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  1. Photos courtesy Zak Jensen & Andrea Shea/WBUR

    Link Love: 1/15/16

    • Date: January 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Harvard's pigment collection. [via Collossal]Also with gorgeous colors, a 700+ page Dutch book from 1692 documenting "every color in the spectrum." [via Open Culture] A new online exhibit examining what it's like to work in the U.S. on a H-1B visa from the Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center. [via Smithsonian Magazine] Later this year, scientists (including our own

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  3. Composite of 700 images from the Freer Ramayana.

    Link Love: 12/19/2014

    • Date: December 19, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On New Years Day 2015, the 44,000 works of art in the Smithsonian’s Freer | Sackler collection will be available online. [via WAMU] Dumpster diving! The National Museum of American History added a copy of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 game found in a landfill to their collection. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]The grand re-opening of

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  5. Screenshot of a short article about George earning her Ph.D. next to an image of George.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Luvenia A. George

    • Date: February 24, 2021
    • 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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  7. Van der Van der Reyden stands behind a conservator working on a document at a desk.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dianne van der Reyden

    • Date: March 17, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dianne van der Reyden was a paper conservator at the Smithsonian from 1981 to 2002. She was hired by the National Museum of American History in 1981 and was promoted to senior paper conservator and head of the paper conservation section before transferring to the Smithsonian’s Conservation Analytical Laboratory in 1984. There, van der Reyden was promoted to head of paper

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  9. A sketch by William Henry Holmes, Cozumel, Mexico, 1895.

    Sketching with William Henry Holmes

    • Date: December 8, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Celebrate the life and work of William Henry Holmes with coloring pages created from sketches in his field notes!

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  11. Portrait of woman smiling with graphic in blue with white text.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Dorothy Moss

    • Date: March 7, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator of painting & sculpture, Dr. Dorothy Moss, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, directs the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, and curates the museum’s first-ever performance art series, IDENTIFY. #Groundbreaker

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  13. Lego Paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History, 2014.

    In the Name of Science

    • Date: February 3, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: As some of you reading this know, we enjoy getting to know fascinating women in science throughout our collections and in the Smithsonian's history. We enjoy it so much that one of us decided we needed a set of LEGO women scientists. Over lunch, we assembled the the sets with some trepidation as it had been years since our previous LEGO adventures. We had fun playing and

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  15. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janet W. Solinger

    • Date: October 31, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Janet W. Solinger, Director of the Smithsonian Resident Associates Program, 1972-1992, helped expand the Smithsonian's continuing education program membership tenfold. In 1993, she served as Director of Special Projects, assisting with planning for the Smithsonian's 150th anniversary. #Groundbreaker

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  17. Kevin Spacey as President Francis J. Underwood (detail) by Jonathan Yeo / Oil on canvas, 2015 / Collection of the artist

    Link Love: 2/26/16

    • Date: February 26, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It happened. "President" Francis J. Underwood's portrait hangs at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and NPG's Director, Kim Sajet, appears on an upcoming episode of House of Cards. [via Variety]DC Public Library's Memory Lab has your digital back and can help you digitize your 3.5" floppies and MiniDV's. [via dcist]Everyone's up in arms over the Metropolitan Museum

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  19. Pink backpack, field notes notebooks, microphone, audio recorder, and guides on recording oral histories

    Link Love: 6/29/2018

    • Date: June 29, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The University of North Carolina at Chapel wants to make archiving more accessible with Archivist in a Backpack. [via Hyperallergic]The Field Book Project wrapped up May 31 with a contribution of 517,000 pages of field books to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Internet Archive! [via BHL Blog]Some lessons learned from archiving Lubalin's Radical 60's magazines. [via AIGA's

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  21. Grey/white partial stone piece with ancient Greek script

    Link Love: 7/13/2018

    • Date: July 13, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: An archaeological dig in the ancient city of Olympus has turned up a rare clay tablet with 13 verses of Homer's Odyssey likely from the 8th Century BC. [via BBC]Dancer Gesel Mason is creating a digital archive of black choreographers' work. [via NPR]Emmett Till's casket on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) may be

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  23. Photo of fallen leaf art, by Saki Kitazumi

    Link Love: 12/16/2016

    • Date: December 16, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Japanese are taking fall to a new level! [via Bored Panda]The 25 most instagrammed museums includes the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery. [via Hyperallergic] Ireland's National Web Archive in Ireland let the public choose 10 websites to preserve. [via Info Docket]There's a podcast for everyone, including research librarians...check out the episode on Global Web Preservation.

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