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      First collective Smithsonian staff photo?!?

      • Date: July 1, 2010
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_7327" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="The Smithsonian Institution Building, "The Castle""][/caption] When I'm walking around the National Mall, I often hear people exclaim, "There's the Smithsonian!" as they point to the large red Smithsonian Castle near the Metro exit; something I also would have assumed before my first visit to the Mall.

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    3. 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 Field Book Project: Uncovering Hidden Gems at the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 21, 2010
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Creating a Digital Smithsonian

      • Date: September 28, 2010
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_8323" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Smithsonian employees attend the 2010 Smithsonian Digitization Fair. Photograph by Michael Barnes."][/caption] For two days in mid-September, Smithsonian Institution employees gathered for a digitization fair to share ideas and hear about some neat projects. Even those who work here are impressed by

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      Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites

      • Date: August 2, 2011
      • Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.

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    11. From blog post “Thanks(giving) for the memories—a preservation family project”.

      Link Love: 11/18/2011

      • Date: November 18, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    13. Drawing of reindeer sled pulling Swedes with skiers alongside.

      Link Love: 12/23/2016

      • Date: December 23, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: From the look of this 16th Century book, Swedes sure knew how to deal with winter. [via Smithsonian Libraries]A rediscovered Christmas drinking song! [via Fine Books & Collections]Just in time for the solstice, ancient Japan's 72 seasons in a calendar app! [via Hyperallergic]The historic precursor to Amazon's delivery drones (a curator from our National Postal Museum weighs

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    15. An attendee at “Don’t Rock the Cradle” examines magnetic strapping in the marketplace. Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015.

      Preserve It While You Use It: Collections Care in Action

      • Date: April 28, 2015
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.

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    17. The Mars Rover Spirit took this sublime view of a sunset over the rim of Gusev Crater, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. Taken from Husband Hill, it looks much like a sunset on Earth—a reminder that other worlds can seem eerily familiar. Sunset and twilight images help scientists to determine how high into the atmosphere the Martian dust extends and to look for dust or ice clouds. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Texas A&M/Cornell.

      Link Love: 1/10/2014

      • Date: January 10, 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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    19. The Smithsonian Castle, c. 1857-1858

      Link Love: 6/8/2012

      • Date: June 8, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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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    21. Stamp with a red-ish brown tone that features the Smithsonian Institution Building. The text reads: “3 cent sign, 1846 Smithsonian Institution 1946.

      Celebrating the Smithsonian Centennial

      • Date: July 20, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and

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    23. An example of a Ryan Gosling Hey Girl museum post.

      Link Love: 12/30/2012

      • Date: December 30, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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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