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      "If you feed them, they will come."

      • Date: May 23, 2013
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: Operation Moonwatch created an international network of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteer sky-watchers of both genders and from every walk-of-life. These citizen-scientists joined professional astronomers to track and report on satellites travelling through the night sky. Food and location played a role in keeping volunteers engaged with Operation Moonwatch.

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    3. Mug shot of Larry Craig, U.S. Senator (R-Idaho), following his arrest on June 11

      Love Thy Neighbor's Mug Shot

      • Date: September 17, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    5. Spencer and Mary Baird sit in chairs and Lucy Baird stands behind her father.

      Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter

      • Date: March 5, 2020
      • Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was

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    7. Link Love: 5/29/2020

      • Date: May 29, 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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      Archiving a Dream

      • Date: December 7, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Traditionally, when families gather for end-of-the-year holiday events, reminiscences are shared, new photos and videos get made, and/or old snapshots, home movies, and memories resurface. And while most family narratives are revisited in intimate settings, around kitchen tables or in living rooms, a handful may reach broader audiences, through one set of circumstances or

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    11. Link Love: 01/29/2021

      • Date: January 29, 2021
      • 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 close-up view of a parchment sheet, covered closely with black ink writing. A passage is highlighted in yellow, “Estate at Studley and Calne and other Places in the County of Wilts[hire].”

      Tracing Inheritance in the Hungerford Deed

      • Date: September 24, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: The Hungerford Deed split an inherited estate between two sisters—but what do we know about those properties? We’ve dug deep into one of them here.

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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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    17. -ray of the skull of Science Service astronomy editor James Stokley

      Science Service, Up Close: Covering Eclipses, Near and Far

      • Date: August 15, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations.

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      I Never Meta-data I Didn’t Like…

      • Date: June 10, 2010
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: So you know those thousand words a picture is worth? It’s true! Though my idea of what those thousand words should be might differ from yours and that’s why we’re going to talk about descriptive metadata, controlled vocabularies, and levels of access. Boy howdy, sounds like a wild ride, eh? When I was younger and infinitely more creative with how I spent my time I used to

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      Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse

      • Date: January 24, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.

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    23. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

      Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

      • Date: December 10, 2019
      • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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