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  1. Illustration that takes up the whole page of Megarhinus septentrionalis.

    Dr. Evelyn G. Mitchell

    • Date: April 7, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Discover the life and career of an early public health heroine.

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  3. Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Note electric wiring is on the ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall. 

    The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II

    • Date: July 16, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.

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  5. Jacqueline Rush Lee's “Anthology,” image courtesy Brooklyn Public Library.

    Link Love: 1/1/2016

    • Date: January 1, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: New Year's edition!10 years of beautiful bookish art from the Brooklyn Public Library. [via Hyperallergic]You can now tour online 9 floors and 85 permanent galleries of the British Museum which includes 80,000 artifacts. [via Open Culture]More good open access news: American Jewish literary news and opinion works spanning 2nd half of the 20th century is now available freely

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  7. Harry Houdini, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, National Portrait Gallery,

    Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian

    • Date: December 26, 2011
    • Description: Harry Houdini visits Aleš Hrdlička at the National Museum to get measured and declines giving his remains to the Smithsonian.

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  9. Rhododendrons-Golden Gate Park-San Francisco, California.

    Link Love: 4/27/2012

    • Date: April 27, 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. Embracing the Crowd

    • Date: April 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: When I started working with museums in 2005, the concept of crowdsourcing was in its infancy. That year, James Surowiecki ‘s book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” was published and there were tiny experiments in crowdsourcing occurring in the cultural heritage sector. There were hesitations and objections about the whole concept within the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum)

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  13. Image of a machine with a large, bulky computer screen.

    Microfilm Reels in the 21st Century

    • Date: June 20, 2019
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief history on the invention and implementation of microfilm and our acquisition of a new, modern microfilm reader/scanner that enables us to provide digital access to and enhance the quality of SIA’s microfilm collections.

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  15. Four women work on a mosaic on some sort of base.

    Link Love: 05/28/2021

    • Date: May 28, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a biweekly 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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  17. Two sketches of a bird's head attached to a beige paper. The larger sketch is in color and the smaller sketch is in black and white.

    Link Love: 3/15/2019

    • Date: March 15, 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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  19. Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit worn during a 2 hour, 31 minute, and 40 second EVA (extra-vehicular activity) on the Moon in 1969. Image by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Image no. NASM2012-01664.

    Link Love: 7/24/2015

    • Date: July 24, 2015
    • 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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  21. Marble bust of a women.

    Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady of the National Collection of Fine Arts

    • Date: August 8, 2019
    • Description: Learn about Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady, globetrotter, and founding donor of the Smithsonian American Art Museum!

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  23. Data loss card mockup by Abbie Grotke; graphics from the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

    Link Love: 9/20/2013

    • Date: September 20, 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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