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  1. Photo courtesy of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

    Link Love: 11/6/2015

    • Date: November 6, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will have a prominent home on Chicago's gorgeous lakefront. The museum will house Lucas's private art and memorabilia collections, which includes Star Wars and Indiana Jones ephemera, Norman Rockwell paintings, and movie posters. [via Wired] Who knew? Actors who got their start in government films! A weekly feature of archive & museum

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    The Smithsonian Castle: Tragic Death, a Mystery, and Strange Occurrences

    • Date: March 29, 2016
    • Description: On this day in 1850, a young man was killed in the Castle, the first of four deaths to occur within its walls. William H. Page was working in the building, which was still under construction at the time, when he fell to his death.

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  5. 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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    Conserving Harper’s Three-for-One Field Book

    • Date: August 24, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Though a large part of our collections are flat—that is, they are unbound materials as opposed to bound, three-dimensional objects—a significant group of our holdings do live in bindings and book structures (some of my previous blog contributions have dealt with books, but none with as great a degree of intervention). Treating a field book became more complicated—and more

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    Link Love: 4/3/2015

    • Date: April 3, 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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  11. Black and white photo of a young Margaret Collins sitting at a lab bench with a microscope in front of her.

    Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor

    • Date: March 27, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist and civil rights activist. While her fieldwork has been written about previously, that is clearly just one part of a full and distinguished career.Collins’ interest in science

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  13. Ruth Murray Underhill: Woman of the People

    • Date: March 21, 2013
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The life of Ruth Murray Underhill, an Anthropologist, who worked with Native American tribes throughout the Southwest.

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  15. A woman holds a book on a shelf and smiles directly at the camera.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Catherine "Kitty" Scott

    • Date: July 3, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Catherine “Kitty” Scott, Chief Librarian and Director, National Air and Space Museum Library, 1972–94, began organizing, planning, and maintaining the new library well before the museum had opened. For her efforts, Scott earned the Superior Service Award In 1976. #Groundbreaker

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  17. Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge outside White House, Washington, D.C.; by Harris & Ewing; 1924, glass plate negative; Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress; reproduction number LC-DIG-hec-44616.

    Stumbling Upon . . . Calvin Coolidge

    • Date: December 5, 2013
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The science and method of conducting research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  19. Link Love: 11/20/2020

    • Date: November 20, 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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  21. DArcInfo (Digital Archive Information System) provides details about the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ born-digital collections. img src: 202005_DArcinfo.jpg

    The Work Continues While We Are Away

    • Date: May 21, 2020
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Smithsonian archivists are reviewing challenges with sharing born-digital collections.

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  23. Preserving Her Legacy: Coming Together to Preserve the Legacy of Women Scientists on Wikipedia

    • Date: April 17, 2012
    • Description: Wikipedians and staff partnered together to improve Wikipedia content about women scientists who are found in the Archives.

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