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      Walt Disney's Progressland

      • Date: July 21, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.

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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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      The Field Book Project: Uncovering Hidden Gems at the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 21, 2010
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Meet Sarah Stierch: The Archives’ Wikipedian in Residence

      • Date: March 28, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives hosts Sarah Stierch as Wikipedian-in-Residence for Spring 2012.

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    9. Smithson's Draft Will: A Case for Handwriting

      • Date: January 23, 2013
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: An examination of handwriting characteristics. Part 1 of a series on the James Smithson Draft Will.

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      Celebrating the Smithsonian Latino Center

      • Date: September 17, 2020
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Documenting the history, programs, and activities of the Smithsonian Latino Center through the capture of their websites and their other online sites.

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      Google Halts an Archiving Project

      • Date: June 8, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Newspapers, by Quinn Cowper, Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND 2.0."][/caption] On May 20th, a flurry of reports took note of Google’s decisions to halt its ambitious efforts to digitize the contents of newspaper archives and make them online and at no cost.

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      The Mercury's Rising. Again.

      • Date: May 30, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="This image from Mercury mission number four taken on Sept. 13, 1961 is just one of the many images that was written on by engineers. Credit: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University."][/caption] On May 16th, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral to watch the Endeavor, the NASA space shuttle,

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      Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

      • Date: May 8, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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      National Museum of the American Indian

      • 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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      SIA Acc. 13-041, National Museum of American History (U.S.), Website Records, 2008-2012

      • Date: 2008 2008-2012
      • Creator: National Museum of American History
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Roam if You Want to....Roam Around the World

      • Date: May 13, 2021
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: It has officially been 426 days since the Smithsonian Institution (including the Archives) first closed its doors. Many may be wondering….how does an archivist, especially one who deals directly with photographs or photographic negatives, continue to work from home for over a year? Well, my friends, I will give you a brief glimpse into some of the work I have been able to

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