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      Please Feed the Visitors!

      • Date: August 3, 2010
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_7706" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="First eBook made by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media, August 2, 2010"]You [/caption] Update: You can read a follow-up post about the Anthologize project and process here. As Head of Web & New Media, I'm always looking for ways we can engage visitors with our papers, photographs,

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    3. The Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory. Behind the sign is a series of cascading wetland pools containing native plants. Photo by Kira Sobers, September 12, 2015.

      The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

      • Date: October 13, 2015
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: With nineteen museums and research centers, the Smithsonian Institution is so much more than just the buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In fact, if you drive about 33 miles east of the National Mall, you will find the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), located in Edgewater, Maryland, and this year, the site is celebrating its 50th Anniversary.

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    5. Link Love: 6/21/2019

      • Date: June 21, 2019
      • 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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    7. Barn owls, named 'Increase' and 'Diffusion,' living in the West Tower.

      Residents of a Different Feather

      • Date: April 24, 2012
      • Description: History of the many barn owls who have lived in the towers of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or "Castle."

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    9. Where is the Smithsonian?

      • Date: January 2, 2014
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: The simple question, "Where is the Smithsonian?," has always been a difficult one to answer.

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    11. The Statue of Freedom on display at the Arts and Industries Building. Other objects, like cannons and a spinning

      Archives Puzzles: Statue of Freedom

      • Date: November 2, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    13. View of the Smithsonian Castle in the distance behind a wall of trees, from downtown Washington

      The Smithsonian Castle Construction Begins

      • Date: March 19, 2019
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Building, or the “Castle,” is the most iconic of all the Smithsonian’s 769 facilities, which include its nineteen museums, nine research centers, National Zoo, and all of its other establishments. The Castle was the first building constructed specifically for the Smithsonian after it was founded in 1846. On March 19, 1847, a contract was signed with

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    15. A man stands and leans next to a painting. Another man holds a camera to his eye and points the camera at the leaning man.

      Tips and Lessons from the Opening of the Renwick Gallery

      • Date: June 11, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: In the midst of Smithsonian's busy season, we’re providing tips for visitors through the lens of photographs from the opening of the Renwick Gallery in 1972.

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    17. A woman leans back on a bench. Trees are in the background.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mary Grace Potter

      • Date: June 19, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Mary Grace Potter, founding director of the Visitor Information and Associates’ Reception Center, 1971–2000, established and led the unit responsible for providing information to Smithsonian members and the public by mail, telephone, and in person. In 1978, Potter won the first annual Robert A. Brooks Award for Excellence in Administration. #Groundbreaker

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      Flickr Visitor Profile: Penny Richards

      • Date: May 29, 2009
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_680" align="alignleft" width="159" caption="Flickr member, Penny L. Richards"][/caption] I work with people across the Smithsonian to add photos to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons photostream. Occasionally, something stands out in the daily summary of comments and tags I receive. Sometimes, it’s an exchange between Flickr members sparked by a single

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    21. Smithsonian 150th Anniversary Logo, 1996. Image no. SIA2019-006021. Accession 97-069: Office of the Secretary, 150th Anniversary Program Records, 1992-1996, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Design in Archives: 150 going on 175

      • Date: August 29, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: 2022 will mark the Smithsonian's 175th Anniversary. In honor of that, we're taking a look at what some of the design work went into making the Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary celebration happen.

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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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