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    1. Getty Image Used in Game of Thrones Recap of Season 6, Episode 1.

      Link Love: 5/20/2016

      • Date: May 20, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: SPOILER ALERT! The Getty Museum is summarizing Game of Thrones episodes each Monday on Tumblr. (via Mental Floss)The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has openly released their patent and trademark datasets to developers. (via Info Docket)Daunting - "Archiving a Website for Ten Thousand Years." (via Atlantic)The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery now has a

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    3. Unknown Mill

      So, What is it?

      • Date: June 21, 2016
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: In the process of scanning glass plate negatives, how do we determine what each image is when it comes with so little information attached?

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    5. Expedition photo by Lonnie Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, Ohio State University from The Habitable Planet.

      Archiving Born-Digital Media from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

      • Date: October 27, 2020
      • Description: We’ve been processing audiovisual media collections from the Science Media Group division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

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    7. Blog Post

      Mothers Day Inspiration

      • Date: May 9, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Get ready for Mother's Day with these images of Smithsonian staff and their families caring for young animals.

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    9. To Preserve or Not to Preserve: Social Media

      • Date: June 13, 2012
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A quick overview of how the Archives decides what social media to preserve to document the Smithsonian’s history.

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    11. Promotional black and white photograph of The Beatles, c. 1964, as seen in even, non-raking visible light. Courtesy of E. Keats Webb, Museum Conservation Institute. Accession 2014.02 - Harry Lynn Collection, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.

      But all I've got is a photograph . . . or an autograph?

      • Date: April 29, 2014
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: Watch how we make invisible Beatles’ autographs visible with Reflectance Transform Imaging, a technique for forensic document examination.

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    13. Message sent by Alfred Vail and transcribed by Samuel Morse.

      A Forgotten History: Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse

      • Date: May 24, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Aww: Cute Baby Animals and Other Field Book Surprises

      • Date: May 25, 2017
      • Creator: Mignonette (Mig) Dooley Johnson:
      • Description: Snapshots of cute baby animals, taken during the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies in 1937.

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    17. Hupa basket, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer.

      Accession Records: Not Just Interdepartmental Paper Piles

      • Date: August 11, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    19. Giant Panda researcher Devra Kleiman records Hsing-Hsing's vocalizations.

      The Archival Legacy of Devra Kleiman

      • Date: May 25, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Research at the Archives: Finding Grasses for the South

      • Date: May 26, 2011
      • Description: As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History, I’ve spent months in the Smithsonian Institution Archives researching a book tentatively titled, Not Naturally a Grass Country: Environment, Plant Genetics, and the Quest for Agricultural Modernization in the Humid World. It’s largely a story about global attempts to replace one form of agriculture—the

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    23. Two men stand in between Michael Jackson and the National Museum of Air and Space. Hanging airplanes are visible in the background.

      Link Love: 05/14/2021

      • Date: May 14, 2021
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a biweekly 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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