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      Digital Humanists Dive Into Archives

      • Date: August 3, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Bloggers on The Bigger Picture often describe how, in the course of their work, they come across intriguing archival objects and artifacts that trigger new insights into history. “Hands on” encounters with compelling evidence from the past are thrilling and can be provocative. But so can different sorts of encounters, including those that are driven by data, rather than

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      Revisiting the Construction of the Freer Gallery of Art

      • Date: September 29, 2016
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Some new insights from the construction records of the Freer Gallery of Art, celebrating 100 years since groundbreaking.

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      Link Love: 8/19/2011

      • Date: August 19, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: It’s an old fashioned card catalogue full of jokes! The National Museum of American History gives insight into Phyllis Diller’s “gag file”—50,000 annotated jokes featured in a new exhibition at the museum. How are institutions preserving born digital art? Here’s an article about Rhizome’s ArtBase—an archive of digital artworks [via the National Digital Information

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      For All the World to See

      • Date: February 10, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE.

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    9. Translation of the Prize Questions in the Class of Sciences from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium (page 1) , 1874, Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium, Record Unit 32, Box 1, Folder: Miscellaneous 37, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2014-04186.

      The Mysterious Miscellaneous 37

      • Date: May 13, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: It is too hard to know everything that lives inside an archival collection. Join us in opening up some of our miscellaneous folders and discover what is inside!

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      Sybil Hamlet’s History of the National Zoo

      • Date: May 17, 2018
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Did you know that the first beaver came to the National Zoological Park in 1894? Or that the first animals on the official zoo grounds were two Indian Elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust? Surely, you knew that the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok donated an albino Asiatic turtle to the National Zoo in 1966? You didn’t know that? Well, thanks to the work of Sybil Hamlet in 1985, you can now

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    13. The top half of a yellowed parchment sheet is shown, covered densely with dark brown ink. A passage is highlighted in yellow, reading “She the said Henrietta Maria Walker by virtue and in pursuance of the Power and Authority reserved and given to her in and by the said recited Indenture of Release and Settlement of the thirteenth of July One thousand seven hundred and sixty nine and of all and every other Power and Powers Authority and Authorities to her belonging in her vested”.

      Enduring Mysteries of the Hungerford Deed

      • Date: December 3, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Much has been learned and uncovered about the Hungerford Deed—but what is still out there to learn? Dig in with us to explore a few of these unanswered questions!

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      A Champion for Libraries and Archives: Ching-hsien Wang

      • Date: May 26, 2022
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In their efforts to document the history of computing at the Smithsonian, volunteers are interviewing former staff to preserve their stories and experiences. Ching-hsien Wang was a force that helped libraries and archives make their collections accessible online and here are some early excerpts from our interview with her.

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      What He Wrote and Where He Wrote It

      • Date: December 15, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Salman Rushdie's archives, featured in an Emory University publication, by Georgia Popplewell, Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic."][/caption] Back in October I talked—with great interest and at length—with Anne Van Camp, director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, about the various

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    19. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018

      • Date: December 27, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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      New Identification of Scopes Trial Photos—Thanks to You!

      • Date: August 11, 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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      Growing a National Museum – the Curators’ Annual Reports

      • Date: May 19, 2016
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.

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