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  1. Takin' Care of Records

    • Date: April 17, 2018
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Did you know April is Records and Information Management Month? Did you also know that the Smithsonian Institution has over 154 million objects, 10 million digital records, and 156,830 cubic feet of archival materials in its collections? It is mostly thanks to amazing record keeping that we are able to locate, care, and give access to millions of fascinating objects.We look at

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  3. A woman stands behind a man, in the forefront. Both are standing near a portrait photograph of Abraham Lincoln.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ann M. Shumard

    • Date: April 8, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Ann M. Shumard has worked to develop the photography collection at the National Portrait Gallery as an Assistant Curator, 1979–2001, and Senior Curator of Photographs, 2001–present. She has curated more than a dozen exhibitions and serves on the Smithsonian’s Collections Advisory Committee. #Groundbreaker

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  5. A woman smiles directly at the camera. Her hair is in a bun and she is wearing blue earrings and a necklace.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Claudine K. Brown

    • Date: February 27, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Claudine K. Brown began her long career with Smithsonian as the Director of the African American History Project, 1990–1995, developing a program plan for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Brown also served as Smithsonian’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Arts and Humanities, 1991-1995. She returned to the Smithsonian in 2010 as Assistant

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  7. Wishing you a Trivial New Year!

    • Date: January 4, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Happy National Trivia Day! January 4th is the perfect day to break out all those endless bits of knowledge stored in your noggin and share them with others. As for the history of National Trivia Day, it's thought that the creation of the game Trivial Pursuit in 1979 sparked the beginning of our fascination with trivia, and everythinge else is history, as they say. To feed our

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    A Well Engineered Photograph

    • Date: November 20, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Construction of the Pension Building, Designed by Montgomery Meigs, c. 1883, by Unknown photographer, Albumen print, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Image ID: AFS 182."][/caption] One of the first collections that I encountered during my travels through the photography collections of the

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    Museum Computer Network and the Smithsonian Institution: The Vision

    • Date: April 13, 2017
    • Description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Museum Computer Network, this first blog explores the early interactions of MCN with the Smithsonian.

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  13. Van der Van der Reyden stands behind a conservator working on a document at a desk.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dianne van der Reyden

    • Date: March 17, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dianne van der Reyden was a paper conservator at the Smithsonian from 1981 to 2002. She was hired by the National Museum of American History in 1981 and was promoted to senior paper conservator and head of the paper conservation section before transferring to the Smithsonian’s Conservation Analytical Laboratory in 1984. There, van der Reyden was promoted to head of paper

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  15. Cyanotype, disassembled mannequins in Post Office Department exhibit at Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, 1895, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 12659.

    Sneak Peek 10/28/2019

    • Date: October 28, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Cyanotype, disassembled mannequins in Post Office Department exhibit at Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, 1895, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 12659.

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  17. The Smithsonian in Wartime web exhibit

    Smithsonian in Wartime – A New Web Exhibit!

    • Date: August 9, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Announcing a new web exhibit exploring the Smithsonian’s role in the nation’s war efforts.

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  19. Winter’s arrival brings the annual increase of requests for photos by Wilson A.

    Hot Topics in Archives Research

    • Date: February 18, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  21. A man sits at a desk in an office. Papers and books are stacked on desks in the office.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022

    • Date: July 21, 2022
    • Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.

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  23. Cyanotype, Riker Electric Mail Wagon vehicle for exhibition by Post Office Department at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.

    Sneak Peek 4/6/2020

    • Date: April 6, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Cyanotype, Riker Electric Mail Wagon vehicle for exhibition by Post Office Department at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, USNM No. 13751.

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