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    Link Love: 3/19/10

    • Date: March 19, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="216" caption="San Francisco, California, Post Office, Station A, 1895, Unknown photographer, Black and white photographic print, National Postal Museum, Accession number: A.2008-30."][/caption] SepiaTown is a new site geo-mapping historical photos of New York, Moscow, London, and other cities—you can upload your own too. And I just

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  3. Paul E. Garber with Model under Spirit of St. Louis, National Air and Space Museum, neg. no. NASM--9A06513.

    Spirit of St. Louis Was Star Attraction for Smithsonian

    • Date: April 30, 2015
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: April 30 marks the anniversary of when Charles Lindbergh flew his Spirit of St. Louis to the Smithsonian Institution to donate.

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  5. Link Love: 7/23/2021

    • Date: July 23, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a biweekly 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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  7. Photograph shows cat dressed in Viking helmet and shield.

    Link Love: 5/17/2019

    • Date: May 17, 2019
    • 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. Summer Wind to Ban-y-Bryn

    • Date: July 25, 2013
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: This blog piece is about summer weather in Washington, DC, the Alice Pike Barney collections here at SIA, and the Barney’s “summer cottage” in Bar Harbor, ME, “Ban-y-Bryn.”

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    Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’

    • Date: December 23, 2014
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Software tools are helping the Smithsonian find its early websites from the 1990s on the web.

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  13. Link Love: 07/03/2020

    • Date: July 3, 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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    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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  17. One of the enlargements following treatment and mounting. Photo by Michael Barnes.

    Re-mounting the American Bison

    • Date: February 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the

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  19. The China Clipper flies past the unfinished Golden Gate Bridge and heads toward Hawaii, November 22, 1935. National Air and Space Museum Archives.

    Link Love: 7/18/2014

    • Date: July 18, 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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    Decoding Taxonomic Mysteries in Secretary Baird’s Correspondence

    • Date: May 17, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: The Archives was recently gifted an 1860 letter from Spencer F. Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian, to George N. Lawrence, fellow naturalist. The donor requested that, along with a digital version, a transcription be provided, which I undertook alongside a simple treatment. The letter was in overall excellent condition: the thin paper exhibited only a pair of small

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  23. Here At The Smithsonian: Celebrating the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

    • Date: June 22, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The 2021 Smithsonian Folklife Festival begins this weekend. Let’s take a look back at past festivals.

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