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  1. New Orleans Street Parade

    • Date: December 12, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Every year at its annual conference, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) hosts an event called Archival Screening Night (ASN). ASN is a chance for moving image archivists around the world to showcase films and videos from their collections, particularly items that have recently been preserved, restored, or remastered.This film depicts the Onward Brass Band

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  3. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

    Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

    • Date: December 10, 2019
    • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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  5. Secretary Ripley stands beside the model and children climb around on top.

    The Dino Detours of Uncle Beazley

    • Date: June 8, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Before Uncle Beazley, the popular life-size model of a triceratops, made its way to its final destination at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, he stopped at a couple other destinations around the Institution.

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  7. And Action: The Ins and Outs of DVD Video Preservation

    • Date: September 3, 2013
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Archives face many challenges when it comes to preserving digital video on DVDs.

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  9. Diana of the Tides’ vibrant colors are reminiscent of paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Diana’s creator John Elliott knew Maxfield and his father Stephen from visits to the artists colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Archives.

    Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time

    • Date: January 25, 2011
    • Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted

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  11. Greetings From Anywhere

    • Date: May 3, 2012
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: In honor of National Postcard Week May 6–12, 2012, explore postcards from the Archives and the Smithsonian’s collections.

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  13. S. Dillon Ripley Views Quadrangle, 1987

    The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II

    • Date: April 28, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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  15. Making sphagnum moss surgical dressings at one of the branch stations of the American Red Cross, Southsea, England, 1918.

    Fostering Collaboration for the Public Good: Sphagnum Moss and WWI

    • Date: May 23, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: A look at one of the many ways the Smithsonian’s mission to increase and diffuse knowledge brought scientific knowledge to aid the public good.

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  17. Five people standing on a stage, one of which is holding a framed award.

    A Champion for Libraries and Archives: Ching-hsien Wang

    • Date: May 26, 2022
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In their efforts to document the history of computing at the Smithsonian, volunteers are interviewing former staff to preserve their stories and experiences. Ching-hsien Wang was a force that helped libraries and archives make their collections accessible online and here are some early excerpts from our interview with her.

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  19. Kensington stone, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s - , Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 38110a.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: June 10, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  21. Tweet sent by Jacob Harris, 11/12/2014.

    How Uncle Maurice Saved the Smithsonian Elephant

    • Date: January 6, 2015
    • Description: There's no doubt that Washington, D.C. is a great place to raise kids. And one of the primary reasons why is the wide array of Smithsonian museums that are only a subway ride away. It's no wonder that regular visits to the National Mall have been an important part of our family's culture and history since the early 1970's. And part of that history has been the story of "how

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    Heart of Glass

    • Date: October 5, 2017
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph

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