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    Ricc Ferrante

    • Date: April 5, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Miami Nice

    • Date: March 30, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: When the names of certain cities are mentioned, photographic images of them pop into your head almost immediately. Washington = buildings on or near the mall. New York = skyscrapers of one sort or another. Paris = the Eiffel Tower. Tokyo = the Ginza shopping and entertainment district. With that thought in mind—and considering the multiple roles photography plays in shaping,

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    The Photography of Art

    • Date: November 27, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Zoom In, Zoom Out

    • Date: April 7, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: In November 1938, Science News Letter published a story on Enrico Fermi winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, running a headshot of the professor. It's the kind of photo found in a passport—Fermi is looking forward with not much of a smile. The next question a historian would ask is did Science Service, the publisher, hire one of its photographers to take the photo, or acquire

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    Stellar Evolution: A Journey with Chandra

    • Date: April 25, 2012
    • Description: The Chandra X-ray Observatory explains the origins of recently added image of stellar evolution to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons stream.

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    Where’s Waldo . . . L. Schmitt?

    • Date: February 18, 2016
    • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
    • Description: Waldo L. Schmitt, a curator with the United States National Museum, participated in a 1938 expedition with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to survey the Clipperton, Cocos, and Galapagos Islands.

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    Making Sense of Data That’s Linked and Open

    • Date: June 23, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: If you are a regular reader, or someone who works for a museum, library, or archive, you intimately understand the difficulty in managing big collections. If you’re not in this world, you do understand how hard it is to manage family photographs, a collection of email love letters, or the folder tucked in the bottom of your closet with old college papers. When you multiply

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    Happy Anniversary, National Museum of African American History and Culture!

    • Date: September 28, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A year ago on September 24, 2016, the Smithsonian gained a new museum — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Since then, 2.5 million people have visited the museum. In honor of their historic opening, we look back at photographer Michael Barnes' favorite images from the year.[view:sia_slideshow==77271]Related ResourcesHistory of the National Museum of

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    The Quest for Walcott's Quarry

    • Date: September 15, 2009
    • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2239" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="881. View of the cliff of Mount Burgess from the west slope of Mount Field, three (3) miles north of Field on the Canadian Pacific Railway (British Columbia, Canada). By C.D. Walcott, 1910. 4 x 5" kodak film. Digital image taken directly from nitrate negative.

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  19. Portrait of Henry Joseph Horan, seated.

    Spotlight: Henry Joseph Horan, Superintendent of Buildings

    • Date: July 29, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: A closer look at staff member Henry Horan (1838-1896), who held several positions at the Smithsonian, including janitor, watchman, and superintendent of buildings, during his long career at the Institution.

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    It Takes a Village

    • Date: October 13, 2010
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Sometimes a single picture or new piece of information can open a window to a whole new perspective. In my case, it was a couple of sentences—spoken at a recent presentation at the Best Practices Exchange 2010 conference in Phoenix, Arizona—that turned out to be revelatory. The conference was a gathering of archivists, librarians, record managers, and digital curators whose

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  23. Seven volunteer standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a reading room.

    #MCN50 Conference Next Week

    • Date: November 7, 2017
    • Creator: Charles Zange
    • Description: Behind the archivists, technicians, and specialists of the museum field are an abundance of organizations that network ideas, connect professionals, and present new strategies to broaden the impact of museums (American Alliance of Museums, Society of American Archivists, etc.). Many associations focus on specific aspects of this dynamic field and help to push museum practice

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