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  1. Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Note electric wiring is on the ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall. 

    The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II

    • Date: July 16, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.

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  3. Link Love: 03/19/2021

    • Date: March 19, 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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    The Burning of the Smithsonian

    • Date: January 23, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: One hundred fifty years ago, on January 24, 1865, a massive fire erupted in the west wing of the Smithsonian Castle.

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    Link Love: 9/21/2012

    • Date: September 21, 2012
    • 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. Link Love: 8/07/2020

    • Date: August 7, 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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  11. Mitch in his holiday sweater.

    Ch-ch-ch-changes, 2015 edition!

    • Date: November 5, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It is with sadness that I report that Mitch Toda is stepping down as the blog coordinator. Since 2011, Mitch Toda has been the man behind-the-scenes making sure everything runs smoothly. As a staff archivist, he works daily with the records he takes in from Smithsonian museums and offices such as the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Office of

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    An Intern’s Guide on How to Digitize a Field Book

    • Date: August 14, 2018
    • Description: What is a field book and how do you digitize one? These were the first two questions I asked when I came on board at the Archives as the Summer 2018 Field Book Project Digitization Intern. During the course of my internship, I discovered the answer to both questions and learned a lot about digitization practices and standards at the Smithsonian.According to the Biodiversity

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  15. Link Love: 6/14/2013

    • Date: June 14, 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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    Link Love: 12/6/2013

    • Date: December 6, 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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  19. Link Love: 2/20/2015

    • Date: February 20, 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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    Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

    • Date: November 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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  23. Shooting a passenger pigeon flock; July 3, 1875; published in

    Martha, A Cold and Lonely Last Migration

    • Date: June 26, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the history of Martha the passenger pigeon, the last of her species, who was donated to the National Museum of Natural History 100 years ago.

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