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      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.

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      So, What is it?

      • Date: June 21, 2016
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: In the process of scanning glass plate negatives, how do we determine what each image is when it comes with so little information attached?

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    5. Exhibit cases In a large hall. A hanging sign reads: “History of the United States.” Visible in the cases are busts, vases, models of sailboats.

      Archives Puzzles: HBD, AIB

      • Date: April 12, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.In honor of the anniversary of the groundbreaking of the Arts and Industries Building, then known as the

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    7. 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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    9. Black and white image of Harry Walters, Navajo male, holding a blanket in a museum collection storage area.

      Harry Walters - Director of the Diné College Museum, 1973-2008

      • Date: July 30, 2020
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Before becoming the Director of the Diné College Museum in Arizona, Harry Walters spent three months at the Smithsonian learning techniques for the care and handling of artifacts, including their identification, description, conservation, storage, and exhibition.

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    11. Letter with letterhead of the United States National Museum in light blue, body of letter written in black ink.

      Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs

      • Date: October 21, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.

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      Searching for Unicorns

      • Date: July 18, 2013
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: The discovery of a folder titled, "Unicorn," in collection at first brings excitement then disappointment as the unicorn in question was a unicorn fish, not the mythical unicorn.

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    15. Close-up photograph of Peggy A. Loar.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Peggy A. Loar

      • Date: April 14, 2021
      • 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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      Exhibiting the Enola Gay

      • Date: June 25, 2020
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.

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    19. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

      Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

      • Date: December 10, 2019
      • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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    21. Wikipedians Hard at Work, Photo courtesy of Effie Kapsalis.

      Inside a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

      • Date: June 8, 2012
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Get an inside-look at a Wikipedia edit-a-thon and learn how you can volunteer for the Smithsonian even if you don't live nearby.

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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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