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    See Here: 5/4/2011

    • Date: May 5, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Lafayette Park seen from the Old Executive Office Building, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1943."][/caption]

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  3. The new reflected near-infrared technology (far right) revealed unseen details

    Link Love: 6/22/2012

    • Date: June 22, 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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    Link Love: 4/8/2011

    • Date: April 8, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="198" caption="Screenshot from music video "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, Shows use of anti-gravity leaning patent, Courtesy of Wikipedia."][/caption] Umm, this definitely wins the award for my most favorite new discovery in an archive. How did Michael Jackson do that off the hook lean in his dance in “Smooth Criminal”? Apparently

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    Link Love: 3/4/2011

    • Date: March 4, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="Uncle Beazley being unloaded at the Smithsonian’s Office of Exhibits Central model shop, February 2011, Courtesy of Office of Exhibits Central blog."][/caption] Even dinosaurs need their baths… The Office of Exhibits Central gives a behind-the-scenes peek into the dino maintenance of Uncle Beazley—the Smithsonian’s

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    Link Love: 8/19/2011

    • Date: August 19, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: It’s an old fashioned card catalogue full of jokes! The National Museum of American History gives insight into Phyllis Diller’s “gag file”—50,000 annotated jokes featured in a new exhibition at the museum. How are institutions preserving born digital art? Here’s an article about Rhizome’s ArtBase—an archive of digital artworks [via the National Digital Information

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  11. A tweet from Hettie Ashwin mentioning her writing.

    Get Inspired: Using Smithsonian Images for Creative Writing

    • Date: January 17, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: A highlight of a series of creative writings inspired by photographs from the Smithsonian Flickr Commons and published at the online journal, Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure.

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    Meet Sarah Stierch: The Archives’ Wikipedian in Residence

    • Date: March 28, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives hosts Sarah Stierch as Wikipedian-in-Residence for Spring 2012.

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    Soldiers and the Mail

    • Date: July 24, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="U.S. Troops Surrounded by Holiday Mail During WWII, by unidentified photographer, c. 1944, National Postal Museum"][/caption] It’s no wonder that this photo of soldiers sorting holiday mail is such a favorite on the Commons. It clearly tugs on the heart strings of those who know (or try to imagine) what it would be like

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    Link Love: 7/23/2010

    • Date: July 23, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Visitors: Share photos of your trip to the Smithsonian museums in this new Flickr set! Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes posts an interview with Secretary Clough that includes a mention of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Institution’s overall prioritization of digitizing and archiving photographs. Time sink! The BBC launched a World Music Archive this morning! There

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    Link Love: 1/29/2010

    • Date: January 29, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="212" caption="Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man, 1840, by Hippolyte Bayard, Direct positive print, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] Photo Trivia I Didn’t Know: Hippolyte Bayard’s Self-portrait as a Drowned Man was protest about what he considered an unfair lack of recognition as photography's inventor [via @GettyMuseum] “Past the

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    Link Love: 12/3/2010

    • Date: December 3, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="311" caption="IC 4970 and NGC 6872: Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole, X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/M.Machacek; Optical: ESO/VLT; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Caltech."][/caption] I’m sure you’re familiar with beauties, like the one above, from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Well, apparently, with “a basic understanding of astronomy data & image

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    Link Love: 11/12/2010

    • Date: November 12, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Steven Cohn, the Smithsonian’s Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management and the museum’s representative Industrial Hygienist, tests Owney's fur for arsenic, lead and mercury. Courtesy of the National Postal Museum "Pushing the Envelope" blog."][/caption] More interesting preservation challenges. We’ve covered

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