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    1. Dan Kimball adjusting the telescope at the Maria Mitchell Observatory prior to the eclipse.

      Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses

      • Date: August 22, 2017
      • Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.

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    3. Black and white photo of Marjorie B. Illig, presenting a book to Jule Henry as Eleanor Roosevelt looks on.

      Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education

      • Date: March 6, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science

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    5. A computer window titled DArchInfo with clickable heading tabs labeled Search, Query Results, Clipboard, SQL, and logoutThe first column contains accession numbers for Smithonian Archives born-digital holdings (i.e. 00-002). The second column contains names of format types (i.e. AppleDouble Resource Fork, etc.). The third column is the number of each type of file format in that accession (i.e. there are 93 Acrobat PDF/A files).

      Assessing File Format Risk for Born-Digital Preservation Planning

      • Date: August 3, 2021
      • Description: In addition to physical damage and deterioration of storage media, the technological complexity and dependency of electronic records make them uniquely vulnerable to loss, corruption, and alteration (both accidental and malicious). To achieve long-term preservation of fragile born-digital materials, digital archivists need a plan.

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    7. Photographer Michael Barnes adjusting a bird head drawing by Robert Ridgeway on the copy stand surface, 2013, by Ricc Ferrante.

      Rapidly Capturing Ridgway

      • Date: January 16, 2014
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives conducts a test of a rapid digital capture setup using the Robert Ridgway Papers.

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    9. A screenshot of a data table used for recording the condition of discs. The left side contains label information for the discs and the upper right side lists different types of damages.

      Burn This Disc: Treating Fire-Affected Optical Discs, Part I

      • Date: September 2, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This is part one of three in a series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. This month, we’ll introduce the project.

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      Link Love: 4/18/2014

      • Date: April 18, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    13. Takin' Care of Records

      • Date: April 17, 2018
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Did you know April is Records and Information Management Month? Did you also know that the Smithsonian Institution has over 154 million objects, 10 million digital records, and 156,830 cubic feet of archival materials in its collections? It is mostly thanks to amazing record keeping that we are able to locate, care, and give access to millions of fascinating objects.We look at

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      Not Restarting, Starting Over: New Workflows for a New “Normal”

      • Date: August 24, 2021
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Being away from the office for over a year has given us a lot of opportunity to think about what workflows will look like once we are able to return to our collections, especially for conservation and digitization.

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      A Sense of Place

      • Date: February 24, 2011
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_11498" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Out of The Depths, or, the Triumph of the Cross by Nellie Arnold Plummer. AHC 2003.0025.1, in its custom clamshell box after full conservation (inset: before treatment condition), Courtesy Nora Lockshin and Anacostia Community Museum."][/caption] The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be

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    19. Alt: Nora shows a crowd of people small objects on display on a table.

      What Our Experts Want You to Know About Preservation

      • Date: April 29, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: For Preservation Week, our team answered our burning, often ignorant questions about their biggest challenges, what they consider when treating objects, and beyond.

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      New Donation of Scopes Trial Photos to the Smithsonian Archives

      • Date: February 3, 2010
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    23. Mary Rice standing in front of a laboratory building at the Smithsonian Marine State at Fort Pierce.

      Science Conversations in the Shenandoah

      • Date: September 6, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In February 1975, twenty Smithsonian scientists gathered at the National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia to talk about their research and the future of science at the Smithsonian.

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