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  1. Shutter with three signs on it. The signs read:

    Link Love: 11/02/2018

    • Date: November 2, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Halloween is over, but you can prepare for next year’s festivities with these costume ideas from the Archives of American Art. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The National Zoo’s naked mole-rat colony is still in anarchy! [via DCist]See sixty of this year’s top wildlife photographs submitted to the Windland Smith Rice Awards either online or in person at the National Museum of

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  3. Photograph album page, black paper with five black and white photographs of plants and a spider specimen.

    Thanks for the specimens, J. Bruce Bredin!

    • Date: October 11, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: This philanthropist’s passion for research and adventure inspired him to join a series of collecting expeditions with the Smithsonian in the 1950s.

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  5. Aerial view of the National Museum of the American Indian from September 21, 2004, by Carl C. Hansen, Accession 11-019 - Smithsonian Photographic Services Collection, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 2004-53062.

    National Museum of the American Indian in Washington Marks 10th Anniversary

    • Date: September 18, 2014
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: NMAI opened 10 years ago with a large gathering of native peoples in Washington, D.C.

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  7. Blog Post

    Exploring the National Parks

    • Date: August 1, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: August is National Parks Month, but the Smithsonian has celebrated the National Park Service for decades! Enjoy a selection of national parks images from the Archives' collection.

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  9. Article featuring Mildred Glover, titled

    Following a Thread of History: Mildred M. Glover

    • Date: September 12, 2019
    • Description: An intern’s experience following a thread to learn more about an exceptional Smithsonian employee, Mildred Glover.

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  11. 2012 Jazz Appreciation Month Poster.

    JAM: A Month of Musical Celebration

    • Date: April 3, 2012
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: April is Jazz Appreciation Month. In addition to events across the globe, you can find jazz nuggets in various archives.

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  13. Link Love 3/6

    • Date: March 6, 2020
    • 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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  15. The mystery hairs, November 1, 2013, by Andrea Hall, Accession 12-320 - Edward William Nelson Field Notes, 1869-1886, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Porcupine, Deer, or Other? A Field Book Mystery

    • Date: November 12, 2013
    • Description: Use of microscopy and collaboration with members of the Smithsonian staff helped get to the bottom of a field book mystery.

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  17. Black and white photograph of a baby two-toed sloth in a basket holding the finger of its caretaker.

    A (Brief) History of Sloths at the Smithsonian

    • Date: October 20, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: …in which a member of the Archives staff turns her passion for sloths into a mission to research their history at the Smithsonian Institution.

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  19. Email Users Directory, 2015, Courtesy of David Bridge.

    The History of Email at the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 21, 2015
    • Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email

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  21. Cover of OPA Negative Log

    Office of Public Affairs Photographic Collection

    • Date: September 19, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Highlighting the photographic holdings at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  23. Weird and Wonderful: The Surprising Mrs. Hilda Hempl Heller

    • Date: May 16, 2013
    • Description: A brief look into the life of Hilda Hempl Heller – scientist and enthusiast of life.

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