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    Don't Miss the Common Ground This Weekend!

    • Date: October 2, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: If you happen to walk by a museum or a library one evening this weekend, and there's a light on inside, or perhaps a flicker in the window, don't pass it by. There's a good chance that you stumbled on The Common Ground: a community curated meetup. The Common Ground gatherings are being hosted by museums and libraries around the world to celebrate The Commons on Flickr and the

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  3. Link Love: 1/25/2013

    • Date: January 25, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • 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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    Russell E. Train Africana Collection, 1663-1996, Smithsonian Institution Library, c. 1894-1939

    • Date: circa 1894-1919, undated
    • Creator: N'zau, Bula

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    Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City Library

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      Missouri Geological Survey, 1853-1854, catalogue of Prof. James Hall's library, n.d.

      • Date: 1853-1854 18530727 18540122
      • Creator: Meek, F. B (Fielding Bradford) 1817-1876

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      Link Love: 2/11/2011

      • Date: February 11, 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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    • Mary F. Miller’s handwriting on a document that lists all of the Vermont Mosses she collected in 1904.

      Mary Farnham Miller, A Lifelong Botanist

      • Date: August 17, 2021
      • Description: Learn more about botanist Mary Farnham Miller who held positions in the Sullivant Moss Society and the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany in the early twentieth century.

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    • Link Love: 9/25/2020

      • Date: September 25, 2020
      • 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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    • Gene Wilder

      Link Love: 9/2/2016

      • Date: September 2, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Archives pay tribute to Gene Wilder. [via University of Iowa Libraries]A behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Film Archives' efforts to save historic films...and the task is enormous. [via NY Times]The director who's making history on 9/24 with the opening of our National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lonnie Bunch. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Speaking of the

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      Field Book Project

      • Date: January 27, 2017
      • Description: Scientific and scholarly pursuit are hindered when primary sources are un-cataloged or accessible only by visiting cultural heritage institutions. The Field Book Project seeks to promote awareness of and access to thousands of scientific field notes in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and holdings at the National Museum of Natural History and the

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    • Portrait photograph of a woman wearing glasses and smiling toward the camera. She is wearing a striped top and a long necklace.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret S. Child

      • Date: May 25, 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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    • U.S. service members raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan, on Feb. 23, 1945.

      Link Love: 5/6/2016

      • Date: May 6, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Marines are investigating a possible case of mistaken identity in the iconic WWII Iwo Jima photo. [via NPR]The little known history behind Cinco de Mayo. [via Smithsonian Magazine]A short film on the Smithsonian's incredible whale skeleton collection. [via Hakai Magazine]The Prelinger Archives has published 6600 public domain films to the Internet Archive! [via Open Culture]A

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