Description: In a post by Smithsonian Institution archivist Tammy Peters, she challenged us to help her identify a few of the women in the women scientists group we posted on the Flickr Commons. We received some great leads, including one from Flickr user Carolyn, aka 'vintage pix'. To correctly identify social scientist Bird Stein Gans (SI Archives had identified as Mrs. Howard S.
Description: Records identified for discard in general or specific records disposition schedules may be disposed of on-site without any further consultation with the Archives. Note that records bearing sensitive and/or personally identifiable information (e.g., Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, home addresses), should be destroyed by shredding. If it is
Description: With the running of the Boston Marathon this past week, be sure to check out Northeastern University's, "Our Marathon," a crowd-sourced, digital archive of pictures, videos, stories, and social media related to the Boston Marathon bombing. [via Ricc Ferrante, SIA]In the early days of my career as an archivist, I had the privilege of cataloging the papers of Grace Nicholson, a