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  1. Happy Flag Day!

    • Date: June 14, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as

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    Happy Flag Day!

    • Date: June 14, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as

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    Link Love: 6/27/2014

    • Date: June 27, 2014
    • 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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  7. A screenshot of the Smithsonian’s mobile website as it appears on the Internet.

    Connecting the Dots: Issues with Preserving Complex Websites

    • Date: July 17, 2012
    • Description: Capturing websites that contain a lot of JavaScript and Flash content pose serious problems for web archivists.

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  9. 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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    Mapping the Moon

    • Date: May 19, 2009
    • Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of

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    See Here: 2/10/2010

    • Date: February 10, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="The Mall, around 1890, showing the planting and design of the plan by Andrew Jackson Downing, The Mall is covered with trees, with a winding dirt path through them, and a deer standing near it, c. 1890, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 30, Folder 1,

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    See Here: 12/1/2010

    • Date: December 1, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Larry Hagman, from the television show "Dallas," presented Carl Scheele, Curator of National Museum of American History's Division of Community Life with his hat from the television show in the Cannon House Office Building caucus room, February 28, 1984, by Jeffrey Ploskonka, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    See Here: 6/25/2010

    • Date: June 25, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="Office of Exhibits Central staffers (l-r) Ben Snouffer, Rosemary Regan, and Harold Campbell pose for with the mannequins that were modeled after them in the National Museum of American History's (NMAH) "Engines of Change" exhibit, 1987, by Eric Long, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371

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    Come Fly With Me

    • Date: October 21, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. Color portrait of Zoe Martindale standing, wearing a pink shirt and lanyard around her neck with a ID card

    Zoe Martindale, Archives Volunteer Extraordinaire Retires

    • Date: April 5, 2018
    • Creator: Matt Peterson
    • Description: If the Smithsonian Institution had a hall of fame for Volunteers, then Zoe Martindale would certainly be in line for induction. Martindale started volunteering at the Smithsonian Institution Archives in 1997 immediately after she retired. This past February, Martindale retired again, this time from her volunteer position at the Archvies after over twenty years of service.

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  23. In May 1956, Faye Marley, editor of Independent Woman, asked Jane Stafford to contribute an article about women scientists. Record Unit 7091 - Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1973, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Playing Against Type: Women, Science, and Stereotypes

    • Date: April 8, 2014
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Even enlightened publications and workplaces can succumb to the fallback position of choosing stereotyped images of female scientists.

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