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  1. 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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    Link Love: 11/5/2010

    • Date: November 5, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="346" caption="Cockpit of the Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross, National Air and Space Museum, Image Number: WEB11659-2010, Courtesy of the Air and Space Museum Blog."][/caption] We’re usually dealing with paper, photos, and whiteboards over here at SIA, but the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum gives a nice overview of the hard

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  5. The payroll to slaveowners

    Link Love: 7/29/2016

    • Date: July 29, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The research behind Michelle Obama's statement that the White House was built partly by slaves. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is hiring a beer historian, but it does require you to do more than just drink beer. [via Washington City Paper][WARNING NSFW] 20 bawdy art history tweets for modern times! [via deMilked]19th century

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  7. Title Page of the Catalogue of the Library of the National Institute of the Promotion of Science.

    The Fate of the National Institute

    • Date: July 27, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that before the Smithsonian existed, there were two other institutions created for the promotion of science and diffusion of knowledge? Exploring the fate of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.

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    Archives Conservation in Haiti, Part 2: Audio and Video Collections

    • Date: December 21, 2011
    • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
    • Description: Current conditions of audiovisual archives in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

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  11. Black and white image of man standing on boat with ocean in the background.

    Can We Keep to a Schedule, Please?

    • Date: October 12, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The Smithsonian’s scientists and naturalists were, and still are, constantly on the move. When they weren’t in the field, they were in the museum studying collected specimens, writing papers, and getting ready for the next series of trips. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was no exception.Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific

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  13. Caribee stern, Schmitt on port side, 1959. Image SIA2018-109433.

    On Expedition with Waldo Schmitt

    • Date: July 31, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, some of Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitts field books are worth tens of thousands of words.

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    Answer me this?

    • Date: May 19, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  17. Google Analytics Map Showing Traffic to the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Bl

    Here's Looking at You

    • Date: June 25, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A peek into our metrics program at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Research at the Archives: Finding Grasses for the South

    • Date: May 26, 2011
    • Description: As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History, I’ve spent months in the Smithsonian Institution Archives researching a book tentatively titled, Not Naturally a Grass Country: Environment, Plant Genetics, and the Quest for Agricultural Modernization in the Humid World. It’s largely a story about global attempts to replace one form of agriculture—the

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  21. Portrait of smiling woman with blue graphic and text

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay

    • Date: February 21, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Scholar of military history, Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, has a dual doctorate in American art history and American studies, and is shortly releasing a book about how we remember war through material culture. #Groundbreaker

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  23. Storage Space at Museum Support Center (MSC)

    Sneak Peek 10/20/2014

    • Date: October 20, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Patent models and baskets occupy shelves in storage space at Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, Image Number: 2000-11186-06.

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