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  1. Hot Topix in Archival Research During a Pandemic

    • Date: July 9, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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  3. Letter with letterhead of the United States National Museum in light blue, body of letter written in black ink.

    Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs

    • Date: October 21, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.

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  5. Dried plant speciman.

    Found in the Archives: The Trail of a Naturalist Pirate

    • Date: September 19, 2017
    • Creator: Jessica Lavin
    • Description: Barbeque. Doughboy. Free trade. Pumple-nose. Smugglers. Cortan. Crockadore. Chopsticks. William Dampier, the 17th century explorer turned privateer/pirate, is credited with introducing these words, and more than 1,000 others, into the English vernacular. He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe three times, and created the first detailed record of Australian Flora

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  7. Large opening at the excacvation site yielding an abundance of ammonium chloride, 1872. Record Unit 7000 - James Smithson Collection, 1796-1951, c. 1974, 1981-1983, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2009-0856.

    Smithsonian Backs Journey to the Center of the Earth

    • Date: April 1, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In 1864, Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth sparked people’s imagination, but have you heard that before the novel was published, the Smithsonian attempted a journey of its own.

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    Link Love: 6/17/2011

    • Date: June 17, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: For those of us too young to have understood the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and to those who watched breathlessly as the it came down, this should interest you: an augmented reality app that projects a 3-D rendering of the Berlin Wall at its former site with the help of a smartphone. It was as big as a . . . The US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

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  11. A female conservator looks through a microscope as she conserves a large painting.

    Link Love: 6/30/2017

    • Date: June 30, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: An intimate look at the painting conservation studio at the National Gallery of Art. [via NPR]A newly discovered species of wasp was named in honor of David Bowie. [via Mashable]The Smithsonian is just one of the organizations banning drinking straws due to the environmental harm they cause. [via Washington Post]Can real coral reefs be saved by artificial ones? [via Fusion

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  13. A woman photographs a panda.

    Remembering Jessie Cohen

    • Date: October 29, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: At SPI, we were sad to learn that Jessie Cohen died earlier this week. Jessie was one of the photographic mainstays at the Smithsonian; she started working at the Smithsonian National Zoo in 1979, photographing animals, their living quarters, and behind-the-scenes events for exhibition, education, and marketing purposes. In addition, Jessie also managed the Zoo’s exhibition

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  15. Vertically oriented poster of abstract fabric in blue, orange, pink, and white.

    A Look into NCFA Exhibition Posters

    • Date: October 24, 2017
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has undergone many name changes over the years. One of these – the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) – was in use from 1937 to 1980. During this time, the NCFA underwent several exciting changes. After years of being housed in multiple locations and several failed attempts to build a permanent building, the collection moved to

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  17. Rhododendrons-Golden Gate Park-San Francisco, California.

    Link Love: 4/27/2012

    • Date: April 27, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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  19. Two graphics of one large and one small folder. The color of the top of the folder is small but the lower later reveals a map.

    World of Maps Project - Preventive Conservation Actions

    • Date: February 26, 2019
    • Description: Explore our interns’ new techniques for preservation of maps at NMNH: a map transportation tool, a rehousing plan, and training for volunteers.

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    Link Love: 7/1/2011

    • Date: July 1, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Note: I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks, so look for Link Love to start again on July 22nd! We’ve been blogging about the Civil War and the Smithsonian for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, and others across the Smithsonian have been doing the same. Over at NPR’s Picture show blog, photography curator Shannon Perich shares some incredible animated Civil War-era

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  23. Black and white photograph of a village with various structures on a hilltop.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2021

    • Date: July 8, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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