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.
Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="215" caption="Belle Grove, rear, White Castle vic., Iberville Parish, Louisiana, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1938, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print."][/caption] Oooo—a pretty resource I’ve not come across before. The Carnegie Survey of the Architecture
Description: Thank you, NASA! 3 million new images of earth. [via PetaPixel]The Serpukhov’s Museum of History and Art has hired a resident cat. No joke. [via hyperallergic]A new book from the Smithsonian's own Darrin Lunde about the naturalist side of Teddy Roosevelt. [via Daily Beast]The Robert Gessner film archives related to his book, "Some of my Best Friends Are Jews." [via United
Description: Explore our interns’ new techniques for preservation of maps at NMNH: a map transportation tool, a rehousing plan, and training for volunteers.
Description: The Theodore Roosevelt Papers are now digitized and available online through the Library of Congress Digital Collections. Don't try browsing all at once—there are over 450,000 images! [via Library of Congress][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9575,size=300,center]With the help of ground-penetrating radar, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research has discovered a thousand-year-old
Description: Tracing the history of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, created in 1966 to raise funds to support the Institution, especially its educational programs.
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8947,size=180,right]Record Unit 60, Meteorological Project, Records, 1849–1875 Most of these records are requests for weather data, or requests from researchers interested in the correspondence of an observer who worked on Secretary Joseph Henry’s Smithsonian Meteorological Project.Record Unit 70, Exposition Records of the Smithsonian Institution and
Description: Nixon Presidential Library and Museum releases 66,000 more documents from his White House days. [via InfoDocket]The Smithsonian's first blog, Eye Level, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum just celebrated its 10th year! [via Eye Level]Not many people know why the Smithsonian was founded, and the extraordinary set of circumstances that had to take place for it to happen.
Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_13396,size=150,left]Much of the Smithsonian's early natural history collections came from Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The fourth Annual Report (1850) discusses several Latin American expeditions, in particular the exploration of islands near Nicaragua by Ephraim G. Squier, who served as U.S. charge d'affaires
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