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    Into the Future

    • Date: January 21, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="196" caption="Pioneers to the Past, Exhibition catalogue, Image courtesy of The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago."][/caption] Archives now! The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago has just opened an exhibition, Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919-20, in a very interesting

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    Link Love: 4/9/2010

    • Date: April 9, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  5. View out the front of a

    "Roughing" It

    • Date: June 9, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Having grown up in a major U.S. city with a family that considered spending a week in a grass hut camping, I committed to giving my daughter more exposure to the great outdoors with all the wonderful state and national parks near Washington D.C. However, lack of sleep and rehydrated food was not what I had in mind.Throughout history, Smithsonian researchers have conducted

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  7. 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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  9. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 19-098, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Political History, Curatorial Records, 1977-2015

    • Date: 1977 1977-2015
    • Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Political History
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    What Does an Electronic Records Archivist Do?

    • Date: August 10, 2010
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs,

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    The Anniversary of the National Museum of African Art: A Gift in August

    • Date: August 13, 2012
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: On August 13, 2012 the National Museum of African Art, founded by Warren M. Robbins, became a part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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    In a Smithsonian Archive Minute

    • Date: January 28, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="A visitor to the National Portrait Gallery takes a picture of a friend next to the newly-installed, temporary portrait of comedian Stephen Colbert, by Andrew Deci, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] To judge from a walk I just took across the Smithsonian Mall, visitors to our Nation’s capitol are doing nothing

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  17. The Smithsonian's 1st female employee, librarian Jane Turner (no picture of Turner exists), was in charge of the library and also oversaw the distribution & exchange of scientific publications with 1,744 institutions in 26 countries. #Groundbreaker

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jane Turner

    • Date: April 20, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Ths Smithsonian's 1st female employee, librarian Jane Turner (no picture of Turner exists), was in charge of the library and also oversaw the distribution & exchange of scientific publications with 1,744 institutions in 26 countries. #Groundbreaker

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  19. Link Love: 11/27/2020

    • Date: November 27, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Boxing Lessons

    • Date: April 14, 2011
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Recently I was asked "What are some of the challenges you face in your work as an archivist?" One of the first things that came to mind is the challenge of effectively communicating the Archives’ needs and procedures with the people I serve at the Smithsonian. At the Archives we collect, preserve, and make accessible the records that document the history of the Smithsonian. To

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    Upon Closer Inspection . . .

    • Date: December 9, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3532" align="aligncenter" width="220" caption="Lorgnette Humaine, Scan from The English Mechanic, 1897 drawing of an invention using X-Rays to scan luggage, courtesy of Flickr user Mark Wahl, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] A week or so ago, shoes off and stuck in the slow moving security check line at an airport, I became fixated as I

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