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  1. B&W photoshopped image of creators heads on figures wearing graduation gowns and hats

    Link Love: 12/22/2017

    • Date: December 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The 2018 public domain graduates, including Aleister Crowley, René Magritte, Alice B. Toklas, Pierre Bonnard, and Winston Churchill! [via Public Domain Review]The history of dealing with lack of light in Scandanavia, and Happy Solstice! [via Mosaic Science]Aww, baby pictures of the internet from 1973! [via Open Culture]Close-ups of Jupiter from NASA look like impressionist

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    Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’

    • Date: December 23, 2014
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Software tools are helping the Smithsonian find its early websites from the 1990s on the web.

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    In Living Color

    • Date: January 12, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4178" align="alignleft" width="206" caption="Levi Hill often photographed color lithographic prints, mostly European images, when attempting to perfect his Hillotype color process. This print of a girl and small animal shows his achievement in capturing natural colors on a daguerreotype plate, circa 1851-56."][/caption] Excepting the 8% of males and

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  7. Visitors viewing transparent woman at the opening of the Hall of Health

    The Hall of Health and the Exhibits Modernization Program

    • Date: December 15, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: In the 1950s US National Museum staff revitalized exhibits across the Smithsonian, completely transforming the Arts & Industries Building.

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    It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening

    • Date: September 15, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.

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    Smithsonian's Photo Summit

    • Date: October 12, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Installation View of Smithsonian Photography Exhibition Art Section, by Thomas Smillie, c.

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  13. A woman wearing glasses and a denim jacket posed for a picture next to a computer screen. She has on hand on a computer mouse.

    Volunteer Appreciation: Marianne Green

    • Date: April 2, 2019
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, we would like to recognize Marianne Green, a volunteer in the Digital Services Division who digitizes and reviews documents, letters, and photographs requested by researchers, helping provide access to our collections.

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  15. 1963 March on Washington, 1963, by Jim Wallace, Smithsonian Institution Archives

    Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

    • Date: August 31, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)

    • Date: August 10, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!

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  19. Lerner and Hisrhhorn stand in a gallery space.

    An Audio Anniversary: Groundbreaking at the Hirshhorn

    • Date: January 12, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. Introducing the Science Media Group YouTube Playlist

    • Date: June 29, 2021
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.

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  23. Smithsonian Institution Archives - Entry door, 2014, by JA Pryse.

    The Starting Line

    • Date: June 19, 2014
    • Description: From April 7-18, 2014, JA Pryse was in residence with the Smithsonian Institution Archives fulfilling the Smithsonian Affiliations Visiting Professional Program fellowship awarded in January of this year. Over the information packed two weeks a number of innovative digital processes were gathered which are valuable to the Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division’s present

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