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Life and Liquor at “Leftover” Field
Blogs across the Smithsonian will give an inside look at the Institution’s archival collections and practices during a month long blogathon in celebration of October’s American Archives Month. See...
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HIDDEN IDENTITY, HIDDEN HISTORICAL TREASURE
On June, 28th, 1947 at the 38th annual NAACP Conference, Robert S. Scurlock took two photographs of an African American woman speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In the absence of an...
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Exhibition Records: Source for Discovering Hidden Treasures
Exhibition records contain files which document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of an exhibition. The material can include multiple versions of the exhibit script, brochures, press...
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Treasures From American Film Archives: Beautiful Japan
Blogs across the Smithsonian will give an inside look at the Institution’s archival collections and practices during a month long blogathon in celebration of October’s American Archives Month. See...
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Today is the Smithsonian Archives Fair!
Blogs across the Smithsonian will give an inside look at the Institution’s archival collections and practices during a month long blogathon in celebration of October’s American Archives Month. See...
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The Nut Lady
Being based in New York City, and ultimately working out of a studio not far from the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design, the Peter A. Juley & Son photography firm was routinely...
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Behind-the Scenes Volunteers: Hidden Treasures
What are HIDDEN TREASURES? Well, let’s break that down. Something that is HIDDEN can be out of sight, masked, cloaked, or behind something or someone else. A TREASURE can be something or someone...
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Game Night at the Museum
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The Monuments Men at the Archives of American Art
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Changing Perspective
Blogs across the Smithsonian will give an inside look at the Institution’s archival collections and practices during a month long blogathon in celebration of October’s American Archives Month. See...
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The Mystery of the Missing Crossfield Papers
Blogs across the Smithsonian will give an inside look at the Institution’s archival collections and practices during a month long blogathon in celebration of October’s American Archives Month. See...
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Hiding in Plain Sight
This year for American Archives Month, the Smithsonian highlights Hidden Treasures in its collections.I recently had my own encounter with a hidden treasure in the Archives of American Gardens—in this...
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As I was walking down the street one day...
As a visitor in NYC recently, briskly walking to keep pace with the throngs of commuters on Fifth Avenue, I came to an abrupt stop at number 597. A New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation plaque...
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What Happens When an Original Archival Collection is Hidden, but its Copy Is...
Blogs across the Smithsonian will give an inside look at the Institution’s archival collections and practices during a month long blogathon in celebration of October’s American Archives Month. See...
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Morris Louis: Looking Through the Eyes of Love
I recently spent a little time on a foray back into processing an archival collection (usually I am fully immersed in the Archives of American Art's oral histories). Rather serendipitously as soon as...
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Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Hidden Treasures: American Artists’...
Blogs across the Smithsonian will give an inside look at the Institution’s archival collections and practices during a month long blogathon in celebration of October’s American Archives Month. See...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: BASEBALL TOWN. HIDDEN TREASURE FROM A WASHINGTON WORLD SERIES
"World Championship Series / Washington vs. Pittsburgh". Scorecard from 1925 World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Pittsburgh Pirates.The Washington Nationals made it to the post...
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A rose by any other name
For a couple of years now I’ve contributed to this blog on behalf of the Human Studies Film Archives (HSFA). Today I’m penning this guest post from my new position as archivist for the Smithsonian...
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Sneak Peek from the Stacks: And now for the returns...
Department of Anthropology Pottery Lab, NMNH. Photo courtesy of Dave Rosenthal.No, I’m not referring to election returns. This month the National Museum of Natural History’s Department of Anthropology...
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Sneak Peek from the Stacks: A Voice from Harpers Ferry
Henrietta Leary Evans (1827–1908) was among the approximately one hundred men and women gathered at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, for the second annual meeting of the Niagara Movement, an African...
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