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    1. Oil painting in warms hues of goldsmith seated weighing gold with couple standing behind

      Link Love: 5/12/2017

      • Date: May 12, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Over 80,000 images from the Met are now on Wikimedia Commons!New to the web—Japanese-American internment camp newspapers from Library of Congress. [via Info Docket]An experiment in applying image recognition software to the Frick Art Reference Library. Magnetic tape obselescence is putting the world's film archives in serious risk. [via IEEE Spectrum]Yikes, Australian

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      Stumped!

      • Date: October 12, 2010
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="219" caption="Unidentified Washington, DC Church, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, RU007355."][/caption] Recently the Smithsonian Institution Archives posted some images from the Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection,

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      Hot Topics in Archival Research: Summer 2017

      • Date: July 6, 2017
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: What does the Smithsonian Institution Archives collect? We say we hold records about the history of the Smithsonian and its people, programs, research, and activities. But this answer doesn’t quite do justice to the breadth and depth of our holdings.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you'll get into

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      Documenting the Smithsonian’s Pandemic Response

      • Date: March 16, 2021
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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      Looking Wayback on the Smithsonian’s Sesquicentennial

      • Date: August 10, 2020
      • Description: The Smithsonian marked its 150th birthday with a huge celebration and special website in 1996.

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    11. Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag

      Link Love: 6/17/2016

      • Date: June 17, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The ever curious story of mailing children by U.S.P.S. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The 2016 American Alliance of Museums MUSE tech award winners were announced, and the Smithsonian Transcription Center won! [via Center for the Future of Museums]A behind-the-scenes look at Google Cultural Institute. [via Wired UK]A super interesting project, Display at Your Own Risk, examining

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    13. Black and white photograph of a village with various structures on a hilltop.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2021

      • Date: July 8, 2021
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    15. Stereoview showing a piece of mummy cartonnage (wrappings) painted with hieroglyphics, from Saqqara, Egypt, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2018

      • Date: September 27, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this summer 2018 by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    17. Photographer Michael Barnes and his copy stand setup.

      Rapid Capture Digitization to bring the Smithsonian's Board of Regents Minutes Online

      • Date: September 8, 2015
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Digitizing the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents minutes to make them available online.

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    19. Worn portrait of man sitting cross-legged in wooden chair next to a table with a lamp and books.

      Link Love: 10/13/2017

      • Date: October 13, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own

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      Some Further Thoughts About Photography And the Smithsonian

      • Date: October 18, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Architect's Model of the Smithsonian Institution Castle, 1846, by Unidentified photographer, Daguerreotype, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Image ID: AFS 140."][/caption] In 2000, as an answer to the question, “does the Smithsonian have

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    23. A woman wearing gloves and a man work with a wooden tool on a desk.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Stagnitto Ellis

      • Date: September 16, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Since 2009, Janice Stagnitto Ellis has been the senior paper and book conservator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Between 1992 and 1999, Ellis worked as a senior book conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. In her current role at the Museum, Ellis supervises the day-to-day operations of the Paper Conservation Lab. She is responsible for the

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