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    1. Snow Day at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, December 10, 2013. Courtesy of the National Zoo.

      Link Love: 12/13/2013

      • Date: December 13, 2013
      • 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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    3. A man sits outside on a bench in front of Holt House. Overgrown greens cover the building.

      Archives Puzzles: Holt House History

      • Date: September 14, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This season, 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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    5. A sloth in a basket holds a woman's finger.

      The Substitute Mother

      • Date: January 20, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright

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    7. Link Love: 1/3/2020

      • Date: January 3, 2020
      • 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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    9. Link Love: 01/29/2021

      • Date: January 29, 2021
      • 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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    11. Demobilized women soldiers sent home, 1945

      Link Love: 9/9/2016

      • Date: September 9, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: New to the interwebs: a massive archive of 150 years of photography capturing Russian life from more than 40 institutions and collections. [via Hyperallergic]Nominate your favorite .gov website for the U.S. Federal Government End of Term Web Archive! [via The Signal, Library of Congress]Why save a computer virus, indeed?! [via The Conversation]Giant pandas are no longer

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      Link Love: 10/10/2014

      • Date: October 10, 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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      Donkeys and Alpacas and Cows Oh My!

      • Date: May 12, 2011
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Silver Fox Rabbit at the Kid's Farm, 2008, by Meghan Murphy, National Zoological Park. "][/caption] Five years in the making, the Kid's Farm at the National Zoological Park opened in June 2004.

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    17. U.S. service members raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan, on Feb. 23, 1945.

      Link Love: 5/6/2016

      • Date: May 6, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Marines are investigating a possible case of mistaken identity in the iconic WWII Iwo Jima photo. [via NPR]The little known history behind Cinco de Mayo. [via Smithsonian Magazine]A short film on the Smithsonian's incredible whale skeleton collection. [via Hakai Magazine]The Prelinger Archives has published 6600 public domain films to the Internet Archive! [via Open Culture]A

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    19. 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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    21. Female peep with plaid cape standing on seashore surrounded by fossils with black cliff and blue sky.

      Link Love: 3/30/2018

      • Date: March 30, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Women's History Month edition, continued!The story of fossil seller and paleontologist Mary Anning (for whom the "She Sells Seashells" rhyme was possibly written), in Peeps. [via The Last Word on Nothing]A look at the WWI Women's Land Army composed of "farmettes" who went outside the home to address the national food shortage. [via LOC Blog]For 25 cents an hour, less than

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    23. Love is in the Air, in the Field, and in the Lab

      • Date: February 14, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: In the past, we’ve talked about how families of Smithsonian researchers helped out with research, and some have even lived in the Smithsonian itself. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, it seems like love, too, has brought many couples together both at the Smithsonian and out in the field. Love, as you’ll see in the photos below, enabled some women to travel the world and get

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