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    1. Archival notebook in open archival housing.

      A Close-up with Field Book “Specimens”

      • Date: December 26, 2017
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: The Smithsonian’s Field Book Project is a continuous fount of work for both our digitization crew here at the Archives and for me as the conservator in charge of the project’s physical needs. Over the past several weeks I have worked on a variety of field books with different structures and treatment requirements, and will share a few of the most common features I’ve seen in

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    3. Cortege Bringing James Smithson Remains to Smithsonian, 1904, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 82-3337.

      Hot Topics in Archival Research

      • Date: October 9, 2014
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: Topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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      Link Love: 11/30/2012

      • Date: November 30, 2012
      • 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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      Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’

      • Date: December 23, 2014
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Software tools are helping the Smithsonian find its early websites from the 1990s on the web.

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    9. This is the AV equipment that we have here at the Archives which we make available to other units who may need it.

      The Power of Collaboration

      • Date: October 21, 2014
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Audiovisual archivists come together at the annual meeting of the Association of Moving Image Archivists to create tools for audiovisual conservation.

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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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      Call for Entries! Women’s History Month

      • Date: March 2, 2009
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month, we invite you to submit your photo and story about how photography both shapes and reflects women’s lives and accomplishments. Starting on March 8th, International Women's Day, we will also be featuring photographs of women scientists on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons photostream. We hope that these photos of women scientists and our

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      Old Photos, New Histories

      • Date: May 20, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Square House, Man, Child, and Dog on Lawn, ca. 1855, by Unknown photographer, Daguerreotype with applied color (1/2 plate), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.234."][/caption] Often we are

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      But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

      • Date: May 23, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Beauty is forever, by Just Warr, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic."][/caption] At THE BIGGER PICTURE, we often write about the challenges of maintaining the data in digital archives. But a recent article bundled in the informative daily arts newsletter compiled by Jeff Weiss—you can subscribe by sending a request

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    19. B&W photograph of steel crossbeams above a wide open room.

      Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994

      • Date: July 5, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.

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    21. Org chart, New York and Erie Railroad, 1855. Courtesy of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

      Link Love: 3/21/2014

      • Date: March 21, 2014
      • 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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      Making Sense of Data That’s Linked and Open

      • Date: June 23, 2011
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: If you are a regular reader, or someone who works for a museum, library, or archive, you intimately understand the difficulty in managing big collections. If you’re not in this world, you do understand how hard it is to manage family photographs, a collection of email love letters, or the folder tucked in the bottom of your closet with old college papers. When you multiply

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