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    Link Love: 9/3/2010

    • Date: September 3, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="190" caption="Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., NASA flight surgeon William Douglas and equipment specialist Joseph W. Schmidt leave crew quarters prior to the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, February 1962, NASA on the Commons."][/caption] NASA has joined the Flickr Commons! Go and check out some of their historical images. Our readers and Flickr

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    Call for Entries! Seeing Other Worlds

    • Date: May 8, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: How can photography help us see things that would otherwise go unnoticed in our everyday lives? How does photography change our perception of the world? If you have ideas about this, consider contributing your image and story to the new click! photography changes everything call for entry: "Seeing Other Worlds." While you’re at it, check out some of our click!

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    Chemists in the Collections

    • Date: January 27, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Today was the kickoff of the International Year of Chemistry 2011, and so we wanted to take the chance to introduce you to some of the chemists from our collections featured on the Smithsonian’s Flickr Commons. Our Flickr Commons sets are filled with photos both of chemistry greats that even the non-scientifically inclined among us celebrated in grade-school textbooks, and

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    Family Affair

    • Date: November 9, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-1878), and his wife, Harriet Henry, and their daughters Caroline, Helen and Mary with croquet mallets on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution Building, c.

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  9. Happy Flag Day!

    • Date: June 14, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as

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    Happy paper anniversary?

    • Date: October 7, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_8465" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Beth Antoine, Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation, conducts research on the letter or copy press books of Secretary Spencer F. Baird, Courtesy of Nora Lockshin."][/caption] One year ago on October 8th, after several years of planning, waiting, and building, the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation

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  13. Here at the Smithsonian: Art Conservation

    • Date: January 26, 2021
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Check out these two newly-available clips from Here At The Smithsonian!

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    October is American Archives Month: Fin.

    • Date: November 4, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: November is here and the leaves seem to finally be changing, which heralds the end of October is American Archives Month. Our 31-day Blogathon was a smashing success, garnering about 10,000 visits, and even though Archives month has come to a close, we will continue to post about our profession, our stories, and our wonderfully unique treasures. [caption id="attachment_9907"

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    Design + Archives: Read All About It!

    • Date: April 16, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: The exhibition brochure for "Mathew Brady's Portraits," September 26, 1997 to January 4, 1998 at the National Portrait Gallery mimics a mid-19th century gazette.

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  19. Web Archiving Update

    • Date: August 6, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A progress report on the Archives' web archiving effort since subscribing to Archive-It.

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    What Smithsonian Animals Think of National Hug Day

    • Date: January 21, 2014
    • Description: Today is National Hug day! If you are feeling a little hug deprived don’t worry, we have scoured our collections to find you the best image of animals embracing the day.

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  23. Photograph of Jopling standing outside of the library in Panama.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Carol Farrington Jopling

    • Date: October 28, 2020
    • 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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