{"id":42400,"date":"2020-03-20T07:46:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T11:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42400"},"modified":"2020-03-20T07:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T11:46:02","slug":"smithsonian-open-access-take-a-deep-radio-nostalgia-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/smithsonian-open-access-take-a-deep-radio-nostalgia-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian Open Access: Take a deep radio nostalgia dive!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Radio owned by Herman and Minnie Roundtree” (Source: Smithsonian Open Access)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Bal\u00e1zs Kov\u00e1cs, who shares the following announcement:<\/p>\n

[Check out the] Smithsonian Open Access<\/a>, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian\u2019s images\u2014right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections\u2014with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian\u2019s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Bal\u00e1zs points out, there are hundreds<\/em> of radio photos in the archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What a treasure trove! Since many of us are sheltering at home<\/a>, it’s the perfect time to take a deep dive into the SOA archive!\u00a0 Thank you for sharing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bal\u00e1zs Kov\u00e1cs, who shares the following announcement: [Check out the] Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian\u2019s images\u2014right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections\u2014with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,3,305,288],"tags":[1561,6897,4094,4091,7788,8381],"class_list":["post-42400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-archives","tag-balazs-kovacs","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-history","tag-smithsonian","tag-smithsonian-open-access"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-b1S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36721,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/balazs-spots-a-hallicrafters-in-the-walking-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":42400,"position":0},"title":"Bal\u00e1zs spots a Hallicrafters in “The Walking Dead”","author":"Thomas","date":"March 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bal\u00e1zs Kov\u00e1cs, who writes: Hi Thomas, Some radio fixing and a plan to create a radio connection between the survivor settlements in the latest (shocking) episode of The Walking Dead (S09E15): Very cool, Bal\u00e1zs--thanks for sharing! 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