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  1. The broken joint and damaged headcap needed significant attention before the volume could be scanned safely. Courtesy of William Bennett.

    Minute by Minute: Preparing Board of Regents Records for Digitization

    • Date: September 10, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Take a look behind the scenes at the Archives as conservation staff prepares one of our important collections for digitization.

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  3. No. 40. Crew member preparing plant specimens for Smithsonian, off the east coast of Greenland, 1936. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007231, Image no. SIA2012-0660

    Another Milestone Met: Reminiscing about the Field Book Project and Looking Forward

    • Date: February 21, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.

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  5. The World Is Yours: Rockets and Planets

    • Date: February 18, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Rockets and Planets.”

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  7. Group viewing footage of Ling-Ling on camera.

    Saving Giant Pandas: Conservation at the National Zoo

    • Date: August 23, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Today is Giant Panda cub Bao Bao’s third birthday, and yesterday her little brother, Bei Bei, turned one. This marks the first time in the forty-four years of panda conservation at the National Zoo that there have been two healthy cubs in residence at the zoo at the same time, but that’s not for lack of trying.

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  9. Letter - Mary Agnes Chase to Albert Spear Hitchcock, July 5, 1935.

    The Other Side of Mary Agnes Chase

    • Date: March 19, 2015
    • Description: Mary Agnes Chase is known for her extensive contributions to the study of grasses, but who was Mary Agnes Chase? Why is her private life so shrouded in mystery, and how can we find out more.

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  11. Treasured Cameras, a short photo series by photographer Julian Calverley.

    Link Love: 2/28/2014

    • Date: February 28, 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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    Archives Puzzles: The Woman’s Building

    • Date: March 8, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  15. 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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  17. Portrait photograph of Ellen Lupton in a large frame.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Lupton

    • Date: August 12, 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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  19. Doodles sketched by John F. Kennedy, 1961.

    Art in the Margins: John F. Kennedy's "Doodles in Dimension"

    • Date: November 10, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: President John F. Kennedy's doodles were given a new dimension by local Washington, D.C. sculptor Ralph M. Tate and the Anacostia Community Museum.

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  21. Link Love: 06/12/2020

    • Date: June 12, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  23. User scrolls down the page for the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Twitter in 2014.

    #AskAnArchivist 2020: Sharing From Home

    • Date: October 8, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: You asked. We answered. On October 7, 2020, six Archives staff members were excited and ready to answer questions on Twitter and Instagram for #AskAnArchivist Day.

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