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    1. Link Love: 10/28/2011

      • Date: October 28, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    3. Here At The Smithsonian: The History of Aviation

      • Date: September 28, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Let’s take a look at some of the collections at the National Air and Space Museum.

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    5. Television and the Smithsonian: The Moon Party and "Instant History"

      • Date: November 27, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On July 20, 1969, television broadcasters and Smithsonian visitors joined in watching history in the making when astronauts stepped onto the Moon.

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    7. Wikipedians Hard at Work, Photo courtesy of Effie Kapsalis.

      Inside a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

      • Date: June 8, 2012
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Get an inside-look at a Wikipedia edit-a-thon and learn how you can volunteer for the Smithsonian even if you don't live nearby.

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      Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

      • Date: November 28, 2017
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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      Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian

      • Date: April 28, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals

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    13. Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects

      • Date: October 15, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.

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    15. 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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    17. Backmark - William L. Price

      Baby Got Backmark: A Closer Look at Card Photograph Mounts

      • Date: May 6, 2021
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: A look at the elaborate graphics photographers used to advertise their businesses on the backs of 19th century card mounted photographs.

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    19. Alexander Wetmore in Panama, 1947.

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

      • Date: April 26, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: A look at the characteristics of the thirteen individuals who have led the Smithsonian.

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      Mothers Day Inspiration

      • Date: May 9, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Get ready for Mother's Day with these images of Smithsonian staff and their families caring for young animals.

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      Records and Information Management: The Archivist

      • Date: May 6, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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