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  1. Drawing of reindeer sled pulling Swedes with skiers alongside.

    Link Love: 12/23/2016

    • Date: December 23, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: From the look of this 16th Century book, Swedes sure knew how to deal with winter. [via Smithsonian Libraries]A rediscovered Christmas drinking song! [via Fine Books & Collections]Just in time for the solstice, ancient Japan's 72 seasons in a calendar app! [via Hyperallergic]The historic precursor to Amazon's delivery drones (a curator from our National Postal Museum weighs

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    How Hot Was It At Bull Run?

    • Date: July 20, 2011
    • 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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    The Camera Loved Einstein

    • Date: July 9, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Portrait of Albert Einstein and Others (1879-1955), Physicist, by unidentified photographer, 1931, Smithsonian Institution Libraries."][/caption] This post is second in a series that highlights some of our most popular photos on the Flickr Commons. This photo of Einstein pictured with a group of intellectuals is one of

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  7. Ironworkers at 1976 Festival of American Folklife.

    Summertime on the Mall - Smithsonian Folklife Festival

    • Date: June 13, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Come out to the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrating Hungarian culture, endangered languages, and African American style.

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    Seeing another world, this one behind the Iron Curtain…

    • Date: May 26, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="Completed SA-2 missile site showing characteristic Star of David pattern, National Security Archive, The George Washington University"][/caption] Strangely beautiful surveillance photographs shot from an American U-2 spy plane triggered a terrifying nuclear standoff, The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In a new click!

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  11. Link Love: 5/31/2019

    • Date: May 31, 2019
    • 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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  13. Color print of the Aurora Borealis.

    Link Love: 10/5/2018

    • Date: October 5, 2018
    • 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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    Who Are You?

    • Date: March 30, 2009
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_311" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Former SIA Collections Storage, Smithsonian Institution Archives"][/caption] In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the fourth in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of

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    See Here: 11/9/2010

    • Date: November 9, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Laborers can be seen working on the laying of a new floor of marble and terrazzo, according to the Watkins system, in one of the Northeast Range of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, On the upper half of the wall models of boats can be seen, Canoes can also be seen hanging from the

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    See Here: 3/7/2011

    • Date: March 7, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Anthropology Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, The front exhibit case, which was part of the Polynesian ethnology exhibit, shows a life group of indigenous people of the Samoan Indian group with native artifacts, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic

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  21. Off-white page with black type written text and abstract black print

    Link Love: 2/16/2018

    • Date: February 16, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The University of Iowa Libraries released an avant-garde archive online: Digital Dada Library and the Fluxus Digital Collection. [via University of Iowa]The Hirshhorn's new indoor café has 700-year old tree roots for tables, excellent coffee, and a planned outdoor gelato stand opening this summer! [via Washingtonian]Romeo, who may be the last remaining Sehuencas water frog,

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    Link Love: 8/20/2010

    • Date: August 20, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="South Beach, Miami, Florida, 2004, Courtesy of the TypArchive: www.typarchive.com."] [/caption] A visual archive of hand-painted and cool old signage [via @leetranlam]. Check out the Smithsonian Libraries’ extensive links to online exhibitions created by libraries and archives. Catch the spirit! The Gospel Music History

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