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    Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites

    • Date: August 2, 2011
    • Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.

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  3. Observations taken from 9 p.m. August 3th to 2 a.m. August 9, 1872 in Holt County, Missouri, of an aurora. Detailed, timed observations on a single sized document in purple ink.

    The Increase and Diffusion of Data

    • Date: October 19, 2021
    • Description: Research has been at the core of Smithsonian’s mission from the beginning, and sharing that research—through activities like publishing papers and data—is still key to fulfilling that mission for the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.”

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  5. Two African American women on Oprah's stage with

    Link Love: 6/8/2018

    • Date: June 8, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: “Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture," a new exhibit highlighting celebrity activist, Oprah Winfrey, opened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via WAPO]Archivists with The Obsidian Collection are digitizing and publishing newspapers that document the Great Migration, Civil Rights, and Jim Crow eras. [via Info

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  7. Auto polo (LOC), by Bain News Service, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915.

    Link Love: 3/9/2012

    • Date: March 9, 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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  9. Staff of the Bureau of International Exchanges, 1891.

    The Poetry of Solomon Brown

    • Date: April 19, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: We celebrate National Poetry Month with a look at one of the Smithsonian’s resident poets, Solomon G. Brown.

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  11. The mystery hairs, November 1, 2013, by Andrea Hall, Accession 12-320 - Edward William Nelson Field Notes, 1869-1886, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Porcupine, Deer, or Other? A Field Book Mystery

    • Date: November 12, 2013
    • Description: Use of microscopy and collaboration with members of the Smithsonian staff helped get to the bottom of a field book mystery.

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  13. 1963 March on Washington, 1963, by Jim Wallace, Smithsonian Institution Archives

    Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

    • Date: August 31, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  15. Castle of Curiosities Postcard

    New History App: "Castle of Curiosities"

    • Date: January 7, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: We are pleased to announce a new mobile experience produced by the Archives, Castle of Curiosities. The Smithsonian's first building, the Castle, opened its doors in 1855. While the Norman architectural style evoked "learned university," it was bordered by fetid canals and rather isolated from the rest of Washington D.C. Check out an app about iconic stories in the history of

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  17. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Susan Kaplan

    • Date: July 26, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Arctic anthropologist and archaeologist, Dr. Susan A. Kaplan (left), formerly of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History , directs the Peary McMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center, and studies Inuit responses to environmental change and Arctic exploration. #Groundbreaker

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  19. Smithsonian Now Using Archive-It to Crawl Websites

    • Date: February 26, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Smithsonian Institution Archives announces its use of Archive-It to crawl websites.

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  21. Iris, Bonnie, and Kiko travel on the O Line from the Great Ape House to the Thin

    The Great Escape

    • Date: December 27, 2011
    • Creator: Ginger Yowell
    • Description: Azy was the first orangutan to escape from the O Line at the National Zoo.

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  23. Harry Houdini, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, National Portrait Gallery,

    Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian

    • Date: December 26, 2011
    • Description: Harry Houdini visits Aleš Hrdlička at the National Museum to get measured and declines giving his remains to the Smithsonian.

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