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      It Takes a Village

      • Date: October 13, 2010
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Sometimes a single picture or new piece of information can open a window to a whole new perspective. In my case, it was a couple of sentences—spoken at a recent presentation at the Best Practices Exchange 2010 conference in Phoenix, Arizona—that turned out to be revelatory. The conference was a gathering of archivists, librarians, record managers, and digital curators whose

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    3. NARA's new and updated National Archives Catalog.

      Link Love: 12/12/2014

      • Date: December 12, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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    5. Portrait of an older woman.

      Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

      • Date: April 1, 2021
      • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    7. Putting It All Together: The Assembly and Rehousing of Glass Plate Negatives

      • Date: August 21, 2012
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    9. Thomas F. Flannery (1919-1999) was a cartoonist for Yank, the U.S. Army magazine, during World War II. After the war, he became a newspaper editorial cartoonist, eventually working for the Baltimore Sun, 1957-1988. Several thousand of his original drawings are in the Johns Hopkins University Library.

      Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists

      • Date: August 27, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    11. The World Is Yours: Rockets and Planets

      • Date: February 18, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Rockets and Planets.”

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    13. A man in a gray hooded sweatshirt bends over a textile-mounted piece of art on paper; he is pressing a heated metal spatula against a piece of white insulating paper to soften heat-sensitive paper as a mending technique. The art on paper is supported on a clear acrylic board suspended between two white tables.

      Some Conservator Career Advice

      • Date: July 11, 2019
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: So you want to be a conservator? In this continuation of our series on career advice, one of our conservators shares some advice for those looking to explore the professional field of cultural heritage conservation.

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    15. Portrait of a man wearing a suit with a beard.

      Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

      • Date: July 13, 2021
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    17. Home Page of the First Smithsonian Website, Accession 98-094: Office of the Secretary, Smithsonian Website Records, 1995, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2012-0382.

      The Electronic Smithsonian

      • Date: May 7, 2015
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A look back at the first Smithsonian home page, launched 20 years ago.

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    19. Curator of Paleontology Division Charles Lewis Gazin looks on as vertebrate paleontology preparators Norman Boss (center) and Arlton Murray (right) prepare a giant sloth skeleton in the Vertebrate Preparation Lab for exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, 1940s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MNH-37289B.

      Arlton C. Murray, Smithsonian Employee Who Became a Creation Scientist

      • Date: December 26, 2013
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: The search to prove/disprove the office story of Arlton C. Murray, the Smithsonian employee who became a creation scientist.

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    21. 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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    23. Making Plaster Mold of Body of Sulphur-Bottom Whale, 1903, lantern slide.

      A Whale of a Tale

      • Date: November 13, 2014
      • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
      • Description: In honor of the 163rd anniversary of the publishing of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, here’s a whale themed slideshow.

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