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    1. Star Symbol memorandum, August 30, 1968. Record Unit 319: National Collection of Fine Arts, Publication Editor, Departmental Records, 1967-1970, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Design + Archives: Star Search

      • Date: January 26, 2017
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

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      Looking for Women Managers of the Smithsonian’s Museums

      • Date: March 16, 2022
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: When did women begin to manage Smithsonian museums? Meet Grace Dunham Guest who was a key staff member in opening the Freer Gallery of Art in 1923.

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      The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers

      • Date: April 25, 2019
      • Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.

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    7. Charles Eames sketch for carousel pavilion, Record Unit 99 - Office of the Secretary, Records, 1964-1971, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Design + Archives = Eames and the Mall Carousel

      • Date: January 30, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: When Secretary Ripley commissioned Charles Eames to design a structure to enclose the carousel on the Mall.

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      This Day in Smithsonian History: National Air and Space Museum Authorized

      • Date: September 6, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: On September 6, 1958 President Eisenhower authorized preparation of plans for the construction of what is now the National Air and Space Museum.

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      Sybil Hamlet’s History of the National Zoo

      • Date: May 17, 2018
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Did you know that the first beaver came to the National Zoological Park in 1894? Or that the first animals on the official zoo grounds were two Indian Elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust? Surely, you knew that the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok donated an albino Asiatic turtle to the National Zoo in 1966? You didn’t know that? Well, thanks to the work of Sybil Hamlet in 1985, you can now

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      Archives Puzzles: Kicking Back Like It’s 1880

      • Date: September 21, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This season, 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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      Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites

      • Date: August 2, 2011
      • Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.

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    17. A close-up view of a parchment sheet, covered closely with black ink writing. A passage is highlighted in yellow, “Estate at Studley and Calne and other Places in the County of Wilts[hire].”

      Tracing Inheritance in the Hungerford Deed

      • Date: September 24, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: The Hungerford Deed split an inherited estate between two sisters—but what do we know about those properties? We’ve dug deep into one of them here.

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      Volunteer Appreciation: Peter Finkel

      • Date: January 17, 2011
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_10960" align="aligncenter" width="376" caption="Peter Finkel, volunteer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. "][/caption] Here at the Archives, we have 25 fulltime staff members, and half as many volunteers and interns at any given moment.

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    21. Invitation to the opening of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum in 1987.

      Design + Archives: Anacostia Community Museum

      • Date: February 21, 2017
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Celebrating 50 years in 2017, the Anacostia Community Museum opened on September 15, 1967.

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      Climbing to Historical Heights

      • Date: July 20, 2010
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: While in graduate school, I read that museum professionals wear many hats in one day. This could not be truer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. [caption id="attachment_7424" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Climbing the Plank to the Top, May 27, 2010, by Lauren Dare, Digital photograph."][/caption] I’ve worn many hats working in the Institutional History Division

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