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    Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: September 21, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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  3. Introducing the Science Media Group YouTube Playlist

    • Date: June 29, 2021
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.

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  5. Alt: Nora shows a crowd of people small objects on display on a table.

    What Our Experts Want You to Know About Preservation

    • Date: April 29, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: For Preservation Week, our team answered our burning, often ignorant questions about their biggest challenges, what they consider when treating objects, and beyond.

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  7. Bowerbirds design and build elaborate nests to attract mates.

    Link Love: 3/7/2014

    • Date: March 7, 2014
    • 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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  9. To Post-it or Not to Post-it

    • Date: September 5, 2013
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: Although fun and easy to use, post-it notes are often harmful to archival records, as seen with the conservation of Cordelia Rose’s recently acquired scroll.

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  11. Two pages from the 1999 bibliography.

    Capturing Change

    • Date: October 22, 2019
    • Description: Forests change over time, and so do the approaches of organizations that seek to protect them.

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  13. The top portion of a parchment membrane with a wavy top edge is shown; dark, heavy, Gothic-style lettering appears at the top along with flourishes, and is also scattered throughout the text, as are words in forward-slanting italic writing.

    Celebrating Handwriting with the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: January 21, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Handwriting is a personal passion of mine, despite it having become something of a lost art. Today, when most people think of handwriting at all, it is as a greatly individual method of writing recognizable characters, regardless of the writing system, but in the past, when you could make a living as a scribe, there were highly standardized styles.

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    Lisa Stevens: The Inspiring Career of the “Panda Lady”

    • Date: September 1, 2020
    • Description: Known lovingly by the public as the “Panda Lady,” Lisa Stevens cultivated a rich thirty-year career at the National Zoological Park as the senior curator of mammals.

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  17. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

    Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

    • Date: April 27, 2017
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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  19. No. 40. Crew member preparing plant specimens for Smithsonian, off the east coast of Greenland, 1936. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007231, Image no. SIA2012-0660

    Another Milestone Met: Reminiscing about the Field Book Project and Looking Forward

    • Date: February 21, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.

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  21. Map of expedition sites in Sumatra, 1901

    The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Astronomers Often Go Awry: The 1901 Sumatra Eclipse Expedition

    • Date: August 17, 2017
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Astronomers travel far and wide to see solar eclipses but sometimes their best laid plans don’t work out..

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  23. A sketch of an exhibit floor plan that notes measurements of objects and panels.

    Adventures in Time and Space: Exhibition Records

    • Date: October 25, 2018
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Transferring, processing, and describing exhibition drawings pose significant challenges to the archival workflow.

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