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    1. A woman holds open a book in the reading room.

      Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

      • Date: August 15, 2019
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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    3. 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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    5. A woman in a long, strapless dress sits in a chair and looks upward. Eye masks hang on the wall behind her.

      Link Love: 11/16/2018

      • Date: November 16, 2018
      • 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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    7. A woman interviewing a man at a table with a recorder in between them.

      Exploring Oral History at the Smithsonian

      • Date: April 6, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: A brief history and exploration of oral history collections at the Smithsonian.

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    9. A Fish Story

      • Date: April 18, 2013
      • Creator: Ginger Yowell
      • Description: The United States Navy often consulted staff at the Smithsonian Institution when naming their submarines after fish.

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    11. 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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    13. Trees of Christmas brochure, 1977. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 96-001: National Museum of American History, Department of Public Programs, Public Program Records, circa 1977-1994. Image nos. SIA2020-000651 to SIA2020-000657.

      Trees of Christmas

      • Date: December 19, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: On December 19, 1977 the Trees of Christmas exhibition opened at the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History). This was the first exhibition of the Office of Horticulture (now Smithsonian Gardens) and featured trees with handcrafted ornaments representing a variety of countries and cultural traditions.

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    15. GIF of someone navigating the introduction page of the web exhibition. It includes a graphic of photographs of people in black-and-white and a portrait painting of James Smithsonian in color.

      Introducing Smithson to Smithsonian

      • Date: August 10, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: As the Smithsonian geared up to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Libraries and Archives decided to revisit the online exhibition From Smithsonian to Smithsonian, created a quarter of a century ago. Today, on the Smithsonian’s birthday, we are pleased to celebrate the launch of a new, refreshed and greatly expanded web exhibition, Smithson to Smithsonian.

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    17. International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via NOAA.

      Deconstructing a “Man’s World” One Woman at a Time

      • Date: August 2, 2018
      • Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.

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    19. Computer Lab operation with Nick Suszynski

      Museum Computer Network and the Smithsonian Institution: Support and Encouragement

      • Date: April 18, 2017
      • Description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Museum Computer Network, this second blog explores the early interactions of MCN with the Smithsonian.

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    21. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018

      • Date: December 27, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    23. National Museum of History and Technology flag

      Happy 100th Flag Day!

      • Date: June 14, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: In celebration of Flag Day, a look at the series of flags designed for the Smithsonian’s museums and research centers, 1965.

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