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    Link Love: 1/16/2015

    • Date: January 16, 2015
    • 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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  3. Google Analytics Map Showing Traffic to the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Bl

    Here's Looking at You

    • Date: June 25, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A peek into our metrics program at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  5. Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern, by Robert Howlett, 1857, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    Link Love: 5/23/2014

    • Date: May 23, 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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  7. Devra Kleiman and others taking measurements in Brazil of a Golden Lion Tamarin.

    Archives: It’s not just paper, it’s people

    • Date: August 29, 2011
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8807,size=250,left] In the institutional archivists' world, there is constant discussion about what we save and why we save it. While there are many reasons why this is such a pointed concern, one of the main factors institutions consider when deciding what to collect is the relevance of a collection's contents to the institution's mission.

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  9. Snowflake Study, 1890, by Wilson A. Bentley, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    The Smithsonian's Top 6 Archives Myths

    • Date: October 26, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The top five myths about the archives at the Smithsonian Institution.

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  11. Black and white portrait of a man.

    Robert Kennicott and the Western Union Telegraph Expedition

    • Date: September 21, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14715,size=250,left] By now you have probably heard of Robert Kennicott, either because of his involvement with the Megatherium Club, or because of the article and blog post on his death that was published last year. I, however, tend to associate him with the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, a collecting mission to Alaska that proved to be his last.

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  13. Buddha draped in robes

    17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)

    • Date: August 10, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!

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  15. Org chart, New York and Erie Railroad, 1855. Courtesy of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

    Link Love: 3/21/2014

    • Date: March 21, 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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  17. 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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    Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford

    • Date: March 11, 2014
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.

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  21. Blog Post

    Holiday Memories

    • Date: November 16, 2010
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="234" caption="Mary Henry, October 20, 1882, by Unidentified photographer, Card Photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, RU 95, Box 12, Folder 5, Negative Number: 82-3258. "][/caption] As we enter into the holiday season, the Smithsonian Institution Archive’s blog will be exploring memories: what they mean, how to capture them, and

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  23. From the Walt Whitman Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

    Link Love: 2/17/2012

    • Date: February 17, 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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