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      The Search Server is Dead, Long Live the Search Server.

      • Date: April 30, 2019
      • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
      • Description: The Archives says goodbye to one search server while welcoming in a new one.

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      Some Archives Technologist Career Advice

      • Date: May 24, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: This is the latest post in our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professionals. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Check out our previous posts, and don’t be afraid to let us know who you would like to hear from next!The Archives has

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      Transparency in the Archives: From Our Earliest Days

      • Date: August 16, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: From the point in 1838 when the United States Congress accepted James Smithson’s bequest, it was recognized as a cultural resource, a public trust held by the federal government. Smithson had stipulated that the funds be used for an “establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Being a cultural resource set aside for public use, the government bore the

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      Link Love: 12/17/2010

      • Date: December 17, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="The first flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with Orville Wright at the controls of the Wright Flyer, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 25 Folder 41, Negative Number: 2002-12169."][/caption] On this day in 1903 the Wright Brothers

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      Meet Sarah Stierch: The Archives’ Wikipedian in Residence

      • Date: March 28, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives hosts Sarah Stierch as Wikipedian-in-Residence for Spring 2012.

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      MayDay as Earth Day

      • Date: April 30, 2020
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: As I write this crossover Preservation Week/MayDay post so close to Earth Day 2020 (the fiftieth anniversary), stunning news continues to break across the globe due to the coronavirus. Shining through the fog of worry, there have been surprising gains in a period of forced inactivity due to reduced emissions, such as record-breaking solar energy capture in Germany, and cleaner

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      Preserving “The World Is Yours”

      • Date: January 23, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Here is a look into how the mixed media project of preserving The World Is Yours got its start.

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      Toasting to the Museum that Never Was

      • Date: January 14, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: A brief look at the Smithsonian’s almost acquisition of Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate

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      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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      Color Our Collections 2021

      • Date: February 4, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Stuck inside and looking for a fun activity? Color the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives collections!

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      A Taste For Adventure

      • Date: May 3, 2018
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: A couple of months ago, Tony Cohn, host of Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast, contacted the Archives about an upcoming episode they were preparing. Sidedoor highlights the unseen or little-known stories about collections at the Smithsonian. The Archives’ work was recently front-and-center of an episode of The Sidedoor Podcast about America’s first food spy.

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    23. A gray line drawing on a white field depicts four views of a box: at top left, a view from above showing the document and a support tube in the lower tray of the box; at bottom left, a cross-section view of the same; at top right, a cross-section view of the box lid, showing a pressure plate occupying the lower two-thirds of the lid; at bottom right, a view from below of the same, looking up into the lid and showing an area removed from the pressure plate to avoid damaging the wax seal.

      Happy birthday, Hungerford Deed!

      • Date: July 28, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Join us for a celebration of the Hungerford Deed on its 233rd birthday.

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