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  1. Various food dishes laid out on a table. Paper leaves and decorations hang on the wall. A digitally-created banner at the top of the image reads:

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    • Date: November 22, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: From our table to yours, Happy Thanksgiving from the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Google Halts an Archiving Project

    • Date: June 8, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Newspapers, by Quinn Cowper, Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND 2.0."][/caption] On May 20th, a flurry of reports took note of Google’s decisions to halt its ambitious efforts to digitize the contents of newspaper archives and make them online and at no cost.

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    A New Look at Home Movies

    • Date: May 31, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="I have no hours in the day to watch TV/games. Don't let life go by!!, by National Media Museum, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] From 2002-2005, a unique archive of video tapes was compiled by the Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) at UCLA, with the goal of studying a relatively new social

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    Happy Valentine's: Cards from the Archives

    • Date: February 9, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Not everyone loves Valentine’s Day, but most everyone loves sweet, cuddly, zoo animals. To honor the day of chocolate and flowers next week, we invite you to send one of these guys to the one(s) you love. If you come up with fun captions, we’d love to hear from you in the comments. Print and Send Print out one of these templates and fold it twice (once horizontally, once

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    OUCH: Scary Pictures of Broad Daylight

    • Date: April 30, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Waikiki, No.

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  11. Link Love: 1/10/2020

    • Date: January 10, 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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  13. A Victorian Re-touch, courtesy PetaPixel.

    Link Love: 8/27/2015

    • Date: August 28, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Photshopping, Victorian-style. [via PetaPixel]A suitable home for an automotive archive; the General Motors historic carriage factory, Durant-Dort Factory One. [via Today's Motor Vehicles]New to the official Oxford Dictionary lexicon; manspreading, MacGyver, and Awesomesauce. [via InfoDocket]A massive treasure-trove of historic maps is now mobile! [via InfoDocket]50 years of

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  15. Black and white image of woman smiling.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Portia James

    • Date: August 15, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Senior Curator and Historian Portia James (1953-2015) pioneered a community-based approach at the Anacostia Community Museum and led the exhibitions, publications and collections programs. She researched African American material culture. #Groundbreaker

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  17. Objects Conservator Catharine Hawks (center), National Museum of Natural History, specializes in the preservation of natural history specimen and lectures widely on hazards related to collections. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Catharine Hawks

    • Date: March 2, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Objects Conservator Catharine Hawks (center), National Museum of Natural History, specializes in the preservation of natural history specimen and lectures widely on hazards related to collections. #Groundbreaker

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  19. Medical technologist Jane Swanson was awarded the Ivor Dunsford Memorial Award for her discoveries of several antigens (most notably the rare Pk antigen) and blood groups.

    Women In Science Wednesday: Jane Swanson

    • Date: October 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly feature highlighting groundbreaking women in science.

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  21. Linda Welzenbach, Meteorite Collection Manager at the National Museum of Natural History, distributes meteorite samples to scientists around the world and thinks of meteorites as

    Women in Science Wednesday: Linda Welzenbach

    • Date: December 17, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Linda Welzenbach, Meteorite Collection Manager at the National Museum of Natural History, distributes meteorite samples to scientists around the world and thinks of meteorites as "time capsules." #Groundbreaker

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  23. Physiology professor Rosalind Wulzen (b. 1886) discovered a factor (the

    Women In Science Wednesday: Rosalind Wulzen

    • Date: October 1, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly feature highlighting groundbreaking women in science.

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