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  1. The new reflected near-infrared technology (far right) revealed unseen details

    Link Love: 6/22/2012

    • Date: June 22, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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    Link Love: 4/8/2011

    • Date: April 8, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="198" caption="Screenshot from music video "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, Shows use of anti-gravity leaning patent, Courtesy of Wikipedia."][/caption] Umm, this definitely wins the award for my most favorite new discovery in an archive. How did Michael Jackson do that off the hook lean in his dance in “Smooth Criminal”? Apparently

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    Link Love: 3/4/2011

    • Date: March 4, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="Uncle Beazley being unloaded at the Smithsonian’s Office of Exhibits Central model shop, February 2011, Courtesy of Office of Exhibits Central blog."][/caption] Even dinosaurs need their baths… The Office of Exhibits Central gives a behind-the-scenes peek into the dino maintenance of Uncle Beazley—the Smithsonian’s

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    Link Love: 8/19/2011

    • Date: August 19, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: It’s an old fashioned card catalogue full of jokes! The National Museum of American History gives insight into Phyllis Diller’s “gag file”—50,000 annotated jokes featured in a new exhibition at the museum. How are institutions preserving born digital art? Here’s an article about Rhizome’s ArtBase—an archive of digital artworks [via the National Digital Information

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  9. Opening remarks from Bill Tompkins, National Collections Coordinator at SI.

    2011 Archives Fair Webcast Live Now

    • Date: October 14, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  11. A tweet from Hettie Ashwin mentioning her writing.

    Get Inspired: Using Smithsonian Images for Creative Writing

    • Date: January 17, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: A highlight of a series of creative writings inspired by photographs from the Smithsonian Flickr Commons and published at the online journal, Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure.

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  13. Princess Diana and John Travolta Dancing, Nov. 5, 1985. Click for full view.

    Link Love: 8/31/2012

    • Date: August 31, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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    Link Love: 11/12/2010

    • Date: November 12, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Steven Cohn, the Smithsonian’s Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management and the museum’s representative Industrial Hygienist, tests Owney's fur for arsenic, lead and mercury. Courtesy of the National Postal Museum "Pushing the Envelope" blog."][/caption] More interesting preservation challenges. We’ve covered

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    Link Love: 10/22/2010

    • Date: October 22, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="214" caption="Neighborhood Map (Hopkins, 1887), Hand-colored neighborhood map, Office of the Surveyor Map Collection, Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs."][/caption] Looks a lot cooler than it sounds: the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs will post more than a century’s worth of beautiful maps to Flickr [via Effie

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