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  1. Black and white photograph of a village with various structures on a hilltop.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2021

    • Date: July 8, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Isabel C. Pérez Farfante

    • Date: September 1, 2021
    • 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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  5. Portrait of African American woman with head resting in hand in front of colorful abstract art.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Rhea Combs

    • Date: November 29, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: As head of the Center for African American Media Arts, National Museum of African American History and Culture, curator Dr. Rhea Combs leads effort to collect, preserve, and make accessible an extensive collection of films, photographs, and recordings documenting African American history. #Groundbreaker

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  7. B&W photoshopped image of creators heads on figures wearing graduation gowns and hats

    Link Love: 12/22/2017

    • Date: December 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The 2018 public domain graduates, including Aleister Crowley, René Magritte, Alice B. Toklas, Pierre Bonnard, and Winston Churchill! [via Public Domain Review]The history of dealing with lack of light in Scandanavia, and Happy Solstice! [via Mosaic Science]Aww, baby pictures of the internet from 1973! [via Open Culture]Close-ups of Jupiter from NASA look like impressionist

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  9. A person twists on a chair and their profile is visible. Wallpaper is in the background.

    The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 2 of 2: Who and How, and Why It Matters

    • Date: September 10, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The historical legacy of amatuer photographer Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) is far greater than was acknowledged at the time, because of both who he photographed and how he set up the images.

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  11. From the Walt Whitman Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

    Link Love: 2/17/2012

    • Date: February 17, 2012
    • 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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    Link Love: 4/2/2010

    • Date: April 2, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Whoa!!! Google Streetview and Google Books now come in 3D (if you have 3D glasses stashed in your desk, like I do!). Click the dude with the 3D glasses above to check out a view of the Smithsonian Castle in 3D. Grand Paris! La Tour Eiffel under construction, and a giant 26-Gigapixel panorama of the city [via Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities and Effie Kapsalis, SPI]. A “Ghandi

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  15. People in suits and long skirts walk around the Tidal Basin with cherry blossoms in the background. The Washington Monument is visible.

    Archives Puzzles: Cherry Blossom Szn

    • Date: March 15, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.Even though it’s not quite spring, the start of daylight savings time has our minds in cherry blossom

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    Picturing Infinity: The Hubble Telescope’s Universal View

    • Date: May 11, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_827" align="aligncenter" width="242" caption="Spacecraft Hubble: Hubble in Flight, 2007, NASA"][/caption] Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. Welcome Joseph Caputo, intern at the Smithsonian Magazine. In April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was dropped off 353 miles above

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    Folklife Festival 2011: Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program

    • Date: July 7, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held from June 30 to July 4 and July 7 to 11, 2011 on the National Mall. Read more about the history of the Folklife Festival here. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order authorizing the Peace Corps to

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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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  23. Link Love: 3/1/2013

    • Date: March 1, 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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