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    Link Love: 12/2/2016

    • Date: December 2, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Perfect time of year to take a tour of D.C.'s secret gardens, including the Smithsonian's! [via Shakespeare Theatre Company]The State Library of Virginia asked residents for Civil War mementos, and they delivered (and they are now online). [via Centre Daily Times]Hear about the massive undertaking to save wartorn Sudan's archives. [via National Geographic]Cambridge Dictionary

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  3. The first page of Margaret S. Collins’ memorial service pamphlet.

    A Legend in Termite Field Biology

    • Date: March 2, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.

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    Ruel P. Tolman’s Images: Who Are You?

    • Date: January 12, 2012
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Help us identify images from the 1930s, photographed by Ruel P. Tolman, Curator and Director of the Smithsonian’s National Collection of Fine Arts.

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    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

    • Date: July 2, 2020
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  9. Patrick Milhoan, Archives Technician, Archives and Information Management Team, 2015, by Mitch Toda.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: September 22, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: At the Smithsonian Institution Archives we've added some new staff, including Patrick Milhoan, our new Archives Technician.

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  11. Hold on Loosely

    • Date: May 28, 2019
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Whether we love to hate them, or hate to love them, paper clips are a huge part of working in archives. In an attempt to showcase this little contraption, we did a call out to the twitterverse for other archivists to share their collection of paper clips. Needless to say, it was not a disappointment. Now go forth archivists! And remember Clippy will always be there to

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  13. The Secret Treasure Vault that Might Have Been

    • Date: September 20, 2012
    • Description: During World War II, a plan to build a secret collections vault under a memorial to Oliver Wendell Holmes in Washington, DC.

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    A Well Engineered Photograph

    • Date: November 20, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Construction of the Pension Building, Designed by Montgomery Meigs, c. 1883, by Unknown photographer, Albumen print, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Image ID: AFS 182."][/caption] One of the first collections that I encountered during my travels through the photography collections of the

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    Discoveries Don’t Happen in an Armchair

    • Date: November 27, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The 19th century was a transformative time for the natural sciences. New discoveries didn't just happen in an armchair. Scientists adventured into unfamiliar territory by land and sea on expeditions, and their new findings fed new theories. Groups like the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences formalized America's place

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  19. Heidi Stover, Archives Technician, Reference Team, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015, by Mitch Toda.

    Staff Matters: Meet our New Additions

    • Date: June 23, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A brief introduction to some our new staff at the Archives: First up is Heidi Stover, Archives Technician.

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    Documenting a Life of One’s Own

    • Date: March 24, 2022
    • Description: Consider the courage it took for some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian to donate their personal papers to the Institution.

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  23. 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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