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.
As a tribute to Toni Morrison, archivist Allison Hughes shares some highlights from her time processing the author’s papers at the Princeton University Library. [via Allison Hughes]
The Science History Institute recounts how a debate about milk in tea (and tea in milk) revolutionized experimental design. [via Science History Institute]
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The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. has digitized two collections of D.C. street photography! [via Emily Niekrasz]
If you can't get enough of small appliances, the Hagley Library has digitized the professional papers of a 20th-century industrial designer. [via Hagley Library]
A web app to speed up your scholarly reading is now in beta! [via the Scholarly Kitchen]
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A climate change initiative at the National Museum of Natural History is soliciting ginkgo leaves from the public. [via Smithsonian]
Paleontologists recently identified fossilized bird bones as Heracles inexpectus, or Squawkzilla, a giant parrot. [via NPR]
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Clik here to view.![Yellow-Headed Amazon Parrot, 1920, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 14-167 [NZP-0734].](http://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-NZP-0734/full/450,/0/default.jpg "Yellow-Headed Amazon Parrot, 1920, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 14-167 [NZP-0734].")
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