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    Link Love: 1/7/2011

    • Date: January 7, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Intersection of Adelaide and Creek Streets, Brisbane 1893 flood, State Library of Queensland - Negative number: 61449, Courtesy Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] A huge donation and lots of new photos to browse: the State Library of Queensland donates 50,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons [via Resource Shelf]. Thoughts on why

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    Wartime in Washington—Mary Henry on the First Manassas

    • Date: July 21, 2011
    • Description: Throughout the next months, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will feature posts related to the Smithsonian and the Civil War in honor of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. On July 21, 1861, the First Battle of Manassas raged just thirty miles southwest of Washington DC and the Smithsonian Institution Building that housed Secretary Joseph Henry and his family.

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  5. GIF of someone navigating the introduction page of the web exhibition. It includes a graphic of photographs of people in black-and-white and a portrait painting of James Smithsonian in color.

    Introducing Smithson to Smithsonian

    • Date: August 10, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: As the Smithsonian geared up to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Libraries and Archives decided to revisit the online exhibition From Smithsonian to Smithsonian, created a quarter of a century ago. Today, on the Smithsonian’s birthday, we are pleased to celebrate the launch of a new, refreshed and greatly expanded web exhibition, Smithson to Smithsonian.

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    See Here: 6/28/2010

    • Date: June 28, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption=""Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland,

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  9. A yellow-tinted catalog page showing two women in front of painted backgrounds, one of a nature scene, one of a shipdeck with a ship on water in the background.

    Link Love: 7/20/2018

    • Date: July 20, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Old school filters. [via Smithsonian Libraries]Progress is being made to find the burned remnants of the last slave ship to reach U.S. soil. [via National Geographic]Meet the Library of Congress reference librarian who helps people research their African American genealogy. [via LOC]You can help transcribe the papers of Civil Rights figure, Julian Bond, with the University of

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  11. Scared to Death?: The Curious Case of a Pine Mouse

    • Date: August 14, 2012
    • Description: “Can a Rattlesnake hypnotize a Pine Mouse to death”? Questions from a typical day of treatment for a Pre-Program Paper Conservation Intern.

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  13. An Airborne Adventure: Photographing a Tuskegee Airmen Plane

    • Date: January 19, 2012
    • Description: Learn about the Smithsonian Institution Archive photographer, Michael Barnes, and his experience photographing Tuskegee Airmen and one of their original training planes.

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  15. A close-up view of a parchment sheet, covered closely with black ink writing. A passage is highlighted in yellow, “Estate at Studley and Calne and other Places in the County of Wilts[hire].”

    Tracing Inheritance in the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: September 24, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: The Hungerford Deed split an inherited estate between two sisters—but what do we know about those properties? We’ve dug deep into one of them here.

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  17. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

    Spotlight: George Tsaroff

    • Date: September 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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    Link Love: 4/28/2017

    • Date: April 28, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Very early "big data" tracking mortality rates in 17th-century London. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Mellon Foundation has funded an $887,000 project to develop community-driven archives! [via Info Docket]See what questions archivists across the country answered yesterday for #AskAnArchivist. [via SAA]What album would you be....if you could preserve yourself in a vinyl record.

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    Link Love: 2/16/2018

    • Date: February 16, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The University of Iowa Libraries released an avant-garde archive online: Digital Dada Library and the Fluxus Digital Collection. [via University of Iowa]The Hirshhorn's new indoor café has 700-year old tree roots for tables, excellent coffee, and a planned outdoor gelato stand opening this summer! [via Washingtonian]Romeo, who may be the last remaining Sehuencas water frog,

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  23. Telephone Operators, C.1914-1917, by Harris & Ewing, glass negative, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-hec-04117.

    April Fool’s, Mr. Lyon!

    • Date: March 31, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: The National Zoo gets flooded with phone calls in a 1919 April Fool’s prank.

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