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  1. A woman wearing gloves and a man work with a wooden tool on a desk.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Stagnitto Ellis

    • Date: September 16, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Since 2009, Janice Stagnitto Ellis has been the senior paper and book conservator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Between 1992 and 1999, Ellis worked as a senior book conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. In her current role at the Museum, Ellis supervises the day-to-day operations of the Paper Conservation Lab. She is responsible for the

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  3. New York World's Fair Map

    Walt Disney's Progressland

    • Date: July 21, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.

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  5. Three men, two women and a child pulling rope to ring bell.

    Celebrating One Year and Many More to Come: National Museum of African American History and Culture

    • Date: September 26, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Just two days ago, the Smithsonian celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). It seems like just yesterday that we were all waiting for the doors to open; yet, so much has happened in the past year. Since President Barack Obama rang the bell that opened the museum, long lines and happy faces are

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  7. Taking a sample of mold.

    Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack

    • Date: July 26, 2016
    • Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.

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  9. To Post-it or Not to Post-it

    • Date: September 5, 2013
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: Although fun and easy to use, post-it notes are often harmful to archival records, as seen with the conservation of Cordelia Rose’s recently acquired scroll.

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  11. Detail of severe ink corrosion on RU 53, vol.32, p. 369, 09/23/2015. Courtesy of Laura Dellapiana

    Further Research in the Conservation and Preservation of Letterpress Copybooks

    • Date: January 26, 2016
    • Description: Postgraduate Fellow Laura Dellapiana presents new research outcomes for stabilization of letterpress copybooks with significant damage.

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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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    The Burning of the Smithsonian

    • Date: January 23, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: One hundred fifty years ago, on January 24, 1865, a massive fire erupted in the west wing of the Smithsonian Castle.

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  17. Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station and Tracks, 1882, Harpers Weekly, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78090.

    Quidditch in Henry Park?

    • Date: April 3, 2014
    • Description: This coming weekend muggles from around the world will be participating in the International Quidditch Association’s World Cup; but did you know that this growing sport may have a Smithsonian connection?

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  19. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018

    • Date: December 27, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  21. Cape Buffalo at National Zoological Park

    Where the Wild Things Are

    • Date: July 26, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Take a look at the residents of the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 1973 with these newly digitized images.

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  23. You Spin Me Round - Frisbee Festivals on the Mall

    • Date: May 23, 2019
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Starting in 1977, the National Air and Space Museum, with assistance from the International Frisbee Association, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, volunteer instructors from several states, and the Washington Area Frisbee Club, held their first Frisbee Festival on the National Mall.

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