Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="Stereo Images (Precipitating Snow) obtained using a Low Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope (LT-SEM) that is located in the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in the Electron Microscopy Unit, Beltsville Maryland, Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture."][/caption] We have old-school photos of snow at the
Description: Celebrating our 300th Link Love since 2010!Macro x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (MA-XRF) reveals ancient manuscripts reused as bookbindings! [via The Guardian]A historic moment - refugees form their own squad for this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. [via NPR]Get your color on with National Parks! [via National Park Foundation]Artist Bill Domonkos' archival remixes.[via
Description: Happy Holidays 2011 from the Smithsonian Institution Archives and the Smithsonian's Field Book Project, with a free printable card featuring penguins from our collections.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Intersection of Adelaide and Creek Streets, Brisbane 1893 flood, State Library of Queensland - Negative number: 61449, Courtesy Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] A huge donation and lots of new photos to browse: the State Library of Queensland donates 50,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons [via Resource Shelf]. Thoughts on why
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="366" caption="Alfred Duane Pell Collection of Ceramics and Furniture on display in the National Gallery of Art (NGA), now the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), at the United States National Museum (USNM) building, now known as the Natural History Building (NHB), c. 1930, by
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="A passenger pigeon Martha (named after Martha Washington), the last survivor of an American species that numbered in the millions prior to the 1880's, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914, Her body was donated to the Smithsonian Institution and brought to the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural
Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.
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