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      The Smithsonian and Latin America

      • Date: February 15, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9988,size=500,center]While many people view the Smithsonian as a complex of museums in Washington, DC, it began as and still is an international organization devoted to research and education. A look at the Smithsonian Global website reveals where Smithsonian staff can be found today.Since the Smithsonian’s founding in 1846, the Institution has

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      Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success

      • Date: December 18, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.

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    5. Large black paper cutouts of children around a may pole.

      Link Love: 5/25/2018

      • Date: May 25, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has a new show on the history of silhouettes, a pre-photography method for capturing an individual's likeness. [via Artsy]"How To File Catalogs" and more Office 101. [via Smithsonian Libraries]What do archives look like before they come to clean boxes and folder arrangement? Yikes. [via Cambridge University Library Special

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    7. Atatürk Bust, San Posta, 23 Temmuz 1931, SALT Research, https://www.flickr.com/photos/saltonline/14482745040/.

      You Asked, We Answered: 2014 Archives Facebook Q&A

      • Date: November 4, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On Monday, October 27th, four of our finest were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fourth year hosting this event and

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    9. Freeze Frame (Freeze Frame)!

      • Date: May 12, 2022
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: At the Archives we get to see hundreds and hundreds (technically ~3 million if we wanted) images and photographs. We sometimes lose focus (ahh, get it) of all the amazing people behind the lens.National Photograph Month at the Archives

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    11. Lerner puts his hands over Rosenberg’s as the two hold a knife and cut into a cake with a Christmas tree on its top. They are both smiling at the camera.

      Dorothy Rosenberg: "A Low-keyed Dynamo"

      • Date: September 16, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: As an administrative officer to two Assistant Secretaries and as executive assistant to Secretary Ripley, Dorothy Rosenberg was the backbone behind the Smithsonian’s top offices between 1959 and 1980.

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    13. Elmo and Fozzie Bear wait in the conservation lab before their debut at the donation ceremony. Courtesy of the National Museum of American History.

      Link Love: 9/27/2013

      • Date: September 27, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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      Records and Information Management Month: The Registrar

      • Date: April 23, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Did you know that April is Records and Information Management Month? What is records and information management? Glad you asked! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Dan Brown Books, by Federico Filacchione, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Information is collected data, thoughts, ideas, or memories. Records are documents that contain information

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    17. Page from a coloring activitity of rooms in the Smithsonian Castle. This one is of the library.

      Distance Learning Activities and Tips from the Archives

      • Date: April 14, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Whether you have a little downtime or you wish you remembered what downtime was like, the Archives is here for you with a few distance learning activities and organization tips.

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    19. Mitch in his holiday sweater.

      Ch-ch-ch-changes, 2015 edition!

      • Date: November 5, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: It is with sadness that I report that Mitch Toda is stepping down as the blog coordinator. Since 2011, Mitch Toda has been the man behind-the-scenes making sure everything runs smoothly. As a staff archivist, he works daily with the records he takes in from Smithsonian museums and offices such as the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Office of

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      I Found It In the Archives

      • Date: October 14, 2010
      • Creator: Ginger Yowell
      • Description: As you may know, the Smithsonian is celebrating Archives Month this October. This year, the Society of American Archivists is observing the month with the theme "I Found It in the Archives," which is meant to promote the treasures and gems that researchers find in archival collections, such as genealogical information about their families or materials related to their special

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      American History in an Earthenware Teacup

      • Date: January 14, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: C. Malcolm Watkins (1911-2001), curator of cultural history at the National Museum of American History, was a pioneer of material culture studies and historic archeology.

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