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  1. An interfiled audio record.

    What a Groovy Idea! A Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections

    • Date: April 21, 2016
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.

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  3. Letter to R. Edward Earll instructing him to retrieve the dagger belonging to the Leif Erikson statue from the Superintendent of the Women’s Building, written on United States National Museum letterhead.

    Digitization and Exploration: An Intern Works with the Exposition Records

    • Date: December 10, 2020
    • Description: Learn about the digitization process and some fun Smithsonian history from a fall internship project!

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    Publicity, Politics, and Physics

    • Date: March 10, 2010
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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  7. Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: October 4, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  9. It's National Radio Day and The World Is Yours

    • Date: August 20, 2020
    • Description: This National Radio Day, we’re taking a look (and listen) back to a few recent blog posts that have featured clips from episodes of Smithsonian’s first radio program, The World Is Yours.

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  11. 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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    Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 13, 2016
    • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
    • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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  15. The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Spring 2016.

    Viewing the Smithsonian in a Different Way

    • Date: January 31, 2017
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The Smithsonian Architectural History and Historic Preservation office serves as curator of the Smithsonian buildings.

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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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  19. 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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  21. Ross Island, Antarctica. Alexander Stevens, chief scientist and geologist looks south. Hut Point Peninsula in the background. Cellulose nitrate processed sheet film negative, found in Captain Scott's 1911 expedition base, Cape Evans, Antarctica, by Antarctica Heritage Trust conservators. Photo by Ernest Shackleton's Ross Sea Party, 1914-1917.

    Link Love: 1/3/2014

    • Date: January 3, 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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  23. B&W photograph of Island with markers showing Eniwetok and Perry Islands

    Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!

    • Date: January 30, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping

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