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  1. Three Cheers for Smithsonian Volunteers

    • Date: April 12, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Okay, okay—sorry for the lame title, but I can’t resist a rhyme. In all seriousness, though, so much of the hard work at the Smithsonian is done by volunteers, and we would be remiss to not recognize them during National Volunteer Week.

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    The World Is Yours: Fashion Parade of Presidents’ Wives

    • Date: March 4, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Fashion Parade of Presidents’ Wives.”

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    Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens

    • Date: March 8, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.

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    An ‘Intern’duction to Storage of Oversized Archival Collections

    • Date: January 12, 2016
    • Description: I was recently given the opportunity to work as a Collections Care Intern at the Smithsonian Institution Archives for the months of November and December 2015, under the supervision and partnership of the Archives’ Collections Care Team. During my short time here, I worked on two parallel projects focused on surveying, preserving, and treating oversized archival collections:

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    Link Love: 1/8/2010

    • Date: January 8, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  11. Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Note electric wiring is on the ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall. 

    The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II

    • Date: July 16, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.

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  13. Kira Sobers works on an audio reel-to-reel tape recorder. It has two tape wheels and many buttons.

    What Our Experts Want You to Know About Digitization

    • Date: May 19, 2020
    • Description: Our digitization experts answer questions about the complicated and time-consuming process of digitizing our collections.

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  15. The Smithsonian Castle, c. 1857-1858

    Link Love: 6/8/2012

    • Date: June 8, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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  17. Robert Ridgway sits writing at his desk in his office located in the United States National Museum, Record Unit 7440 - American Ornithologists' Union, Records, 1871-1994, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Neg. no. SIA2008-2291.

    International Migratory Bird Day

    • Date: May 5, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: To celebrate International Migratory Bird Day on May 9th, we will be releasing recently digitized specimen drawings by ornithologist Robert Ridgway (1850-1929.) Ridgway's career with the Smithsonian began in 1864 when he wrote asking for help identifying a bird. As they say, the rest is history. Starting in 1869, Ridgway became curator at the Smithsonian's United States

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  19. Happy Birthday, Smithsonian Magazine!

    • Date: April 21, 2015
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A look back at the first issue of Smithsonian Magazine for its 45th anniversary.

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  21. Book opened to show two pages. The lefthand page is blank and the righthand page contains the beginning of an article titled “Address of Norman J. Colman before the Missouri Editors and Publishers’ Association.”

    Not Your Average Scrapbook

    • Date: November 3, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: A scrapbook isn’t always a collection of photographs and memorabilia. For C.V. Riley, it was a place to keep articles.

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  23. Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville (1867-1937).

    Contagious Contributions: The Rewards of Asking for Help

    • Date: February 26, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Update on the continuing and growing contributions of volunteers at the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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