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    What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?

    • Date: April 7, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and

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    Ditched Once, Loved Still

    • Date: January 5, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: A couple of years ago, in the process of curating Now is Then, an exhibition for the Newark Museum, I spent some time researching and thinking about the content, meaning and sequential lives of snapshots. Since their introduction in the late 19th century, inestimable numbers of those small, but powerful pictures have been made, looked at and saved—at least for a while.

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    SIA Acc. 06-063, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Central Engineering Department, Contract Files, 1978-1996

    • Date: 1978 1978-1996
    • Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Central Engineering Department
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 14-271, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Publicity Records, 1991-2013

    • Date: 1991 1991-2013
    • Creator: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  9. Field Book

    BCI Oct - Dec 1992, foraging behavior of bats, figs

    • Date: 1992 19921015 19921215
    • Creator: Handley, Charles O. (Charles Overton), 1924-2000

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    SIA Acc. 13-071, Smithsonian Associates, Audiotapes, 1976-1992

    • Date: 1976 1976-1992
    • Creator: Smithsonian Associates
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA RU007175, Peters, James Arthur 1922-1972, James A. Peters Papers, and Records of the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians, 1927-1973, and 1927-1966

    • Date: 1927 1927-1973 1927-1973, and 1927-1966
    • Creator: Peters, James Arthur, 1922-1972
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  15. A gray line drawing on a white field depicts four views of a box: at top left, a view from above showing the document and a support tube in the lower tray of the box; at bottom left, a cross-section view of the same; at top right, a cross-section view of the box lid, showing a pressure plate occupying the lower two-thirds of the lid; at bottom right, a view from below of the same, looking up into the lid and showing an area removed from the pressure plate to avoid damaging the wax seal.

    Happy birthday, Hungerford Deed!

    • Date: July 28, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Join us for a celebration of the Hungerford Deed on its 233rd birthday.

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    Happy Anniversary, National Museum of African American History and Culture!

    • Date: September 28, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A year ago on September 24, 2016, the Smithsonian gained a new museum — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Since then, 2.5 million people have visited the museum. In honor of their historic opening, we look back at photographer Michael Barnes' favorite images from the year.[view:sia_slideshow==77271]Related ResourcesHistory of the National Museum of

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    SIA Acc. 17-195, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Department of Education, Program Files, 1974-2008

    • Date: 1974 1974-2008
    • Creator: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Department of Education
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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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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    SIA Acc. 99-120, History of Science Society, Joint Committee on Archives of Science and Technology Records, 1978-1984

    • Date: 1978 1978-1984
    • Creator: History of Science Society
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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