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      The Born-Digital Diaries: “Interrogate the Floppy!”

      • Date: April 28, 2020
      • Description: As an intern with the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I developed strategies that would make our born-digital collections more accessible to the researcher and enhance discoverability.

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      Link Love: 4/20/2018

      • Date: April 20, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: When Mickey Mouse was used in war propaganda. [via National Museum of American History]NASA is on the search for new planets. [via BBC]The Initiative for Open Citations is attempting to make an open repository of citations. [via Boing Boing]Benjamin Franklin's papers are now online at Library of Congress. [via LOC blog]Service training for DC police officers — a visit to the

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    5. Facing our Fears

      • Date: October 30, 2018
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: An unusually serious Halloween post in which we dress up to stage a mock recovery from a museum fire.

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      Exploring Oral History at the Smithsonian

      • Date: April 6, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: A brief history and exploration of oral history collections at the Smithsonian.

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      Archives Conservation in Haiti, Part 1

      • Date: December 13, 2011
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: This is the first of two posts on the Archives' conservators’ work with the Smithsonian’s Haiti Cultural Recovery project, which works to rescue and safeguard objects damaged by the 2010 earthquake.

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    11. Digital contact sheet that includes 12 photographs of Jones standing in front of the Smithsonian Castle. He is wearing a suit. He looks directly toward the camera and slightly off into the distance in various photographs.

      The Life and Legacy of Alphonso Lorenzo Jones

      • Date: February 17, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Alphonso Lorenzo Jones joined the Smithsonian in 1924 as a mechanic. He retired 41 years later as the chief of the Institution’s duplicating office.

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      Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

      • Date: January 12, 2021
      • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Majewski

      • Date: May 19, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      See Here: 4/14/2011

      • Date: April 14, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="283" caption="Captain Harold W. Hancock stands on the Natural History steps dressed in his Smithsonian Security Officer Force uniform, He celebrated his eighth year as captain of Natural History’s Office of Protection Services, Company A in 1992, Richard Strauss, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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      Spotlight: Henry Joseph Horan, Superintendent of Buildings

      • Date: July 29, 2021
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: A closer look at staff member Henry Horan (1838-1896), who held several positions at the Smithsonian, including janitor, watchman, and superintendent of buildings, during his long career at the Institution.

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      Ready-made Home for a Scimitar Horned Oryx and Przewalski’s Horse

      • Date: June 25, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.

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      Folklife Festival 2011: Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program

      • Date: July 7, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held from June 30 to July 4 and July 7 to 11, 2011 on the National Mall. Read more about the history of the Folklife Festival here. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order authorizing the Peace Corps to

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