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  1. Link Love: 6/28/2013

    • Date: June 28, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    See Here: 8/9/2010

    • Date: August 9, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A crowd of visitors looking at the lunar sample on exhibit in the Rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building soon after it came to the National Air and Space Museum, 1970, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 398, Box 56, Folder 18, Negative Number:

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  5. View of collections shelving at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    How I Spent My Summer: Interning as a Virtual Web Archivist

    • Date: August 4, 2022
    • Description: Virtually join along with me on my web and social media archiving adventure using web archiving services, such as Archive-It.

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    Paper vs. Electronic: The Not-So-Final Battle

    • Date: April 10, 2014
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The question of which is better - paper or electronic records - doesn't have a simple answer.

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  9. Image of yellow pencils at different stages of sharpening on mechanical belt.

    Link Love: 1/19/2018

    • Date: January 19, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: These photos just make you want to write solely in pencil. [story on one of America's last pencil factory via NY Times]It's hard to believe the Flickr Commons, a space in Flickr for archival photo collections, is 10 years old. [via Library of Congress]Scientists, including a fellow from our National Museum of Natural History, Ligiane Moras, have identified two new species of

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  11. Tweet from @jacobharris

    Hunting for Elephants in Archives

    • Date: February 17, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I was intrigued to receive a tweet from a digital colleague over at the NY Times pertaining to a family story that could very well be solved at the Archives. I’m continuously surprised at the variety of papers we hold here, but by now, I shouldn’t be given how far-reaching and varied the scope of the Smithsonian has been through history. Back to the story. THE elephant that

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  13. View from Independence Avenue of Smithsonian Buildings, 1969

    Sneak Peek 1/29/2018

    • Date: January 29, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: View from Independence Avenue of Air and Space Building, Rocket Row, Arts and Industries Building, and Castle, November 17, 1969, by Richard Farrar, SIA Acc. 11-009, 77-2273.

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  15. Tweet sent by Jacob Harris, 11/12/2014.

    How Uncle Maurice Saved the Smithsonian Elephant

    • Date: January 6, 2015
    • Description: There's no doubt that Washington, D.C. is a great place to raise kids. And one of the primary reasons why is the wide array of Smithsonian museums that are only a subway ride away. It's no wonder that regular visits to the National Mall have been an important part of our family's culture and history since the early 1970's. And part of that history has been the story of "how

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  17. Miniature version of Hopper's Nighthawks with pencils and other office supplies.

    Link Love: 8/11/2017

    • Date: August 11, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, recreated in miniature with office supplies. [via Colossal]A new project, Great 78, seeks to preserve 78rpm records. [via Internet Archive]Nice! NYPL card holders can now stream movies from the Criterion Collection. [via Gothamist] A floating museum makes its debut this month in Chicago! [via Timeout]Sound maps of protest from the last 26 years.

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    Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude

    • Date: December 31, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of

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  21. Poster with a black background and astronaut.

    Design + Archives: Posters

    • Date: February 11, 2020
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Posters at the Smithsonian display a wide range of exhibitions and programs, each with a design that is visually intriguing and purposeful in conveying information.

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  23. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

    Thank you, Volunteers!

    • Date: April 23, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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