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    A Ghost in the Archives: Robert Kennicott

    • Date: October 27, 2016
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: A spooky coincidence leads to a forgotten Robert Kennicott document in the Smithsonian Archives.

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  3. quatic microscope made by John Cuff of London, around 1750. National Museum of American History, cat. MG*M-09898.

    Link Love: 5/15/2015

    • Date: May 15, 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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    A Quirk, a Chase and the Power of a Crowd

    • Date: March 13, 2014
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.

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  7. Two photographs of a man wearing a fur coat. The hood is on in the left photo.

    Smithsonian Collections, But Make It Fashion: An Archival Mystery Solved

    • Date: June 30, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: For Social Media Day, we’re recapping how a Facebook follower solved an archival mystery by giving a name to our most popular “unidentified male model.”

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  9. And They Called it Puppy Love

    • Date: August 25, 2020
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Pupper, doggy, hound, bowwow, beastie, pooch. No matter what we call dogs, they have always been our best friends. In honor of writing the third National Dog Day post, let’s take a look at the pooches from the Archives' staff (both past and present). Some of these doggos are home helping Archives' staff while we continue working remotely. Can we get an all around "Goooooood

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  11. 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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    Valentine’s Day at the Archives: A Blossoming Romance

    • Date: February 14, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Nothing brings a couple together like scientific research, right? Celebrate Valentine’s Day by exploring a love so deep, new species were named about it.

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  15. Inappropriate Attachments: When Good Intentions Go Bad! (Gallery of Horrors Part II)

    • Date: November 28, 2012
    • Creator: Janelle Batkin-Hall
    • Description: A highlight of inappropriate paper attachments found in a Smithsonian Institution Archives collection.

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  17. The “Et” origins are visible. Black background. White glyph.

    & is for Ampersand

    • Date: September 8, 2020
    • Description: Today we honor the glyph with an incredibly long name that used to shorten an incredibly short word.

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  19. The cover of Science Remaking the World. Note that E.E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson’s name was misspelled as “Edward Slosson.”

    Science Service, Up Close: Books, Readers, and Recommendations

    • Date: December 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Need a new book to read? Look no further than these recommendations from Smithsonian Science Service staff writers during the 1920s and 1930s.

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    Link Love: 1/16/2015

    • Date: January 16, 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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  23. Throwback Thursday, Smithsonian-Style

    • Date: December 20, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Slide back through time by exploring historic Smithsonian spaces in these before-and-after shots

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