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  1. Ice skaters on Rock Creek on the grounds of the National Zoological Park, c. 1905, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. MAH-15760

    Hockey Weekend Across America

    • Date: February 27, 2014
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: To honor this year's Hockey Weekend Across America, we highlight some hockey related material from the Archives and the Smithsonian.

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  3. Scan of a 1938 Washington Post article.

    Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian

    • Date: April 26, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August

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  5. “The Proper Thing to Do": James Smithson’s Journey to Washington

    • Date: June 27, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: On the 190th anniversary of the death of Smithsonian founding donor James Smithson, we’re taking a look back at his posthumous journey, led by Alexander Graham Bell, to his final resting place in Washington, D.C.

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    Link Love: 6/27/2014

    • Date: June 27, 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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    Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford

    • Date: March 11, 2014
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.

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  11. Embracing the Crowd

    • Date: April 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: When I started working with museums in 2005, the concept of crowdsourcing was in its infancy. That year, James Surowiecki ‘s book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” was published and there were tiny experiments in crowdsourcing occurring in the cultural heritage sector. There were hesitations and objections about the whole concept within the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum)

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    50 Years of Folklife

    • Date: June 29, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10193,size=175,left]Fifty years ago the Smithsonian embarked on a new venture to bring the culture on display in the museum to life with the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then called the Festival of American Folklife, it set out to show that the crafts shown inside museums are also still alive and well across the country.

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    Let’s Talk Turkey

    • Date: November 21, 2012
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Birds of a feather flock together, especially if they are a pair of patriotic turkeys who took up residency at the Smithsonian's National Zoo.

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  17. A 2002 press release about an exhibition at the National Museum at Natural History. It was written and saved as a Microsoft Word document.

    Word-processing files need love, too

    • Date: December 31, 2015
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Word-processing documents are important to preserve as well as other digital items.

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  19. Herbert Hoover before becoming President

    Science Service, Up Close: Herbert Clark Hoover and Radio, August 11, 1928

    • Date: August 11, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Photos in the Science Service collection documenting Herbert Hoover's historic acceptance of the Presidential nomination with live radio coverage.

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    See Here: 6/16/2010

    • Date: June 16, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Daniel Stanley, Curator of Sedimentology, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, watching a videotape of the ocean bottom of Wilmington Canyon, On the screen is a penetrometer, which shows the bottom consistency, 1969, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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  23. The world’s first airplane was built by Wilbur and Orville Wright and flown for the first time in Kitty Hawk, N.C. on Dec. 17, 1903. In addition to making those historic first flights, the Wright Flyer embodies fundamental elements of all subsequent airplanes.

    Link Love: 11/15/2013

    • Date: November 15, 2013
    • 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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