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    May Day Motto: Be Prepared

    • Date: May 2, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: In honor of the Heritage Preservation organization’s annual MayDay initiative to protect cultural heritage from disasters, the Archives will be highlighting how we deal with emergencies and how you can prepare yourself in a series of blog posts. [caption id="attachment_12763" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="This image is quite dark for a reason—in an emergency

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  3. This clay facial reconstruction of Kennewick Man was carefully sculpted around the morphological features of his skull, and lends a deeper understanding of what he may have looked like nearly 9,000 years ago. By Brittney Tatchell, August 25, 2014, Smithsonian Institution.

    Link Love: 8/29/2014

    • Date: August 29, 2014
    • 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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  5. Auto polo (LOC), by Bain News Service, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915.

    Link Love: 3/9/2012

    • Date: March 9, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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  7. Pink backpack, field notes notebooks, microphone, audio recorder, and guides on recording oral histories

    Link Love: 6/29/2018

    • Date: June 29, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The University of North Carolina at Chapel wants to make archiving more accessible with Archivist in a Backpack. [via Hyperallergic]The Field Book Project wrapped up May 31 with a contribution of 517,000 pages of field books to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Internet Archive! [via BHL Blog]Some lessons learned from archiving Lubalin's Radical 60's magazines. [via AIGA's

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  9. A screenshot of a data table used for recording the condition of discs. The left side contains label information for the discs and the upper right side lists different types of damages.

    Burn This Disc: Treating Fire-Affected Optical Discs, Part I

    • Date: September 2, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This is part one of three in a series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. This month, we’ll introduce the project.

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  11. A tray of bumble bees from the National Museum of Natural History’s bee collection awaits digitization. The Smithsonian Transcription Center will allow virtual volunteers to help transcribe important data found on each specimen’s tag. This data will help scientists studying declining bee populations in North America. By John Gibbons, 2014, Smithsonian Institution.

    Link Love: 8/15/2014

    • Date: August 15, 2014
    • 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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  13. This image is found in Record Unit 74 - National Zoological Park, Records, 1887-1966 - Box 287, Smithsonian Institution Archives. The photograph was taken by Harris-Ewing photography services. The Library of Congress contains the Harris-Ewing Collection, but neither the librarians nor I have been able to find the original among the collection’s 50,000 entries.

    Sounding the Old Wolf-Cry

    • Date: November 14, 2013
    • Description: While researching my last blog post on the "mad wolf" who escaped from the National Zoo, I came across an old black-and-white photograph in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that caught my eye. The image is grainy, but appears to show a man and a wolf, separated by a chain-link fence, holding each other's rapt attention while the man operates some sort of recorder. Unable

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  15. Earth by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

    Link Love: 12/25/2015

    • Date: December 25, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Keep it in perspective: a new view of earth by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. [via Info Docket]A digital re-creation of the 1796 Shakespeare Gallery from the University of Texas at Austin's online project, What Jane Saw. [via Hyperallergic]For locals, a little bit of history on the DC street names...and why there's no J street. [via Ghosts of DC]The evolution of toy

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  17. Link Love: 11/30/2018

    • Date: November 30, 2018
    • 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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    It’s the Start of the 2011 Archives Month Blogathon

    • Date: October 3, 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. Aerial View of U.S. Capitol, c. 1917 - 1934, Boston Public Library, Image ID 08_06_008683.

    Link Love: 1/8/16

    • Date: January 8, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Aerial images of Washington D.C. from the Boston Public LIbrary. [via Ghosts of DC]Digital maps from University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab and Stamen Design showing social, political, and economic movements in America. [via Smithsonian Magazine]How do you move over 800 space and aviation models? [via Air Space Blog]Perhaps forecasting a new fashion trend, "Design a

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    Archives Month Blogathon Starts Today

    • Date: October 1, 2010
    • 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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