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  1. Registrar Cordelia Rose added personal and humorous details to the scroll as the automation of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum registration process progressed. This photograph, placed near the end of the scroll, depicts programmer Jay Vanatta walking away and a thought bubble noting

    "Scrolling" Through Museum Processes

    • Date: September 12, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Two almost forgotten scrolls document the automation of museum processes at the Cooper-Hewitt.

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  3. Plymouth Rock Piece, 1620, Photo: Harold Dorwin.

    Link Love: 11/25/2011

    • Date: November 25, 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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  5. Here At The Smithsonian: Celebrating the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

    • Date: June 22, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The 2021 Smithsonian Folklife Festival begins this weekend. Let’s take a look back at past festivals.

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  7. A mixed media collection recently received from the National Zoological Park. Un

    How the Archives Gets its Records (or, Golden Lion Tamarins Galore)

    • Date: October 27, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    New Donation of Scopes Trial Photos to the Smithsonian Archives

    • Date: February 3, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  11. Three teens examining a hidden message on a pencil in front of gothic doors.

    Well-played!

    • Date: August 29, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Castle halls were alive with adventure this summer! From July 7th to August 27th, we piloted a live game for teens, The Mystery of the Meghatherium Club: Mayhem and Mustaches. A look at some of the early feedback received on the Smithsonian's pilot of a history game, "The Mystery of the Meghatherium Club: Mayhem and Mustaches."

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  13. Staff from the Archives Nationales d'Haiti and the CSBC.

    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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    Link Love: 7/23/2010

    • Date: July 23, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Visitors: Share photos of your trip to the Smithsonian museums in this new Flickr set! Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes posts an interview with Secretary Clough that includes a mention of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Institution’s overall prioritization of digitizing and archiving photographs. Time sink! The BBC launched a World Music Archive this morning! There

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  17. DC workers evacuate to the National Mall, August 23, 2011.

    All Shook Up: A History of Earthquakes at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 21, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After

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  19. The Smithsonian Goes Telephonic in 1878!

    • Date: June 28, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9592,size=200,left]Did you know the Smithsonian was an early adopter of the telephone? In June of 1878, a system of electronic bells and telephones was installed throughout the Smithsonian Castle. The system connected several workrooms and offices to provide instant communications within the building. At that time, there were only 187 telephone lines

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    See Here: 5/12/2010

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

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  23. Carl Weaver Mitman, Curator of Mineral and Mechanical Technology.

    Sneak Peek: 10/19/11

    • Date: October 19, 2011
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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