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  1. The David Crockett Graham Field Book Collection: A Portal for Chinese Culture and Biodiversity

    • Date: June 21, 2012
    • Description: A closer look into the life and work of biologist, anthropologist and missionary David Crockett Graham.

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  3. Barney Studio House, Interior.

    The Alice Pike Barney Studio House

    • Date: December 4, 2014
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: A look at the Alice Pike Barney's Studio House that was donated to the Smithsonian on December 5, 1961.

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    Welcome Back: It’s Almost Like Riding a Bike

    • Date: July 28, 2022
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: We are getting back into the swing of things at the office while working with removable media.

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    Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

    • Date: April 27, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.

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    We've Got Mail?

    • Date: January 11, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Right after Thanksgiving, on a promotional tour stop for his post-presidential memoir, Decision Points, George W. Bush visited Palo Alto, California to chat with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to a CBS News report, Mr. Bush mentioned that while he has more than 600,000 Facebook "friends," and now uses a Blackberry and iPad, during his presidency, he didn’t make much

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  11. Whiteboards and poster boards are covered in post-its. It’s difficult to make out what they say. Temporary desks are below the boards.

    Take a picture, it’ll last longer

    • Date: November 2, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: On what better day than Election Day to follow up on that tidbit I dropped a couple weeks ago regarding a consultation about then-candidate Barack Obama’s dry-erase boards, a recent acquisition by the National Museum of African American History and Culture? These artifacts, along with archival material and other realia (in archives terms: a man-made three-dimensional object)

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  13. Doodles sketched by John F. Kennedy, 1961.

    Art in the Margins: John F. Kennedy's "Doodles in Dimension"

    • Date: November 10, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: President John F. Kennedy's doodles were given a new dimension by local Washington, D.C. sculptor Ralph M. Tate and the Anacostia Community Museum.

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    Earth Day

    • Date: April 19, 2012
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In September 1989 the Smithsonian sponsored a discussion between scientists and journalists about how the media can responsibly report on environmental issues.

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  17. Helen Miles Davis (left), Thomas Robert Henry (center) and Jane Stafford (right), 1942. Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-3802.

    Science Service, Up Close: Covering the Atom, August 1945

    • Date: August 6, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Details of Helen Miles Davis and Science Service coverage of the atomic bomb.

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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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  21. Various media flagged for archiving by the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    New Collections by the Numbers

    • Date: October 27, 2015
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: New Archives collections are trending towards more electronic records, but more paper as well.

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    We Don't Know about You, But We’re Feeling (20)22

    • Date: December 30, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Despite another year of telework and limited physical access to our collections, the Smithsonian Institution Archives has continued to serve our researchers and share more of our collections with the public.

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