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Off with their Heads?: Matchbooks in Archives
I have a special spot in my heart for oddball items in the archives. When a colleague approaches me with a question such as: "Nora, we have artists' matchbooks! Should we remove them? Will they...
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Link Love: 5/3/2013
If you are in Washington, D.C. next week, you may want to check out musician Ian MacKaye's talk at the Library of Congress on personal digital archiving and the need to educate creators and users to...
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Mounting Photographs with Earth Magnets
Greta Glaser, Conservation Intern Among the photographic records (Record Unit 95 - Photographic Collection, 1850s- ) at the Smithsonian Institution Archives is a portrait of Charles Greeley Abbot, an...
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Highlight from the Photo Cold Vault: Gelatin Dry Plate Negatives
Eden Orlove, Contractor, Collections Care Division As a contractor at the Smithsonian Insitution Archives, I work with the photographic collections stored in our cold vault. Among the various...
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A new video from the Library of Congress profiles the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpepper, Virginia. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]Another awesome digitization...
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Happy National Train Day ! ! !
Happy National Train Day from the Archives ! ! !Related ResourcesPullman Digital Collection, Newberry LibraryMuseum of the American RailroadNational Railroad MuseumRelated CollectionsTrains,...
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Photo Sleuth: When the Evidence Doesn’t Add Up
What is a researcher to do when the historic caption contradicts the information in the historic photograph? Here at the Archives, we encounter this occasionally in our work and have to remember that...
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Weird and Wonderful: The Surprising Mrs. Hilda Hempl Heller
Rudi Bracaglia, Volunteer, Collections Care Division As an archival student and volunteer, I have been very fortunate to be able to work with the collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives....
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Link Love: 5/17/2013
At long last, the tale of how a California Gray Whale skeleton made it into the collections of the National Museum of Natural History. [via Smithsonian Science]The Library of Congress offers 50 digital...
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Happy Birthday USA!
Happy Birthday USA!PreviousPauseNext1 of 1Star-Spangled Banner, by Dane PenlandStar-Spangled Banner, by Dane Penland, 1983, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. 83-7221.Star-Spangled Banner in...
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