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  1. Tolkien Map of Middle Earth

    Link Love: 10/30/2015

    • Date: October 30, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Lord of the Rings fans! A newly-discovered map annotated by Tolkien. [via Open Culture]A last call for Archives Month to contribute your stories and memories of gardens and gardening to the Community Gardens digital archive. [via Smithsonian Gardens]Gorgeous fly-throughs of 17th Century London before The Great Fire from a talented group of students at De Montfort University. A

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    Documenting the Smithsonian’s Pandemic Response

    • Date: March 16, 2021
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  5. Dr. Slosson lecturing to prisoners at the Laramie Penitentiary.

    Open Minds Open Doors

    • Date: March 15, 2012
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The life and achievements of May (Mary) Gorslin Preston Slosson, one of the first women to receive a PhD.

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    The Mold . . .

    • Date: October 31, 2013
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: In which our heroine takes on the Creeping Horror of…The Mold. Spooky!

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  9. Colored sketch of a Discodoris boholiensis, which looks like a sea slug.

    Link Love: 10/30/2020

    • Date: October 30, 2020
    • 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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    See Here: 1/17/2010

    • Date: January 17, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="389" caption="Inauguration of President Lincoln from our front door, G Street, 1860, by Titian Ramsay Peale, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 16 Folder 20A, Negative Number: 75078. "][/caption]

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  13. A fence built by an unknown insect to protect its nest of eggs, by Troy Alexander, Tambopata Research Center.

    Link Love: 9/6/2013

    • Date: September 6, 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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  15. W. E. B. Du Bois data visualization

    Link Love: 7/8/2016

    • Date: July 8, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • 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. The top half of a yellowed parchment sheet is shown, covered densely with dark brown ink. A passage is highlighted in yellow, reading “She the said Henrietta Maria Walker by virtue and in pursuance of the Power and Authority reserved and given to her in and by the said recited Indenture of Release and Settlement of the thirteenth of July One thousand seven hundred and sixty nine and of all and every other Power and Powers Authority and Authorities to her belonging in her vested”.

    Enduring Mysteries of the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: December 3, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Much has been learned and uncovered about the Hungerford Deed—but what is still out there to learn? Dig in with us to explore a few of these unanswered questions!

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    We have a Facebook Page!

    • Date: October 15, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Hey folks, we've got some big news: the Archives now has an official Facebook Page. We're pretty excited about it, and we're looking forward to using the Page to keep you posted about upcoming events, new videos, interesting links, and newly digitized collections from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, the larger Smithsonian, and beyond. This is just one of a few changes in

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    Welcome to the Gallery of Horrors! (Enter if you dare!)

    • Date: October 31, 2012
    • Description: Conservators present horrible things that have happened to perfectly good archives, using images in a Flickr slideshow.

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  23. Five people standing on a stage, one of which is holding a framed award.

    A Champion for Libraries and Archives: Ching-hsien Wang

    • Date: May 26, 2022
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In their efforts to document the history of computing at the Smithsonian, volunteers are interviewing former staff to preserve their stories and experiences. Ching-hsien Wang was a force that helped libraries and archives make their collections accessible online and here are some early excerpts from our interview with her.

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