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  1. Adopt-a-Book save-the-date promo graphic. The background is a painting of purple flowers. The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives logo is on the left. The right includes the text: Save the dates Adopt-a-Book Salons.

    Welcome to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book Program

    • Date: March 10, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: We all have the opportunity to support the Smithsonian—come see how the Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book program offers a chance to do so.

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  3. An attendee at “Don’t Rock the Cradle” examines magnetic strapping in the marketplace. Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015.

    Preserve It While You Use It: Collections Care in Action

    • Date: April 28, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.

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    The National Park that Never Was

    • Date: August 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: This month marks the centennial of the National Park Service—learn about one that was planned but never built.

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  7. Letter from Mabel Truss Metcalf to Marguerite Henrich Kellogg, October 14, 1923, page 1.

    A Glimpse of 1920s China from the Remington Kellogg Papers

    • Date: February 19, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: With Chinese New Year upon us, the beautiful stationery these letters are written on gives a glimpse into life for academic expatriates in southern China in the 1920s.

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  9. Langley with His Aerodrome.

    Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley

    • Date: December 15, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.

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    Conserving Harper’s Three-for-One Field Book

    • Date: August 24, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Though a large part of our collections are flat—that is, they are unbound materials as opposed to bound, three-dimensional objects—a significant group of our holdings do live in bindings and book structures (some of my previous blog contributions have dealt with books, but none with as great a degree of intervention). Treating a field book became more complicated—and more

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  13. A man in a gray hooded sweatshirt bends over a textile-mounted piece of art on paper; he is pressing a heated metal spatula against a piece of white insulating paper to soften heat-sensitive paper as a mending technique. The art on paper is supported on a clear acrylic board suspended between two white tables.

    Some Conservator Career Advice

    • Date: July 11, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: So you want to be a conservator? In this continuation of our series on career advice, one of our conservators shares some advice for those looking to explore the professional field of cultural heritage conservation.

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  15. View from the grounds of a cathedral. A few people wander around the lawn outside of the structure.

    Field Books Go to Oxford!

    • Date: October 23, 2018
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See how our conservation staff are sharing treatment ideas with colleagues across the world.

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  17. The top portion of a parchment membrane with a wavy top edge is shown; dark, heavy, Gothic-style lettering appears at the top along with flourishes, and is also scattered throughout the text, as are words in forward-slanting italic writing.

    Celebrating Handwriting with the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: January 21, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Handwriting is a personal passion of mine, despite it having become something of a lost art. Today, when most people think of handwriting at all, it is as a greatly individual method of writing recognizable characters, regardless of the writing system, but in the past, when you could make a living as a scribe, there were highly standardized styles.

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  19. A group of men and women surround a table in a glass-walled room, listening to a man in a blue shirt describe a parchment document visible on the table in front of him.

    A Tale of Three Contracts

    • Date: September 5, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: An exciting new accession sheds light on James Smithson’s family history and fortune.

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