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    1. 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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      An Intern’s Perspective on Preserving Scrapbooks and Conserving Blueprints

      • Date: August 30, 2018
      • Description: Preservation intern discusses working with oversize materials in the Archives collection, including information on the creation of custom enclosures, surface cleaning of blueprints, and humidification.

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      Hot Topics in Archival Research: Summer 2017

      • Date: July 6, 2017
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: What does the Smithsonian Institution Archives collect? We say we hold records about the history of the Smithsonian and its people, programs, research, and activities. But this answer doesn’t quite do justice to the breadth and depth of our holdings.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you'll get into

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    7. The indenture during the local humidification and flattening stage. The portion featuring the seals has become completely detached. Photo courtesy of William Bennett.

      Breach of Contract: Repairing the Walcott Indenture

      • Date: March 17, 2016
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: See how we preserved a recent arrival to the Archives.

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    9. Aleš Hrdlička’s Measurement Chart of Harry Houdini

      Harry Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian II: Magic by Numbers

      • Date: February 2, 2012
      • Description: Details of a Smithsonian anthropometric measurement sheet made by physical anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička for escape artist Harry Houdini in 1926.

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    11. Summer School

      • Date: August 7, 2012
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: The Archives’ conservation lab hosts the FAIC "Master Studies" Workshop: "Conservation of Transparent Papers" with Hildegard Homburger.

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      A New Solution for an Old Scrapbook

      • Date: November 14, 2017
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: The Archives recently received several scrapbooks created by Elizabeth C. Reed during her husband's tenure as Director of the National Zoological Park (NZP). These scrapbooks contain information about noteworthy events and consist mostly of newspaper clippings gathered from newspapers around the country. Anyone who's attempted to preserve scrapbooks can tell you it's a bit of

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      A First Sight

      • Date: December 24, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_3939" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Prehistoric paintings, Lascaux caves, France. Photo courtesy of Prof saxx, Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] Roger Shattuck, teacher, writer, and cultural critic (The Banquet Years, his study of turn of the 20th century French avant-garde stands as one of the best cultural histories ever produced), once wrote

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    17. Fire at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, February 7, 2011.

      Hold your fire! Fire prevention in archives, museums, and libraries

      • Date: February 7, 2012
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: Discussion of fires and fire prevention in museums, libraries, and archives, with resources.

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    19. The broken joint and damaged headcap needed significant attention before the volume could be scanned safely. Courtesy of William Bennett.

      Minute by Minute: Preparing Board of Regents Records for Digitization

      • Date: September 10, 2015
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Take a look behind the scenes at the Archives as conservation staff prepares one of our important collections for digitization.

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