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    1. Off with their Heads?: Matchbooks in Archives

      • Date: May 2, 2013
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: The conservator considers potential damage to and from matchbooks in collections.

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    3. Registrar Cordelia Rose added personal and humorous details to the scroll as the automation of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum registration process progressed. This photograph, placed near the end of the scroll, depicts programmer Jay Vanatta walking away and a thought bubble noting

      "Scrolling" Through Museum Processes

      • Date: September 12, 2013
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Two almost forgotten scrolls document the automation of museum processes at the Cooper-Hewitt.

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    5. 1963 March on Washington, 1963, by Jim Wallace, Smithsonian Institution Archives

      Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

      • Date: August 31, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      American History in an Earthenware Teacup

      • Date: January 14, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: C. Malcolm Watkins (1911-2001), curator of cultural history at the National Museum of American History, was a pioneer of material culture studies and historic archeology.

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    9. Black and white photograph of Massey.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mary E. Massey

      • Date: March 10, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: From 1967 to 1991, Mary E. Massey broke barriers for women at the Smithsonian by demonstrating her skills in spaces typically reserved only for men. Though Massey arrived at the Smithsonian as an elevator operator, by her retirement, she was the building manager for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. In a column reserved for the Smithsonian

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    11. Smithsonian Torch article about the formation of the SI Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee, March 1992. Len Hirsch is pictured, right.

      Smithsonian GLOBE: A History

      • Date: June 6, 2017
      • Description: In celebration of Pride 2017, a look back at the history of the Smithsonian GLOBE (Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Employees) organization.

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    13. Hot Topix in Archival Research During a Pandemic

      • Date: July 9, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    15. Installation of a restored segregation-era railway car, circa 1918 in the National Museum of African American History and Culture, November 17, 2013. Courtesy of NMAAHC.

      National Museum of African American History and Culture - Happy 10th Anniversary!

      • Date: December 16, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Take a moment to celebrate the 10th anniversary of legislation that created the National Museum of African American History and Culture!

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    17. Link Love: 12/6/2019

      • Date: December 6, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly 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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    19. Resurrection City, National Mall, Washington, DC, 1968.

      The Smithsonian and the Poor People's Campaign

      • Date: January 17, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: The Smithsonian served as neighbor to the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 and still tells its story almost 50 years later.

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    21. Majewski crouches down near two children, who are not looking toward the camera.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Majewski

      • Date: May 19, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    23. Front cover of an exhibition pamphlet. It has a brown-ish streak down the middle and a red cross at the top center.

      M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Exhibit

      • Date: July 30, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Thirty-six years ago today, M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Wounds opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the response was overwhelming.

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