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    1. Specimen card from the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

      The Oval Office meets the Castle: Presidents at the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 8, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Smithsonian Castle sits just over a mile away from Washington D.C.’s most notable address,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are more than just a short walk away from the White House, however—we are directly tied to it and its occupants. Not only does the Smithsonian collect the history of United States Presidents (including, yes, Lincoln’s top hat and even the hair of a few

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    3. New York World's Fair Map

      Walt Disney's Progressland

      • Date: July 21, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.

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    5. One of the many behind-the-scenes photos in the Archives new Flickr photostream.

      Introducing the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ New Flickr Photostream

      • Date: May 2, 2012
      • Creator: Susannah Wells
      • Description: Smithsonian Institution Archives is now using Flickr hightlight behind-the-scenes projects, workshops, and staff at work.

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    7. DArcInfo (Digital Archive Information System) provides details about the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ born-digital collections. img src: 202005_DArcinfo.jpg

      The Work Continues While We Are Away

      • Date: May 21, 2020
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian archivists are reviewing challenges with sharing born-digital collections.

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    9. Revisiting the Magnificent Enterprise

      • Date: March 20, 2018
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month, we’d like to revisit an important and inspiring exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in 1961. “The Magnificient Enterprise: Education Opens the Door” was a photographic exhibition based on the 100 years of higher education for women. Sponsored by Vassar College in observance of its

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    11. Portrait of Jones. She is wearing a formal white jacket with black accents on the collar, buttons, and front pockets. She is wearing large, thin, round glasses and a gold necklace. Jones is a Black woman.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Carolyn E. Jones

      • Date: February 2, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Carolyn E. Jones was the director of the Smithsonian’s Office of Human Resources between 1996 until her retirement in 2003. She initially joined the Institution in 1983 as a financial analyst and at various periods worked as the director of parking and as the chief financial officer for the Smithsonian’s mail order distribution division. Jones served as the chair of the

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      Heart of Glass

      • Date: October 5, 2017
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph

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    15. A woman stands in front of renderings of the Udvar-Hazy Center that are hanging on the wall.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sheryl Kolasinski

      • Date: January 8, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Sheryl Kolasinski, Director, Office of Planning and Project Management, 1995–2011, and Deputy Director, Office of Facilities Engineering and Operations, 2011–2012, managed major capital projects and helped maintain safety and security across the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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    17. NMAI Architectural Plan, April, 2001, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accessio

      Digital Dilemma: Preserving Computer Aided Design (CAD) Files

      • Date: December 1, 2011
      • Description: Smithsonian Institution museums, buildings, electronic records preservation, CAD files, PDF/E

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    19. Rosenthal stands outdoors with her arms crossed.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Aviva Rosenthal

      • Date: December 2, 2020
      • 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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      Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 13, 2016
      • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
      • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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    23. Large book resting on a table. It is open to a page.

      Thinking Outside the Smithsonian Institution Archives

      • Date: July 2, 2019
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: There are many smaller archival conferences to learn about new tools and projects.

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