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      We've Got Mail?

      • Date: January 11, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Right after Thanksgiving, on a promotional tour stop for his post-presidential memoir, Decision Points, George W. Bush visited Palo Alto, California to chat with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to a CBS News report, Mr. Bush mentioned that while he has more than 600,000 Facebook "friends," and now uses a Blackberry and iPad, during his presidency, he didn’t make much

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    3. Portrait of Arthur Wilson Stelfox.

      Arthur Wilson Stelfox: Another Gift from the United Kingdom

      • Date: July 23, 2020
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: With a large personal collection of specimens, Arthur Wilson Stelfox took steps to ensure his work will go on for decades to come.

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    5. HummingBird Cam at the University of Arizona.

      Link Love: 8/14/2015

      • Date: August 14, 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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    7. Who Wore it Best - Cyclist Couture: Lyonel Feininger vs. Elihu Vedder, Courtesy of the Archives of American Art.

      Link Love: 1/17/2014

      • Date: January 17, 2014
      • 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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    9. Black and white photograph of skeletons of man and horse.

      Link Love: 9/15/2017

      • Date: September 15, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • 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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    11. A cat and her kittens.

      Staff Check-In: Befriending Kittens, Carving Ducks, and Perfecting the Art of the Biscuit

      • Date: July 14, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Nearly four months into Smithsonian’s extended telework period, we thought it would be fun to share which skills and hobbies have been getting us through this overwhelming time.

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    13. Colorful white translucent salamander with 6 purplish tendrils protruding from its head.

      Link Love: 11/24/2017

      • Date: November 24, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A salamander, the axolotl, found in Mexico that once numbered in the 6000s/square kilometer is now down to 35. [via Scientific American]As we know, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has a lot of gorgeous images of natural specimen, in fact over 2 million of them, and it includes some from the Archives! [via Open Culture]Beatles fans, John Lennon's stolen diary was recovered by

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    15. 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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    17. Dried plant speciman.

      Found in the Archives: The Trail of a Naturalist Pirate

      • Date: September 19, 2017
      • Creator: Jessica Lavin
      • Description: Barbeque. Doughboy. Free trade. Pumple-nose. Smugglers. Cortan. Crockadore. Chopsticks. William Dampier, the 17th century explorer turned privateer/pirate, is credited with introducing these words, and more than 1,000 others, into the English vernacular. He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe three times, and created the first detailed record of Australian Flora

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    19. Carte Geologique De L'Europe.

      Link Love: 6/24/2016

      • Date: June 24, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Stanford David Rumsey Map Collection now has over 69,000 historic maps available online. [via KQED]Incredible color photos of Martin Luther King, some of which are part of our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via NPR]Great news for geneologists! The Digital Public Library of America & FamilySearch International have signed an agreement that will

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    21. Link Love: 04/16/2021

      • Date: April 16, 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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    23. Blog Post

      Link Love: 6/17/2011

      • Date: June 17, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: For those of us too young to have understood the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and to those who watched breathlessly as the it came down, this should interest you: an augmented reality app that projects a 3-D rendering of the Berlin Wall at its former site with the help of a smartphone. It was as big as a . . . The US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

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