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    1. Dr. Robert P. Multauf, Director of the Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History. April 5, 1966.

      Bald and Free Smithsonian

      • Date: October 14, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In honor of Bald and Free Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents bald or partially bald employees and visitors to the Smithsonian.

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    3. Highlighting Diane Arbus: "A box of ten photographs"

      • Date: March 29, 2018
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Opening on April 6, 2018, A box of ten photographs highlights the portfolio of Diane Arbus, an American photographer known for her black-and-white images of marginalized individuals, including the mentally ill, circus performers, and transgender people. The exhibition, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) until January 21, 2019, traces the history of Arbus's

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    5. A small dog sits in front of a computer.

      Roam if You Want to....Roam Around the World

      • Date: May 13, 2021
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: It has officially been 426 days since the Smithsonian Institution (including the Archives) first closed its doors. Many may be wondering….how does an archivist, especially one who deals directly with photographs or photographic negatives, continue to work from home for over a year? Well, my friends, I will give you a brief glimpse into some of the work I have been able to

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    7. S. Dillon Ripley Views Quadrangle, 1987

      The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II

      • Date: April 28, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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    9. Program for Entertainment onboard S.S. Republic, October 10, 1925. Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, c. 1910-1963, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image no. SIA2015-007141.

      Science Service, Up Close: Watson Comes Home

      • Date: October 6, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: After successfully completing his 1925 European business trip, 29-year-old Watson Davis headed home on the S.S. Republic, boarding at Cherbourg, France, on October 2. The science journalist had covered the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and discussed with Sir Richard Gregory (Editor of the journal Nature) the plausibility of

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    11. Ruderman family photo, 1900

      Archiving Family Traditions

      • Date: December 10, 2013
      • Description: Holiday family traditions are some of the things that people look forward to throughout the year. For my family, that would be the annual Christmas party. This is an unusual tradition in a Jewish family that emigrated from Russia at the turn of the 20th century.That's my Grandmother, Sally, on the lower left, her 4 brothers and sisters and her mother. It was her younger

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    13. Gathering specimens in the field for the insect zoo at the National Museum of Natural History, August 8, 1972, by Harry Neufeld.

      Bug Hunting

      • Date: September 16, 2014
      • Description: In the early years of the National Museum of Natural History’s Insect Zoo, staff members, volunteers and their family ventured out to local field, streams and even monuments to collect specimens.

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      Digital Video Preservation: Further Challenges for Preserving Digital Video and Beyond

      • Date: August 16, 2011
      • Description: As one can expect, the complexity of digital video provides a few more factors to track and assess when compared with analog moving image counterparts in the archive.

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    17. At left, a brown-haired man leafs through a folder of archival correspondence laying on a white work table, while a brown-haired woman takes notes on her laptop, which is perched atop a gray library cart laden with archival storage boxes.

      Finding Our Way Ahead

      • Date: June 16, 2022
      • Description: Since our last post, we have moved back to working on site in our new, hybrid normal. See how our proposals for new workflows are turning out!

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    19. An 8 inch floppy disk.

      How Computers Took Off at the National Air and Space Museum: 1980-1981

      • Date: December 1, 2016
      • Description: A look at a survey of computer usage at the National Air and Space Museum in 1980.

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    21. Dick Benson, March 1975, by Kjell Sandved

      Sandved and his Snapshots

      • Date: April 4, 2013
      • Description: Kjell Bloch Sandved worked as a photographer for the National Musuem of Natural History for 32 years and his Photographic Files captured the Museum’s staff at work in 1975.

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    23. Summer Wind to Ban-y-Bryn

      • Date: July 25, 2013
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: This blog piece is about summer weather in Washington, DC, the Alice Pike Barney collections here at SIA, and the Barney’s “summer cottage” in Bar Harbor, ME, “Ban-y-Bryn.”

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