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      Link Love: 4/28/2017

      • Date: April 28, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Very early "big data" tracking mortality rates in 17th-century London. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Mellon Foundation has funded an $887,000 project to develop community-driven archives! [via Info Docket]See what questions archivists across the country answered yesterday for #AskAnArchivist. [via SAA]What album would you be....if you could preserve yourself in a vinyl record.

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    3. Circular color chart

      Link Love: 5/5/2017

      • Date: May 5, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A new understanding of the canine lineage brought to you by DNA and infographics. [via NBC News]A new open source platform was funded through IMLS for making historic newspapers accessible online. [via J. Willard Marriott Library]In the wake of Brexit, a new Migration Museum opened in London. [via artnet]You can travel the world with Smithsonian's National Anthroplogical

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      Link Love: 1/7/2011

      • Date: January 7, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Intersection of Adelaide and Creek Streets, Brisbane 1893 flood, State Library of Queensland - Negative number: 61449, Courtesy Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] A huge donation and lots of new photos to browse: the State Library of Queensland donates 50,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons [via Resource Shelf]. Thoughts on why

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    7. Screenshot from the Archives' DArcMail suite.

      Email Management Remains Important

      • Date: January 2, 2020
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Archives and libraries explore various tools to preserve and share email collections.

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    9. Llyn Padarn frozen, by Geoff Charles (1909-2002), February 7, 1963.

      Link Love: 1/20/2012

      • Date: January 20, 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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    11. Storefront at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm 1957, by Gunnar Ekelund, Photo Nr: 2017

      Link Love: 10/14/2011

      • Date: October 14, 2011
      • 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. urban street scape with barber shop, candy shop, and African Americans walking the street

      Link Love: 5/11/2018

      • Date: May 11, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum looks at the history of rapid change in Washington D.C., the ensuing inequality, and neighborhood activism with A Right to the City. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Check out the newly released 2018 National Design Award winners from the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt. [via Architect Magazine]There may be a developing love story at our

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    15. Email Users Directory, 2015, Courtesy of David Bridge.

      The History of Email at the Smithsonian

      • Date: July 21, 2015
      • Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email

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    17. Lerner and Hisrhhorn stand in a gallery space.

      An Audio Anniversary: Groundbreaking at the Hirshhorn

      • Date: January 12, 2011
      • 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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    19. Smithsonian Gardens' Cindy Brown in front of the gardenias at the Enid A. Haupt Garden.

      Link Love: 6/16/2017

      • Date: June 16, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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    21. A Window into the Grand Tour: Traveling in the Style of James Smithson

      • Date: December 4, 2012
      • Description: A new exhibition offers a chance to explore the world of Grand Tour travel in the late eighteenth century, similar to that experienced by the Smithsonian’s own founding donor, James Smithson.

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      Link Love: 3/4/2011

      • Date: March 4, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="Uncle Beazley being unloaded at the Smithsonian’s Office of Exhibits Central model shop, February 2011, Courtesy of Office of Exhibits Central blog."][/caption] Even dinosaurs need their baths… The Office of Exhibits Central gives a behind-the-scenes peek into the dino maintenance of Uncle Beazley—the Smithsonian’s

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