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    1. Lightning Fast Legislation for the National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: November 29, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Twenty-nine years ago yesterday the National Museum of the American Indian Act was signed and the Museum of the American Indian became part of the Smithsonian family.

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    3. Secretary Clough at the Museum Support Center.

      Link Love: 9/2/2011

      • Date: September 2, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Smithsonian Secretary Clough's most recent earthquake update. Whoa. For all you web nerds out there, check out this interactive timeline called, "The evolution of the web," which takes us through the birth and death of many a web browser, coding language, and web specific technology [via Swissmiss]. A Smithsonian Institution Libraries intern recounts her internship experience,

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    5. Smithsonian Gardens' Cindy Brown in front of the gardenias at the Enid A. Haupt Garden.

      Link Love: 6/16/2017

      • Date: June 16, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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    7. Smithsonian Crowdsourcing Since 1849!

      • Date: April 14, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Robert Ridgway – From Protégé to a Leading Ornithologist

      • Date: February 27, 2020
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: As a teenager, Robert Ridgway was tapped by the Smithsonian’s Assistant Secretary to be an expedition zoologist. In 1881, when the US National Museum opened its doors, he was the curator of Birds. Download and reuse some of bird illustrations today through Smithsonian Open Access.

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    11. "The whole Smithsonian was like one big family . . . "

      • Date: March 12, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: For forty years, Miss Helena Weiss kept the Smithsonian running smoothly as a clerk, stenographer, director of the Office of Correspondence and Documents, and Registrar. When she retired, her position was divided into seven separate jobs.

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    13. Painting of the Renwick Gallery, by Briggs, Frederic Schuler, c. 1870, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, SIA2011-1143 and 50444 CN and 2002-12221.

      The Renwick Rises Again

      • Date: November 19, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The Renwick Gallery has just reopened after a two-year renovation, reinventing itself yet again. Its history has mirrored the history of the nation.

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    15. A screenshot of Cambridge University Library’s new digital archive of Newton.

      Link Love: 12/16/2011

      • Date: December 16, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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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      Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives’ Website

      • Date: January 18, 2018
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collections to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.New Finding Aids Online: A group of collections documenting the field work of scientists who worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology:

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    19. 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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    21. Two-Year Old Boy Sitting in Basket 1909, NAA INV 06226600, Glass Negative, National Anthropological Archives.

      You Asked, We Answered: 2015 Ask an Archivist

      • Date: November 10, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On Thursday, October 22nd, four of our archivists/conservators 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 fifth year hosting

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    23. Two men and one woman speak outdoors. The woman is at the center.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Sharon F. Patton

      • Date: September 25, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Sharon F. Patton, Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, 2003-2008, oversaw the museum’s 9,000 African art objects and welcomed the distinguished Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection. Under her leadership, the museum opened its first traveling exhibition and established a visiting artists program. #Groundbreaker

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