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  1. Worn portrait of man sitting cross-legged in wooden chair next to a table with a lamp and books.

    Link Love: 10/13/2017

    • Date: October 13, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own

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    Archives Puzzles: You’ve Got Mail

    • Date: September 28, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This season, have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    Sybil Hamlet’s History of the National Zoo

    • Date: May 17, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that the first beaver came to the National Zoological Park in 1894? Or that the first animals on the official zoo grounds were two Indian Elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust? Surely, you knew that the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok donated an albino Asiatic turtle to the National Zoo in 1966? You didn’t know that? Well, thanks to the work of Sybil Hamlet in 1985, you can now

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  7. Finding Something Cool Without Even Trying

    • Date: August 2, 2012
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Japanese internees in Topaz, Utah find a meteorite.

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    Faces in the Crowd

    • Date: March 3, 2011
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting new photos of women scientists to the Flickr Commons and highlighting these women in blog posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE, in honor of Women's History Month.[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="An unidentified woman (possibly Alice Haskins) sitting with U.S. Department of Agriculture,

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  11. Checking the contents of the boxes against the finding aid to ensure all materials are accounted for.

    Project SEARCH Comes to the Archives

    • Date: June 16, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: This spring, the Archives welcomed Heather Weiss, a Project SEARCH intern, and as her time with us comes to an end, we wanted to highlight her accomplishments.

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  13. A Quest for the First Asian Employee

    • Date: May 10, 2012
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A search for the first Asian employee at the Smithsonian leads to Kuang-zung Tung.

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  15. Hubbard squash, 2014, courtesy of Jennifer Wright.

    A Recipe from the Archives: Gourmet Golden Squash

    • Date: November 25, 2014
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A 30 year old Hubbard squash recipe found in the Archives.

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    “Do Pandas Affect Everyone This Way?”: Celebrating 50 Years of Giant Pandas at the National Zoo

    • Date: April 14, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This year marks the 50th anniversary since the arrival of giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the National Zoo. To celebrate, we’re highlighting some giant panda records at the Archives.

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    Color our Collections

    • Date: October 22, 2020
    • Description: Grab your colored pencils. It’s National Color Day!

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    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives’ Website

    • Date: April 3, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_392769,size=450,center]The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website.See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  23. Preservation of Executable Files

    • Date: July 24, 2012
    • Description: As archives begin to receive executable files, archives must think about if and how to preserve them so their content lasts.

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