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  1. Creating a barrier between the non-archival tube and the collections material.

    Pennywise Preservation: Oversized Prints and Drawings

    • Date: December 13, 2016
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Providing suitable housing for collections can sometimes be cost-prohibitive. When the Archives received a large collection of oversized drawings, a cost-savings approach had to be employed while still achieving an appropriate housing strategy for long-term preservation.

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  3. Link Love: 1/31/2014

    • Date: January 31, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • 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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    Robert Ridgway – From Protégé to a Leading Ornithologist

    • Date: February 27, 2020
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: As a teenager, Robert Ridgway was tapped by the Smithsonian’s Assistant Secretary to be an expedition zoologist. In 1881, when the US National Museum opened its doors, he was the curator of Birds. Download and reuse some of bird illustrations today through Smithsonian Open Access.

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  7. Link Love: 2/28/2020

    • Date: February 28, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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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  9. Alison Reppert Gerber, Preservation Coordinator, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015, by Mitch Toda.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: June 30, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: An introduction to our new Preservation Coordinator, Alison Reppert Gerber.

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  11. A Glimpse into the Past: A look at the contents of an early 20th century diary

    • Date: August 13, 2013
    • Description: In conservation it can be easy to overlook the content of an item and just get on with the treatment. Here is a case where overlooking the content was simply not possible.

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    Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 18, 2020
    • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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  15. Four green cots are set up on the floor of the National Air and Space Museum. A large spaceship is in the background. Sleeping bags and backpacks rest on the cots.

    An Operation of Its Own: Brigitte Blachere and Programming within the Smithsonian Associates

    • Date: September 8, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: A collection of interviews from 2013 records the history of the Smithsonian Associates. One of recordings included Brigitte B. Blachere, the program manager of the organization. She detailed the youth and family programs she has developed for 23 years.

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  17. A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat takes a photo of a museum object in a laboratory.

    Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

    • Date: July 6, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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  19. This clay facial reconstruction of Kennewick Man was carefully sculpted around the morphological features of his skull, and lends a deeper understanding of what he may have looked like nearly 9,000 years ago. By Brittney Tatchell, August 25, 2014, Smithsonian Institution.

    Link Love: 8/29/2014

    • Date: August 29, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • 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. Four African American boys with three dogs and a bicycle in an alley cluttered with trash, by Robert S. Scurlock, color photoprint. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, image no. AC0618-002-0000003.

    Link Love: 8/7/2015

    • Date: August 7, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • 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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    Tichkematse—A Great Favorite at the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 25, 2021
    • Description: A forerunner of today’s efforts to decolonize and Indigenize American museums, Tichkematse was one of the first Native American employees at the Smithsonian Institution. His work with natural history and anthropological collections continue to inspire Native and non-Native museum professionals nearly 150 years later.

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