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      The Smithsonian's 165th Anniversary

      • Date: August 10, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Exactly 165 years ago today, legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution was passed by the US Congress and signed into law by President James K. Polk. From today’s perspective, it seems like a “no-brainer” to accept a generous bequest from a little-known Englishman named James Smithson and create an institution in his name. But from the perspective of that era, the

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      Saving the Smithsonian’s Web

      • Date: August 25, 2011
      • Description: This post is an update to Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig's post “Archiving the Smithsonian’s Presence on the Internet” from September 2, 2010. The Smithsonian Institution has had a presence on the Internet for more than sixteen years. It’s come a long way since then. Documenting the Smithsonian’s various websites falls under the purview of the Smithsonian Institution Archives...but how

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      From a Humble Beginning: The Smithsonian’s first Internet Domain

      • Date: September 17, 2015
      • Description: The origins of the Smithsonian’s internet domain or address.

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    7. Snowflake Study, 1890, by Wilson A. Bentley, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      The Smithsonian's Top 6 Archives Myths

      • Date: October 26, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: The top five myths about the archives at the Smithsonian Institution.

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    9. A man sits in a library.

      Archives Puzzles: Some Library Love

      • Date: December 14, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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      Link Love: 3/26/2010

      • Date: March 26, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="193" caption="Camel cigarette advertisement from Vanity Fair, 1934, by Unknown creator, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, ID: SIL7-78-03."][/caption] Cigarettes and gardenias . . . The Smithsonian Institution Libraries blog checks out old trade literature on women, commerce, and society. Beautiful digital flipbooks at Mediastorm. I

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      Archiving the Smithsonian’s presence on the Internet

      • Date: September 2, 2010
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    15. Color photograph of a large group of Tibetans in traditional clothing, standing outside on the National Mall, under flags.

      Archives, Record Management, and Digital Material

      • Date: July 12, 2018
      • Description: As a student with a background in libraries, one of the most interesting things I learned as an intern at the Smithsonian Institution Archives this summer was how closely related records management is to archival practice. I was unaware that as an institutional archive, the Archives is specifically concerned with preserving records that relate to the Smithsonian’s identity,

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      Felix Nadar

      • Date: April 17, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="333" caption="Portrait of Felix Nadar (1820-1910), Photographer and Aeronautical Scientist, Unidentified Photographer, Unidentified Photographer, Smithsonian Institution Libraries"][/caption] In response to our recent Flickr Commons set highlighting women in science, Erin, our colleague from Smithsonian Libraries, did some deeper

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    19. The Secret Treasure Vault that Might Have Been

      • Date: September 20, 2012
      • Description: During World War II, a plan to build a secret collections vault under a memorial to Oliver Wendell Holmes in Washington, DC.

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      The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair

      • Date: October 3, 2017
      • Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s

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      “A Formal Voice at the Institution”

      • Date: June 18, 2020
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: Revisiting the call to create the Smithsonian Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee.

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