: how the objects got there in the first place. Donors’ stories often reveal the fascinating and complicated path that object take before they come into the Smithsonian’s collections. Here’s a great read on a family who collected celluloid (plastic) souvenirs, jewelry, products, and knick-knacks, that now reside at the

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  11. Digitization Sneak Peek: Summer in Phoenix (Islands)

    • Date: November 20, 2018
    • Creator: Charles Zange
    • Description: Check out a few warm weather photos from the newest digitization efforts of our Field Book Project team.

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    Hey You, Get Off Of My Cloud!

    • Date: June 16, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: January 9, 2020
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    Link Love: 11/3/2017

    • Date: November 3, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The comical infographic of the week that's hitting a nerve with electronic records archivists! [via xkcd]Our National Museum of the American Indian is asking the public to submit design ideas for a memorial honoring American Indian military service. [via Navy Times] The oldest museum of African American culture, the DuSable Museum, was founded by Margaret Taylor-Burroughs in

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    Link Love: 11/02/2018

    • Date: November 2, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Halloween is over, but you can prepare for next year’s festivities with these costume ideas from the Archives of American Art. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The National Zoo’s naked mole-rat colony is still in anarchy! [via DCist]See sixty of this year’s top wildlife photographs submitted to the Windland Smith Rice Awards either online or in person at the National Museum of

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    Conserving Harper’s Three-for-One Field Book

    • Date: August 24, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Though a large part of our collections are flat—that is, they are unbound materials as opposed to bound, three-dimensional objects—a significant group of our holdings do live in bindings and book structures (some of my previous blog contributions have dealt with books, but none with as great a degree of intervention). Treating a field book became more complicated—and more

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    Link Love: 3/31/2017

    • Date: March 31, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There are 145 collection items at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and their new Objects of Wonder exhibit looks at how scientists use these collections to further our understanding of the world! (via Buzzfeed)Get cozy while you research! Folger Shakespeare Library lends out handmade shawls to visitors. [via Atlas Obscura]Students from the College of

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