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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
Link Love: 04/16/2021
- Date: April 16, 2021
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a biweekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2018
- Date: May 22, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch
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Link Love: 2/27/2015
- Date: February 27, 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.
Link Love: 9/20/2019
- Date: September 20, 2019
- 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.
Alice Paul Memorial March
- Date: March 26, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Alice Paul Memorial March in Washington, D.C.
Archives Puzzles: Toga! Toga!
- Date: February 15, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
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Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings
- Date: August 3, 2017
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.
An Audio Anniversary: Groundbreaking at the Hirshhorn
- Date: January 12, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Missed Connections
- Date: February 3, 2022
- Creator: Hannah Byrne
- Description: For Valentine’s Day, we’re digging into some local love stories that started at the Smithsonian.
International Migratory Bird Day
- Date: May 5, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: To celebrate International Migratory Bird Day on May 9th, we will be releasing recently digitized specimen drawings by ornithologist Robert Ridgway (1850-1929.) Ridgway's career with the Smithsonian began in 1864 when he wrote asking for help identifying a bird. As they say, the rest is history. Starting in 1869, Ridgway became curator at the Smithsonian's United States
Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor
- Date: July 18, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006.