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  1. Sharon Jones' Birthday Party

    Link Love: 5/13/2016

    • Date: May 13, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Calling all history sleuths! The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History needs your help identifying . [via Smithsonian Magazine]Smithsonian Folkways has acquired the voluminous Arhoolie Records collection of blues, gospel, Cajun and Mexican folk music. [via NY Times]Did you miss the launch of the new rights statement framework for cultural heritage organizations

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    17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)

    • Date: August 10, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!

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    The Woman with the Gramophone

    • Date: April 2, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Save Our Sounds Postcard, Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] For the last few years, I’ve had this postcard up in my office promoting Save Our Sounds, a program by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Library of Congress dedicated to restoring,

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    It’s a (sea) Bird!

    • Date: August 16, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Enjoy a collection of images documenting pelagic birds from the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Betty Meggers

    • Date: January 11, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Betty Meggers, Director of the Latin American Archaeology Program, National Museum of Natural History, and her husband, Clifford Evans, were the first archaeologists to study ancient Amazonians and they revolutionized thinking about early human activity in the Amazon rainforest. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kim Sajet

    • Date: January 24, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery's director, Kim Sajet, has established more inclusive collecting and hiring practices at the museum including enabling the first long-running series on Latina activist, Dolores Huerta. #Groundbreaker

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  13. Botanist and Curator, Dr. Vicki Funk of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History's Department of Botany, directs the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program. She specializes in the Compositae (Sunflower family), focusing on the evolution and biogeography of plants of South American highlands. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Vicki Funk

    • Date: July 22, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Senior Scientist Vicki Funk, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Department of Botany, directs the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program and specializes in the evolution and biogeography of plants of the South American highlands. #Groundbreaker

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    "Roughing" It

    • Date: June 9, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Having grown up in a major U.S. city with a family that considered spending a week in a grass hut camping, I committed to giving my daughter more exposure to the great outdoors with all the wonderful state and national parks near Washington D.C. However, lack of sleep and rehydrated food was not what I had in mind.Throughout history, Smithsonian researchers have conducted

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  17. Composite of 700 images from the Freer Ramayana.

    Link Love: 12/19/2014

    • Date: December 19, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On New Years Day 2015, the 44,000 works of art in the Smithsonian’s Freer | Sackler collection will be available online. [via WAMU] Dumpster diving! The National Museum of American History added a copy of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 game found in a landfill to their collection. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]The grand re-opening of

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    3/19/2016: Help Us Write Minority Women into History

    • Date: March 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8825,size=300,left]It is once again time to come together for a day of Wikipedia! Join Smithsonian and U.S. National Archives staff, as well as local Wikipedian volunteers, for a Women's History Month/Museum Day Live! edit-a-thon on Saturday March 19th, 10am-3pm, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sign up for a wikipedia

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  21. urban street scape with barber shop, candy shop, and African Americans walking the street

    Link Love: 5/11/2018

    • Date: May 11, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum looks at the history of rapid change in Washington D.C., the ensuing inequality, and neighborhood activism with A Right to the City. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Check out the newly released 2018 National Design Award winners from the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt. [via Architect Magazine]There may be a developing love story at our

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jacquelyn Days Serwer

    • Date: November 15, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Chief curator, Dr. Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), assembled the museum's art collection documenting 200 years of black visual expression. #Groundbreaker

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