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    6 oct.

    Please join us in welcoming Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty as the inaugural director of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives! Coming from Cornell University Library, Evangelestia-Dougherty will begin her appointment on November 6th:

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    hace 10 horas

    in 1926 the first Winnie-the-Pooh book was published! This is a frieze for a children's room. It contains all of the original illustrations from the chapter called Christopher Robin’s Exposition to the North Pole—and is hella cute.

    Winnie-the-Pooh and friends stand around a sign in a landscape of green, rolling, hills. The sky is blue with the hint of sunlight where the sky meets the ground at the lower right hand corner.
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  3. hace 17 horas

    Want to make sure your Halloween decorations are *super* realistic? Learn some of the distinctive characteristics of "white bronze", used to make 19th century gravestones and monuments. More from our Library trade literature:

    Side by side images of grave stone illustration and modern photograph of same type of stone.
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    13 oct.

    This is the very question that inspired our "What Our Experts Want You to Know About Digitization" blog post ➡️

    En respuesta a @evangelestia @SmithsonianArch @SILibraries
    "But why isn't it all digitized?"
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  5. 13 oct.

    seems like a pretty good time to dig into paleobiology resources 🦴 Explore our "Unearthed" blog series, featuring staff: And find the full book collection on :

    Black and white illustration of dinosaur skull.
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  6. 12 oct.

    It's no secret that our archivists know their stuff! And tomorrow you get to take advantage! and tag with your archives-related questions, big or small:

    GIF for Ask An Archivist Day. GIF on the top left is a box putting itself together on a cart. On the top, right pages turn over a cylinder. On the bottom left is a view of slide storage. On the bottom, left are photo slides on thin racks in front of a light. At the center is the text: #AskAnArchivistDay @SmithsonianArch October 13, 2021.
    Tomorrow is Ask An Archivist Day! Have a burning question or need some advice? We're on it. Tag our account and use the hashtag to join the conversation. Be there or be ◼️.
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    12 oct.

    “At Home with the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives: Magnificent Obsessions” was presented in memory of Anthony John Mourek. The program was sponsored by his friends as a tribute to his collecting life and is now available on YouTube.

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    12 oct.

    Since she joined our staff in 2019, curator Elizabeth Harmon has been working to create a better record of women in science at the Smithsonian. This , read about her work and a few of the women groundbreakers at the Institution →

    A woman stands in a lab. The text on the photograph reads: "Equipment for determining wave-length effects on the growth of algae.
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  9. 12 oct.

    Some of the earliest women in science at worked for the as "computers", including Florence A. Graves, Gladys T. Bond, & Nancy Prichard. For , learn more about their work: 📸 94-4430

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    12 oct.

    Don't miss this amazing webinar with and author Dava Sobel today @ 2pm ET to learn more about how Harvard's 20th c. "women computers" fundamentally influenced the field of astronomy. ✨ Details and registration ⬇️

    The cover of Dava Sobel's book, The Glass Universe. The title is in white letters with a blue background.
    Today at 2PM ET! We'll be hearing from , the author of the 2016 book The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. Register here:
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  11. 11 oct.

    "Anpao Kin" ("The Daybreak") is a Sioux newspaper digitized by request of the Shakopee Mdewakanton. Originally created to describe missionary work, modern researchers can find Native American biographical information, linguistics:

    Late 19th century newspaper in Sioux language.
    Late 19th century newspaper in Sioux language.
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  12. 10 oct.

    🦑 It's and we are trying hard not to make a Squid Game joke. Instead, inkjoy these colorful illustrations from the mollusk volume of "Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe" (1833). In :

    19th century natural history illustration of squid.
    19th century natural history illustration of squid.
    19th century natural history illustration of squid.
    19th century natural history illustration of squid.
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    10 oct.

    5 women and two-spirit people on what Indigenous Peoples’ Day means to them

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  14. 9 oct.

    Happy Birthday to artist Harriet Hosmer, born in 1830. The sculptor spent most of her career in Italy & became known for her Neoclassical style. 🖼️"Eminent women of the age" (1868): Learn more from :

    Black and white portrait of woman with curled hair and bow tie.
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    8 oct.

    Who has eight arms and is excited for ? This Octoupus vulgaris was documented by Jean Baptiste Vérany in "Mollusques méditeranéens" in 1851, which is digitized in our . Look closely to see its rectangular pupils!

    Detailed illustration of an octopus with a bulbous head and twisty arms.
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    8 oct.

    This meet our cephalopod expert, Mike Vecchione.

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  17. 8 oct.

    Great opportunity to join our team and work with audiovisual materials!

    Reels in canisters on shelves. Each canister is labeled with a number and title. Though some are hard to read, a couple are clearly labeled "Smithsonian World." There are multiple types of canisters on the two visible shelves.
    We are hiring! The Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative (AVMPI) is looking for a Curator of Recorded Material to provide research and insight into audiovisual materials from the past 120 years across the Smithsonian. Salary: $72,750 to $94,581 Apply:
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    7 oct.

    Oh how we’ve missed colleagues running into our offices exclaiming, “Hey look at this cool thing I found!” We’ve got a live one, folks. As archivist Deborah Shapiro was searching through records of the Canal Zone Biological Area, later , she came across this beauty.

    Metal printing plate map of Barro Colorado Island. It is standing upright on a table.
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  19. 8 oct.

    Youch! Forgive our Friday morning typos! That's *naturalist and *cephalopods. May your coffee and spellcheck function better than ours!

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  20. 8 oct.

    🐙For , four examples by French naturalistt Alcide d'Orbigny. They're from "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des céphalopodes acétabuifères viants, et fossiles" (1835-1848), a book of cephalpods in :

    19th century book illustration of octopus.
    19th century book illustration of octopus.
    19th century book illustration of octopus.
    19th century book illustration of octopus.
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    19 ago.

    Join us for the 2021 Virtual Smithsonian Craft Show and Sale "Celebrating American Artistry" October 23 - 31, 2021 which includes 90+ of the country's top craft artists with individual online shops to benefit the Smithsonian

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