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🧩Happy Friday! To celebrate the end of the week, we've put together (taken apart?) five more digital puzzles from our collections! Find them on our blog: s.si.edu/30O33Vb

It's #LibraryPostcardMonday! Here is a postcard from the interior of the Sunnyside Public Library in Washington, mailed on Oct 17, 1917. bit.ly/2XI1c2X

It's #MarbledMonday! Today we recognize and celebrate marbling in the wild, this is the dictionary in our staff room that has its page edges decorated.

It's the final week of American Archives Month! When faced with mold, paper clips, and potentially radioactive records, archivists say the darnedest things. What's the "most archivist" statement you've ever said on the job? #ArchivesMonth #Archives #Archivists

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s passport application, #OTD, 1961. catalog.archives.gov/id/122674156?u…

adj. Sardonic: bitter or scornful mocking behavior. Syn. Sarcastic, derisive. Ant. Earnest, sincere. Ex: The sardonic professor was renowned for their sarcastic wit. #WednesdayWordsWithWatson

#ThrowbackThursday! Throwback to the 1880s when the second edition of "LA Cuisine Creole" was published. Here is a recipe for Green Corn on the Cob and Pumpkin with Salt Meat, a delicious fall meal.

Nation’s second oldest amusement park knows it can count on NSU Theatre and Dance students nsula.edu/nations-second…

Long before Christopher Columbus stepped foot on what would come to be known as the Americas, the expansive territory was inhabited by Native Americans. Take a look at some of the events that shaped Native Americans’ tumultuous history following the arrival of foreign settlers.

Hidden in today's 1948 gem of a #LetterheadOfTheWeek from the Ransford Pest Control Company, and found in our Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service holdings, is one epic bug battle!

n. Candor: being direct or plainly truthful in speech or actions. Syn. Frankness, sincerity. Ant. Deceit, obfuscation. Ex: The academic advisor was known and appreciated for their candor about course loads. #WednesdayWordsWithWatson

Henrietta Wood, a free woman of color living in Ohio, was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1853. #OTD in 1871, she sued her kidnapper for $20,000. An all-white jury awarded her $2,500. catalog.archives.gov/id/148721411?u…

#OnThisDay in 2008, Barack H. Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States and became the first Black president. #OTD

Colonel Haskell's Second Confidential Report on Russia [p. 1], #OTD, 1921 “Government now anxious repair mischief save peasants and hold their own jobs at any price stop” catalog.archives.gov/id/26465662?ut…

We ❤️ books more than a wee bit, but today's #ArchivesBookLove #ArchivesHashtagParty is a great time to highlight a beloved collection: miniatures! "Aunt Rose & Her Nieces", of the "Tiny Library" series, is one of a few dozen minis in our Dibner Library: s.si.edu/3o0hKw3

For #ArchivesBookLove we have Bishop Percy's Ballads and Romances in three volumes, published in the late 1860s. Who doesn't love a matched set, especially one this beautifully decorated? #ArchivesHashtagParty

Happy #MarbledMonday! Today we have the inside cover of Bishop Percy's Ballads and Romances, published in the late 1860s. In an unusual twist, the gilding detail on the inside cover is more intricate than that on the outside, more closely matching the spine than the cover.

n. Denizen: an inhabitant of an area or place. Syn. Resident, occupant. Ant. Visitor, guest. Ex. The students came to a particular study room in the library so often, the librarians thought of them as denizens rather than patrons. #WednesdayWordsWithWatson

The Watson Library will be closed this weekend and through next week in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will reopen at 2pm on Sunday, November 28th. #WhatsUpWithWatson