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    Link Love: 6/26/2015

    • Date: June 26, 2015
    • 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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  3. Hallager holding a kori bustard. The caption below reads: Sara Hallager, curator of birds at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, is responsible for managing daily avian care, including bird well-being, reproductive programs, conservation programs, exhibitions, and interpretive public programs. She began working at the Zoo as a volunteer in 1984 and as an employee in 1987. #Groundbreaker.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sara Hallager

    • Date: September 2, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: At the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, we are determined not to let history repeat itself. From our colleagues at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, who research and track birds in the wild, to our Bird House keepers who care for and breed these animals at the Zoo, we are working together to study, understand and protect common birds

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  5. Book covered in bubble wrap with note

    Link Love: 8/24/2018

    • Date: August 24, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Swingin’ and Swayin’ in the Archives

    • Date: August 12, 2010
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  9. One of the enlargements following treatment and mounting. Photo by Michael Barnes.

    Re-mounting the American Bison

    • Date: February 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the

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    What price fame?

    • Date: August 5, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Greta Garbo, by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1939, National Portrait Gallery, © Estate of Clarence Sinclair Bull"][/caption] Annie Leibovitz isn’t the first celebrity photographer to become as famous as the subjects she shoots (think Matthew Brady, Edward Steichen, and Richard Avedon, to name just a few).  But in the last few

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  13. Off with their Heads?: Matchbooks in Archives

    • Date: May 2, 2013
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: The conservator considers potential damage to and from matchbooks in collections.

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  15. Office space with one man working at the second desk closest to the camera. Books are on the desks. There is collections storage on the right side.

    Archives Puzzles: Happy (Almost) National Bird Day

    • Date: January 4, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: 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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    Buster Keaton’s Donation to the Smithsonian

    • Date: May 4, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: One of the things we do here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) is keep track of original records about donors and the objects they have given to the Smithsonian—and so we have donor and accession records dating back to our earliest years. Because of this, it’s common to receive a reference request beginning something like, “My great-great grandmother donated a

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  19. The first page of Margaret S. Collins’ memorial service pamphlet.

    A Legend in Termite Field Biology

    • Date: March 2, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Before DNA Made Them Famous - Crick, Wilkins, and Watson

    • Date: February 27, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391843,size=300,center]By the 1960s, Science Service had been acquiring photographs of scientists, obscure as well as famous, for over four decades. Portraits of Edison or Einstein were always in demand, but experience had also shown that bright, accomplished young people might someday be awarded a major prize or make a discovery deemed

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  23. The Washington Times (Washington D.C.), 23 July 1909

    All Aboard the Chesapeake Beach Railway!

    • Date: July 12, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look at the train that once traveled between Chesapeake Beach and Washington, D.C.

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