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    1. Castle of Curiosities Postcard

      New History App: "Castle of Curiosities"

      • Date: January 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: We are pleased to announce a new mobile experience produced by the Archives, Castle of Curiosities. The Smithsonian's first building, the Castle, opened its doors in 1855. While the Norman architectural style evoked "learned university," it was bordered by fetid canals and rather isolated from the rest of Washington D.C. Check out an app about iconic stories in the history of

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      A Tongue-Twisting New Photo App

      • Date: December 23, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="331" caption="14th Street and Broadway, NYC (man with goggles), 1947, by Louis Faurer, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of anonymous donors, 2007.40.61 "][/caption] Earlier this month, Google introduced the Beta and Android-based version of the new and, for some, startling photo-based search feature they’ve calling Google Goggles.

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      Link Love: 5/6/2011

      • Date: May 6, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="192" caption="A shot of Leafsnap, a free tree field guide app from the Smithsonian, University of Maryland, and Columbia University."][/caption] Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution have tapped their experts to help create the world’s first plant identification mobile app using visual search:

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    7. The north front of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, during the early part of the 20th century.

      Spooks and Spirits: Stories of the Smithsonian

      • Date: October 31, 2015
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Tall tales and spooky ghost stories from Smithsonian history.

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    9. Stories to Be Told: An Internship at a Glance

      • Date: December 12, 2019
      • Description: A glimpse into a semester-long Institutional History internship at the Archives.

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    11. New Orleans Street Parade

      • Date: December 12, 2017
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Every year at its annual conference, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) hosts an event called Archival Screening Night (ASN). ASN is a chance for moving image archivists around the world to showcase films and videos from their collections, particularly items that have recently been preserved, restored, or remastered.This film depicts the Onward Brass Band

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    13. Where Are Archives Going? Impressions from SAA 2012

      • Date: August 30, 2012
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Impressions from the Society of American Archivists 2012 Annual Meeting on how archives are transforming themselves in the 21st century.

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    15. Opening reception for exhibit Sesame Street: The First 20 Years at National Museum of American History.

      Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? It's at the Smithsonian!

      • Date: June 1, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Take a trip back to Sesame Street and the Smithsonian's ten year exhibition about the show in 1979.

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      Digitized Photos and Back Stories

      • Date: October 22, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.

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      Keep the click! Stories Coming!

      • Date: April 9, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_450" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Yes we cancan have peace!"][/caption] As you can see from the exuberant photo above, we’ve been getting some great visitor contributions to our most recent click! photography changes everything call for entry in honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. We just published the first visitor

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    21. Smithsonian Crowdsourcing Since 1849!

      • Date: April 14, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    23. Image of heterosexual couple in period clothes. Man says

      Link Love: 4/6/2018

      • Date: April 6, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Art history memes are back and better than ever. [via Bored Panda]The fascinating story behind the Freer Sackler's Peacock Room. [via Atlas Obscura]A new app, Seek, for identifying plants and animals, the "Shazam of Nature." [via My Modern Met]Speaking of apps, you can now create 3D artwork in Augmented Reality with Artopia! [via Colossal]And we have an app for Archives

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