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    A Hungerford Property History of Women’s Rights

    • Date: March 25, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: We’ve learned so much about the specific women of James Smithson’s family though the Hungerford Deed—but what can it tell us about women’s rights in the eighteenth century?

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    I Never Meta-data I Didn’t Like…

    • Date: June 10, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: So you know those thousand words a picture is worth? It’s true! Though my idea of what those thousand words should be might differ from yours and that’s why we’re going to talk about descriptive metadata, controlled vocabularies, and levels of access. Boy howdy, sounds like a wild ride, eh? When I was younger and infinitely more creative with how I spent my time I used to

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  5. 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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  7. sea slug with white sheep-like face with several magenta-tipped green arms on its back, resting on green sea plants

    Link Love: 1/26/2018

    • Date: January 26, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There's a new sea slug on the block, the leaf sheep, aka Shaun the Sheep. If you can't get enough sea slugs, we have several illustrations of these fantastical creatures! [via My Modern Met]Our Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery will display 6 outdoor, large-scale artworks from Burning Man, including a five-ton cast cement bust, “Maya’s Mind” paying homage to

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    Fame ... By Any Other Name

    • Date: March 20, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.

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    Link Love: 7/13/2018

    • Date: July 13, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: An archaeological dig in the ancient city of Olympus has turned up a rare clay tablet with 13 verses of Homer's Odyssey likely from the 8th Century BC. [via BBC]Dancer Gesel Mason is creating a digital archive of black choreographers' work. [via NPR]Emmett Till's casket on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) may be

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  13. Two men in robes and a woman in a hat stand in a group outdoors.

    The Hirshhorn Adventures: A Museum for the Mall

    • Date: December 11, 2018
    • Description: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has been located on the National Mall since 1974, but before that, Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn spent years considering which city or country the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden would call home.

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  15. Email Users Directory, 2015, Courtesy of David Bridge.

    The History of Email at the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 21, 2015
    • Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email

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  17. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2019

    • Date: December 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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  19. Aleš Hrdlička’s Measurement Chart of Harry Houdini

    Harry Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian II: Magic by Numbers

    • Date: February 2, 2012
    • Description: Details of a Smithsonian anthropometric measurement sheet made by physical anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička for escape artist Harry Houdini in 1926.

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  21. Drawing of Spencer Fullerton Baird's Pet Dog

    Smithsonian Open Access-iversary

    • Date: February 25, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Take a look at CC0 content we have posted in the year since the Smithsonian Open Access launch!

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  23. | ˚-˚ | Listen In - Transporting You Back to 1994 | ˚-˚ |

    • Date: November 19, 2020
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity, was one of the inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. The exhibition was a collaboration of fifteen Native American painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, and dancers. The exhibition featured sculpture, performance, poetry,

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