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    What a Groovy Idea! A Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections

    • Date: April 21, 2016
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.

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    Link Love: 8/24/2018

    • Date: August 24, 2018
    • 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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    Buster Keaton’s Donation to the Smithsonian

    • Date: May 4, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: One of the things we do here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) is keep track of original records about donors and the objects they have given to the Smithsonian—and so we have donor and accession records dating back to our earliest years. Because of this, it’s common to receive a reference request beginning something like, “My great-great grandmother donated a

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  7. Link Love: 10/5/2012

    • Date: October 5, 2012
    • 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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  9. Link Love: 12/14/2012

    • Date: December 14, 2012
    • 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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  11. A woman wearing a lab coat studies a paper with a dried plant attached. Test tubes are on the desk in front of her.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Joan W. Nowicke

    • Date: November 13, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Joan W. Nowicke, Curator, Department of Botany, was an internationally recognized palynologist specializing in pollen morphology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1972–99. Nowicke earned special recognition in the 1980s for her work studying “Yellow Rain,” which some governments alleged was a form of chemical biological warfare. #Groundbreaker

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  13. Marion Stirling Pugh holds an iguana. She is wearing field work clothes.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marion Stirling Pugh

    • Date: May 27, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Marion Stirling Pugh began her career with the Smithsonian in 1931 as a secretary for her future husband, Matthew Stirling, Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology. For the next 40 years, the couple studied Olmec culture and the connection to greater Mesoamerica and South America. Pugh served as the president of the Society of Women Geographers from 1960 to 1963 and from 1969 to

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Barbara Faust

    • Date: September 18, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Barbara Faust, Smithsonian Gardens, 1977-present, became director in 2014. It was under Faust’s leadership as associate director that Smithsonian Gardens achieved accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums. #Groundbreaker

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  17. A Weddell seal in the ice hole at Station 61B (August 16, 1961). Note the metal casing which lines the hole and the canvas cover used to close off the area between the floor of the shack and the top of the casing. Photograph by Jack L. Littlepage. Accession 15-281: John H. Dearborn Papers, 1950-2006, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2015-008032.

    Antarctic Explorations: The Diary of John H. Dearborn

    • Date: July 30, 2015
    • Description: With the recent acquisition of the papers of scientist John H. Dearborn, here is an introduction to his life and research at the edge of the world.

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  19. David Burnett’s Speed Graphic Photos of the London 2012 Olympics.

    Link Love: 2/15/2013

    • Date: February 15, 2013
    • 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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  21. Link Love: 12/07/2018

    • Date: December 7, 2018
    • 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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  23. Link Love: 6/14/2013

    • Date: June 14, 2013
    • 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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