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    1. What the iconic Windows XP “Bliss” wallpaper photo looks like before and after Commodore 64 conversion.

      Link Love: 5/8/2015

      • Date: May 8, 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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    3. Two ruby slippers with an FBI badge and single red sequin in between the slippers.

      Link Love: 9/7/2018

      • Date: September 7, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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    5. 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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    7. Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

      • Date: March 31, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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    9. To Post-it or Not to Post-it

      • Date: September 5, 2013
      • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
      • Description: Although fun and easy to use, post-it notes are often harmful to archival records, as seen with the conservation of Cordelia Rose’s recently acquired scroll.

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    11. Black and white portrait

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dianne H. Pilgrim

      • Date: June 14, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    13. Framed photograph of a woman holding an unidentified object. It is a cylinder with a ball at the end of it.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Cara McCarty

      • Date: November 20, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Cara McCarty, Curatorial Director, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2007–present, manages the museum’s collection and exhibition planning. McCarty was also a leader in overseeing the museum’s major renovations, completed in 2014. #Groundbreaker

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    15. Invitation to the opening of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on October 2, 1974. Information File, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Design + Archives

      • Date: November 26, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: An introduction to a new monthly series on examples of design found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.

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    17. Link Love: 12/9/2016

      • Date: December 9, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: An Archivists' call-to-action, in song, from the Society of American Archivists, and Garrison Keeler. A new exhibit from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum examines clothing waste. [via Hyperallergic]The first curator of Media and Performance Art, Mark Beasely, was appointed at the Hirshhorn. [via Artnet]A new book is out about the team of Harvard female "computers"

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    19. Link Love: 1/1/2021

      • Date: January 1, 2021
      • 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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    21. Link Love: 8/14/2020

      • Date: August 14, 2020
      • 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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    23. A daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams, taken in March 1843.

      Link Love: 8/18/2017

      • Date: August 18, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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