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    1. Bridget Shea leans back in a theater seat. Caption: Bridget Shea was the manager of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Samuel P. Langley IMAX Theater and the Albert Einstein Planetarium, 1992–97, and manager of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater, which she also helped design, 1997–2000. Shea supervised the operations of the theaters and prioritized accessibility services, such as closed captioning and audio descriptions. #Groundbreaker

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Bridget Shea

      • Date: March 4, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Bridget Shea was the manager of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Samuel P. Langley IMAX Theater and the Albert Einstein Planetarium, 1992–97, and manager of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater, which she also helped design, 1997–2000. Shea supervised the operations of the theaters and prioritized accessibility

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      It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening

      • Date: September 15, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.

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    5. Invitation to the opening of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum in 1987.

      Design + Archives: Anacostia Community Museum

      • Date: February 21, 2017
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Celebrating 50 years in 2017, the Anacostia Community Museum opened on September 15, 1967.

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      Down at the Drive-In

      • Date: August 4, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_1679" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Untitled (Drive-In: Circle Theatre), Steve Fitch, 1976, Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection"][/caption] Media and transportation seem forever linked. As I wrote in a previous post, the portable camera and the bicycle made a very nice pairing in their early years at the turn of the 20th century.

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    9. Google Art Project now has 3D objects from a variety of museums and galleries, including animal skulls!

      Link Love: 4/10/2015

      • Date: April 10, 2015
      • 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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    11. A female conservator looks through a microscope as she conserves a large painting.

      Link Love: 6/30/2017

      • Date: June 30, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: An intimate look at the painting conservation studio at the National Gallery of Art. [via NPR]A newly discovered species of wasp was named in honor of David Bowie. [via Mashable]The Smithsonian is just one of the organizations banning drinking straws due to the environmental harm they cause. [via Washington Post]Can real coral reefs be saved by artificial ones? [via Fusion

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      Didn't You Just Love the Picture? I Did.

      • Date: March 2, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      The Woman with the Gramophone

      • Date: April 2, 2009
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Save Our Sounds Postcard, Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] For the last few years, I’ve had this postcard up in my office promoting Save Our Sounds, a program by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Library of Congress dedicated to restoring,

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    17. The Last of Mr. Lincoln

      • Date: October 4, 2012
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: A file in the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ accession records tells the story of an historic piece of Lincoln memorabilia that didn't wind up in the Smithsonian’s collections.

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      Here at the Smithsonian: Black Pride at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum

      • Date: February 23, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: To celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring exhibitions from the Anacostia Community Museum in the 1980s.

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    21. This image is found in Record Unit 74 - National Zoological Park, Records, 1887-1966 - Box 287, Smithsonian Institution Archives. The photograph was taken by Harris-Ewing photography services. The Library of Congress contains the Harris-Ewing Collection, but neither the librarians nor I have been able to find the original among the collection’s 50,000 entries.

      Sounding the Old Wolf-Cry

      • Date: November 14, 2013
      • Description: While researching my last blog post on the "mad wolf" who escaped from the National Zoo, I came across an old black-and-white photograph in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that caught my eye. The image is grainy, but appears to show a man and a wolf, separated by a chain-link fence, holding each other's rapt attention while the man operates some sort of recorder. Unable

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    23. Young girl playing a violin with a piano and yellow electric guitar in the background.

      Turn up the Volume - The Electric Guitar

      • Date: March 5, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In November of 1996, the electric guitar, its history and its makers, were the focus of attention at the National Museum of American History.

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