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  1. Link Love: 4/26/2013

    • Date: April 26, 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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  3. Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley viewing the Hope Diamond.

    Crowned Heads

    • Date: September 10, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Royalty visits the Smithsonian Institution

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    The Flying Tigers and the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 9, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific

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  7. Doodles sketched by John F. Kennedy, 1961.

    Art in the Margins: John F. Kennedy's "Doodles in Dimension"

    • Date: November 10, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: President John F. Kennedy's doodles were given a new dimension by local Washington, D.C. sculptor Ralph M. Tate and the Anacostia Community Museum.

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    A New Look at the Smithsonian: Louise Hutchinson

    • Date: September 29, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Louise Hutchinson taught us about African American history in Washington, D.C., and in the Smithsonian itself.

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  11. Stamp with a red-ish brown tone that features the Smithsonian Institution Building. The text reads: “3 cent sign, 1846 Smithsonian Institution 1946.

    Celebrating the Smithsonian Centennial

    • Date: July 20, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and

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    Kodak Girl

    • Date: March 23, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="181" caption="Edmonia Lewis, National Portrait Gallery"][/caption] In Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia (2000), Nancy Martha West describes how the company—marketing the first box cameras in the 1890s—aggressively targeted female consumers, hoping they’d “see photography not only as a necessary component of domestic life but as an integral

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    The Smithsonian's 165th Anniversary

    • Date: August 10, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Exactly 165 years ago today, legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution was passed by the US Congress and signed into law by President James K. Polk. From today’s perspective, it seems like a “no-brainer” to accept a generous bequest from a little-known Englishman named James Smithson and create an institution in his name. But from the perspective of that era, the

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  17. Portrait of Carmichael. He is wearing a suit with a white handkerchief sticking out of the front pocket. He has a mustache. He is not smiling.

    Leonard Carmichael, Seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 7, 2022
    • Creator: Tatiana Swann
    • Description: Dr. Leonard Carmichael led the Smithsonian Institution through many changes during his tenure as the seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian. He presided over new museums and facility openings, special acquisitions, and exciting exhibitions. Because Carmichael was hired from outside of the Smithsonian, he brought a new perspective, his academic background, and skills to thrust

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  19. How Many Objects does the Smithsonian Have?

    • Date: January 25, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12123,size=250,left]It is a simple answer really: We counted. From 1978 to 1983, the Smithsonian undertook a comprehensive inventory of its collections. It was the first time the Smithsonian had ever tried to count each object in its collections and it was a massive task. Over five years, staff from every museum and research center spent thousands of

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  21. Display of a wall of orchids inside the Hirshhorn Museum.

    Orchids and Oral History

    • Date: April 16, 2020
    • Description: Let’s learn about the history of Smithsonian Gardens’ annual orchid exhibit with a little help from former director Barbara Faust through her 2011 oral history interview.

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  23. Link Love: 06/25/2021

    • Date: June 25, 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.

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