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    Another Smithsonian Gem

    • Date: November 19, 2019
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The Archives also preserves ecological research.

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  3. Original framing of the Archives’ bison images

    Bison Lost, Bison Found

    • Date: February 23, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Join us as we recount how the Archives’ crayon enlargements depicting American bison were traced back to their probable origin.

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  5. The indenture during the local humidification and flattening stage. The portion featuring the seals has become completely detached. Photo courtesy of William Bennett.

    Breach of Contract: Repairing the Walcott Indenture

    • Date: March 17, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See how we preserved a recent arrival to the Archives.

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  7. Portrait of Arthur Wilson Stelfox.

    Arthur Wilson Stelfox: Another Gift from the United Kingdom

    • Date: July 23, 2020
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: With a large personal collection of specimens, Arthur Wilson Stelfox took steps to ensure his work will go on for decades to come.

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  9. Black and white photograph of skeletons of man and horse.

    Link Love: 9/15/2017

    • Date: September 15, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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  11. Software showing emails with the word Announcement found in a search.

    Announcing the Latest Release of DArcMail

    • Date: December 9, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The Archives has released its latest version of its open-source email preservation software suite for anyone to use.

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  13. In a series of four negative images, men and women are pictured clapping and speaking.

    Spreading a Little Kindness Here at Smithsonian

    • Date: November 13, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Couldn’t we all use a little more warmth and kindness in the world? For World Kindness Day, we’re highlighting acts of kindness by Smithsonian employees that were featured in the staff newsletter, "The Torch."

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  15. Short GIF of zooming in on an otter image, next to a painting of a man.

    Some more IIIF-y Collections

    • Date: May 30, 2019
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives begins to further implement the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

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  17. One of the enlargements following treatment and mounting. Photo by Michael Barnes.

    Re-mounting the American Bison

    • Date: February 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the

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  19. Physicists Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Albert Einstein, co-chairmen of the League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, photographed by Watson Davis at a meeting of the committee in Geneva, Switzerland, July 1926. By Watson Davis. Accession 90-105: Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-5431.

    Science Service, Up Close: Lorentz and Einstein, Geneva, 1926

    • Date: October 1, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A previously unpublished photograph, from the Science Service "morgue" files in Accession 90-105, shows two Nobel laureate physicists, Anton Lorentz and Albert Einstein, in 1926.

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  21. JoGayle Howard at Dissecting Microscope, 1982.

    JoGayle Howard: Pioneer in Endangered Species Reproduction

    • Date: March 28, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Theriogenologist JoGayle Howard was a pioneer in the assisted reproduction of many endangered species.

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    Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers: Smithsonian Volunteers

    • Date: April 19, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12022,size=250,left]Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since its earliest years. The Institution has always been “dependent on the kindness of strangers.” Volunteers make tremendous contributions to Smithsonian operations every day in virtually every corner of the globe. The Smithsonian's paid staff of some 6,000 employees is

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