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    1. Brightly colored pink bird with long bill alongside more plainly colored, smaller bird lifting leg.

      Link Love: 8/25/2017

      • Date: August 25, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: 435 high resolution book plates of gorgeous illustrations from Audubon's The Birds of America are now available for free download! [via Hyperallergic]And after you're done with the plates, check out peacock feathers under a high magnification lens, by artist Waldo Nell. [via Wired]University students are working to save the remaining copies of a black-owned newspaper, The

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    3. 2 geometric silver vessels, one with handles on each side, one with a spout and handle

      Link Love: 3/9/2018

      • Date: March 9, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: 2018 Women's History Month edition!Little-known Hungarian art deco designer, Ilonka Karasz, has a solo show at the Cooper Hewitt [via Antiques and the Arts Weekly]The New York Times is trying to right the gender imbalance in their obituary archive by adding obits for 15 historic women including activist Ida B. Wells, feminist poet Qiu Jin, and mathematician Ada Lovelace...with

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      Smithson’s Bequest to London’s East End

      • Date: October 23, 2014
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: When James Smithson wrote his will on October 23, 1826, he made several bequests to people before adding the contingent clause that created the Smithsonian Institution. One bequest was to a resident of London’s notorious East End.

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    7. The World Is Yours: Glass

      • Date: September 29, 2020
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled Glass.

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    9. I Am My Own Commodity

      • Date: March 24, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: While the economy may be perking up, the recession we’re still climbing out of has made one thing clear; if you need to earn a living, you’ve got to think entrepreneurially. Read enough success stories about former executives who’ve become cupcake moguls and a path becomes clear: take the dreams and skills you have, along with whatever compelling back story you can point to

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    11. Link Love: 2/7/2020

      • Date: February 7, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • 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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    13. Link Love: 1/17/2020

      • Date: January 17, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • 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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    15. Link Love: 2/1/2019

      • Date: February 1, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • 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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    17. 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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    19. “The Proper Thing to Do": James Smithson’s Journey to Washington

      • Date: June 27, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: On the 190th anniversary of the death of Smithsonian founding donor James Smithson, we’re taking a look back at his posthumous journey, led by Alexander Graham Bell, to his final resting place in Washington, D.C.

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    21. Elmer S. Riggs and Mr. Klein with fossil rhinoceros skull in Paleontology Lab, 1899, Field Museum.

      Link Love: 11/27/15

      • Date: November 27, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Who doesn't love giant treasure-troves of historic photographs? Check out some amazing shots from the history of the Field Museum in Chicago. [via Wired]History detective: Researchers in Amsterdam used Google Maps to pinpoint the exact location of the house depicted in Johannes Vermeer's painting, “The Little Street.” [via Hyperallergic]Want to contribute to public history

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    23. Black and white photo of woman wearing cat eye glasses with short hair smiling.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marian H. Pettibone

      • Date: April 12, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Bonus anecdote about Dr. Pettitbone:"While standing in line for a job interview during WWII, she overheard that men standing in the next line were going to get paid much more than those in her line. She then switched lines and became a spot welder, rather than a typist."

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