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  1. A soot-covered disc has four sections labeled “control,” “dry,” “water,” and “isopropanol” in clockwise order. A soot sponge was applied in each area with the appropriate solvent. There is a stark difference between the cleanliness of the control area and the other three areas.

    Burn This Disc: Treating Fire-Affected Optical Discs, Part II

    • Date: October 7, 2021
    • Description: This is part two of three in a series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. This month, we’re focusing on cleaning tests.

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  3. Animated gif of religious figure blessing snakes passing by at his feet.

    Link Love: 4/14/2017

    • Date: April 14, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Breathing new life into medieval manuscripts at Bodelain Library. [via Adam Koszary/Medium]Over 600 new rights-free videos and other media showing embryos, robots, and bouncing water droplets! [via Wikimedia Open Access Report]The Smithsonian is gathering thought leaders in environmental and species conservation on Earth Day for their 1st Earth Optimism Summit, and our own Pam

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  5. Opening of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1968.

    Design + Archives: Posters

    • Date: October 6, 2016
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A selection of posters from programs and exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts and National Museum of American Art) and Renwick Gallery.

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  7. Isaac speaks at a podium.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Gwyneira Isaac

    • Date: October 21, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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  9. Happy Tin-th Anniversary!

    • Date: October 8, 2019
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: A retrospective photo trip down the Archives’ conservation lab memory lane, featuring folks from past and present.

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  11. A woman, Mary Jane Rathbun, sits at her desk looking at scientific specimens.

    Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century

    • Date: October 24, 2019
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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  13. SERC blog post as appears online, with embedded YouTube video on river

    Fashion in Place of Fish: A Glimpse into Web Preservation

    • Date: August 13, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Why would a fashion video appear on an environmental blog? That’s the question I found myself asking while performing web quality assurance (aka web QA) on the blog for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), which has more to do with fish than it does with fashion. As an intern in the Digital Services Division at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, my work in

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  15. Vertically oriented poster of abstract fabric in blue, orange, pink, and white.

    A Look into NCFA Exhibition Posters

    • Date: October 24, 2017
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has undergone many name changes over the years. One of these – the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) – was in use from 1937 to 1980. During this time, the NCFA underwent several exciting changes. After years of being housed in multiple locations and several failed attempts to build a permanent building, the collection moved to

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  17. StoryCorps interview app announced at TED 2015.

    Link Love: 3/20/2015

    • Date: March 20, 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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  19. Highlighting Diane Arbus: "A box of ten photographs"

    • Date: March 29, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Opening on April 6, 2018, A box of ten photographs highlights the portfolio of Diane Arbus, an American photographer known for her black-and-white images of marginalized individuals, including the mentally ill, circus performers, and transgender people. The exhibition, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) until January 21, 2019, traces the history of Arbus's

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  21. Pink Scrapbook with Blank Cover, by pd_THOR, Creative Commons.

    Cut and Paste, Old Style

    • Date: September 13, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Some years back, and for what seemed like quite a while, people were talking about scrapbooking. As more aspects of everyday life were going digital, it felt like more and more people were paying homage to the paper-based mementoes of their experiences that appeared to be heading for oblivion. Quickly, and to support all the saving, trimming, and gluing that people were

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    What should I do with all this stuff?!?

    • Date: August 31, 2010
    • Creator: Ginger Yowell
    • Description: Even though the world is becoming increasingly more electronic, many of us still have an abundance of things not created or saved in digital format. Whether it's old letters, original architectural drawings from the house your grandfather built, books, photographs, or home movies on Super 8, figuring out how to store these things can be difficult. [caption id="attachment_7890"

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