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  1. Canela Indian dwelling in Brazil.

    Sneak Peek: 02/22/2012

    • Date: February 22, 2012
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Canela Indian dwelling in Brazil

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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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    The Archives Contributes to a new Website on the Burgess Shale

    • Date: December 8, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives contributes images to a new website about the Burgess Shale, a paleontological site located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, by Royal Ontario Museum and Parks Canada.

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  7. B&W photograph of Island with markers showing Eniwetok and Perry Islands

    Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!

    • Date: January 30, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping

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    Beating Hearts

    • Date: August 11, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Artists are often among the researchers who comb through archives in search of inspiration and content. A few years back in 2008, an encyclopedic exhibition, Archive Fever, presented at the International Center of Photography in New York, presented works by leading contemporary artists who have made active use of archival images, documents, and methodology to explore the ways

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    Scantastic: Scanning Archival Images to Make Them More Useful

    • Date: May 24, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  13. Two women in white lab coats and hair covers lean over a large flag with red and white stripes.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Suzanne Thomassen-Kraus

    • Date: April 13, 2022
    • 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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    Down at the Drive-In

    • Date: August 4, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1679" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Untitled (Drive-In: Circle Theatre), Steve Fitch, 1976, Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection"][/caption] Media and transportation seem forever linked. As I wrote in a previous post, the portable camera and the bicycle made a very nice pairing in their early years at the turn of the 20th century.

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    See Here: 2/1/2011

    • Date: February 1, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="A group of scientists leaves Barro Colorado Island in a small boat, during 1923, Smithsonian staff were in Panama with the Institute for Research in Tropical America, a group of private foundations and universities under the auspices of the National Research Council, who first established a research laboratory on Barro

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    Mapping the Moon

    • Date: May 19, 2009
    • Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of

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  21. Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

    • Date: March 31, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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  23. The Hayden Surevy Group, 1887

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: May 2, 2017
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this spring by researchers at the Archives.

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