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      Shape-Shifting and Sharing Data

      • Date: June 27, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: When institutions archive data, they capture and organize it in digital formats that make the most sense to them, based upon their specific group of users, needs, and technical options that are available at a given point in time. But what happens if, for example, institutions decide that it makes sense to enhance their mission by their presenting data collections in less

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      Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

      • Date: June 16, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Since The Bigger Picture began in early 2009, I’ve written a number of posts about what might be called camera traps, situations where cameras are installed to collect evidence of one kind of unusual or unwanted behavior or another. Red light cameras are a controversial example; across the country and on an almost daily basis, local municipalities and motorists argue about

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    5. A Salute to Scrapbooks

      • Date: May 6, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In honor of National Scrapbooking Month, the Archives highlights the scrapbook of William and Lucile Mann from their trip to Argentina in 1939.

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    7. Two handwritten journal pages, written in black and blue ink. The left page is a list of books the author wishes to purchase and miscellaneous notes, and the right page is a summary of some personal correspondence.

      Happy National Limerick Day!

      • Date: May 11, 2021
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: Tomorrow is National Limerick Day!

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    9. A tweet from Hettie Ashwin mentioning her writing.

      Get Inspired: Using Smithsonian Images for Creative Writing

      • Date: January 17, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: A highlight of a series of creative writings inspired by photographs from the Smithsonian Flickr Commons and published at the online journal, Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure.

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    11. B&W photograph of Island with markers showing Eniwetok and Perry Islands

      Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!

      • Date: January 30, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping

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      How Hot Was It At Bull Run?

      • Date: July 20, 2011
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    15. Opening remarks from Bill Tompkins, National Collections Coordinator at SI.

      2011 Archives Fair Webcast Live Now

      • Date: October 14, 2011
      • 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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      What He Wrote and Where He Wrote It

      • Date: December 15, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Salman Rushdie's archives, featured in an Emory University publication, by Georgia Popplewell, Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic."][/caption] Back in October I talked—with great interest and at length—with Anne Van Camp, director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, about the various

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    19. Rudi Gernreich, 1967, by Boris Chaliapin, National Portrait Gallery.

      Who Wore What and When?

      • Date: August 31, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Savage Beauty, the posthumous and retrospective exhibition of women’s fashions designed by Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art closed early in August. The record breaking event—an official attendance count of 661,509 visitors made it the eighth biggest show in the museum’s history—featured approximately one hundred ensembles drawn, primarily,

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    21. One of the many behind-the-scenes photos in the Archives new Flickr photostream.

      Introducing the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ New Flickr Photostream

      • Date: May 2, 2012
      • Creator: Susannah Wells
      • Description: Smithsonian Institution Archives is now using Flickr hightlight behind-the-scenes projects, workshops, and staff at work.

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      "Day With(out) Art”: A Brief History at the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 30, 2017
      • Description: DAY Without ArtSince 1989, December 1 has been observed as Day Without Art, coinciding with World AIDS Day.December 1 is the Day Without Art, coinciding with World AIDS Day. Join us as we explore how the Smithsonian has “celebrate[d] the lives and achievements of lost colleagues and friends.”

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