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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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  3. Winnie-the-Pooh, Kanga, Piglet, Eeyore, and Tigger, 1925, photo courtesy New York Public Library.

    Link Love: 1/29/2016

    • Date: January 29, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The original, well-loved stuffed animals the characters in Winnie the Pooh books are based upon, from NYPL. [via Open Culture]If you live in Wisconsin, you'd better return those overdue library books. [via Info Docket]Art Nouveau posters, interactive lessons on WWI, silver plate photography; some of the 48,796,394 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across

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  5. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2020

    • Date: October 15, 2020
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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  7. Link Love: 8/30/2013

    • Date: August 30, 2013
    • 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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  9. MayDay 2016 logo

    Emergency Preparedness: Because There May Come a Day…

    • Date: May 3, 2016
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: When disaster strikes your collections, it can be stressful, especially if you’ve neglected that emergency preparedness plan. MayDay is the perfect time each year to revisit preparedness, salvage, and recovery plans, and here are a few keys things to make sure you include to aid in your disaster response.

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  11. Artist working on statue of woman.

    Link Love: 7/21/2017

    • Date: July 21, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The first woman to start a bank, Maggie L. Walker, the daughter of a slave, gets a statue commemorating her in Richmond, Virginia. [via WAPO]A pop-up museum in Amsterdam is helping refugees work with their past. [via NY Times]The new Wikipedia podcast, Wikipedia Weekly #123, discusses WikiCite, Wikidata, and how Zotero is getting added to the mix! [via Wikipedia Weekly] Two

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    Roxie Laybourne: A Bird of Many Feathers

    • Date: March 24, 2016
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief biographical sketch of Roxie Laybourne, an Ornithologist who specialized in feather identification and pioneered the field of forensic ornithology.

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  15. Neither There nor There, 2005, by Siebren Versteeg, computer program output to 2 LCD screens, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 07.35.

    Handling Digital Assets in Time-Based Media Art

    • Date: February 20, 2014
    • Description: Handling Digital Assets in Time-Based Media Art at the Smithsonian Institution

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    Celebrating Women’s History Month with #HerNaturalHistory

    • Date: March 7, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This month, we invite you to follow along as we participate in the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Her Natural History campaign to highlight women natural scientists in our collections. And don’t forget to head to the Smithsonian Transcription Center to help us transcribe notes from women working in the field.

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    Celebrating Women’s History Month with #HerNaturalHistory

    • Date: March 7, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This month, we invite you to follow along as we participate in the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Her Natural History campaign to highlight women natural scientists in our collections. And don’t forget to head to the Smithsonian Transcription Center to help us transcribe notes from women working in the field.

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  21. Public Law 98-87—August 26, 1983, appointing Jeannine Smith Clark to the Smithsonian Board of Regents, by United States Congress, document, United States Government Printing Office.

    Jeannine Smith Clark and the Increase and Diffusion of Cultural Education

    • Date: February 23, 2016
    • Description: This post discusses the contributions of volunteer Jeannine Smith Clark to the Smithsonian.

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  23. Red heart, left image is shown with pixels, right image on blue background is smooth and contemporary.

    Link Love: 5/4/2018

    • Date: May 4, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The story of the first emoji which can be found in the Museum of Modern Art's collection. [via AIGA Eye on Design]U.S. National Archives is celebrating former first Lady and women’s rights advocate, Betty Ford, with new resources and citizen archivist activities where you can learn more about her life! [via NARA]Use this app, Native Land, to learn about the indigenous history

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