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    1. Andrew with a small otter on his shoulder.

      Otterly Awesome Otter Day Post

      • Date: May 20, 2021
      • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
      • Description: Taking time to appreciate these mustelids is something we otter do.

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      Come Fly With Me

      • Date: October 21, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      There will always be a photography

      • Date: July 14, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="303" caption="Photographer holding large folding camera, by unidentified photographer, c. 1935, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] Recently photography has said goodbye to two industry icons. Polaroid stopped production of its instant film, and Kodak announced that it is

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      The Camera Loved Einstein

      • Date: July 9, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Portrait of Albert Einstein and Others (1879-1955), Physicist, by unidentified photographer, 1931, Smithsonian Institution Libraries."][/caption] This post is second in a series that highlights some of our most popular photos on the Flickr Commons. This photo of Einstein pictured with a group of intellectuals is one of

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    9. A group of people hold up “welcome” signs at an entrance of the National Museum of American History.

      We Apologize for the Inconvenience: Shutting Down the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 14, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: In 2019, the Smithsonian faced the repercussions of the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown, but the institution is no stranger to the dreaded furlough.

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    11. Image of yellow pencils at different stages of sharpening on mechanical belt.

      Link Love: 1/19/2018

      • Date: January 19, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: These photos just make you want to write solely in pencil. [story on one of America's last pencil factory via NY Times]It's hard to believe the Flickr Commons, a space in Flickr for archival photo collections, is 10 years old. [via Library of Congress]Scientists, including a fellow from our National Museum of Natural History, Ligiane Moras, have identified two new species of

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    13. Six women pose for a photograph. The photo is dated 8-31-30. The names of the women are written in cursive below the photo.The include: Louise A. Rosenbusch, Louise Pearson, Narcissus Smith, Helen A. Olmsted, Nellie Smith, and Margaret W. Moodey.

      Depression-Era Pen Pals: A Correspondence Between Two Hard-Working Women

      • Date: January 7, 2020
      • Description: Ruth B. MacManus and Gertrude Brown bonded over their heavy workloads and shared experiences as working women in the Great Depression. Together, they helped improve a publication that does not bear their names: the Smithsonian Scientific Series.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Stuff Matters

      • Date: September 3, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Science Service photographs, while having good identifying information, can still be helped by the cybercommunity to fill in some of the mission information.

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    17. Ruderman family photo, 1900

      Archiving Family Traditions

      • Date: December 10, 2013
      • Description: Holiday family traditions are some of the things that people look forward to throughout the year. For my family, that would be the annual Christmas party. This is an unusual tradition in a Jewish family that emigrated from Russia at the turn of the 20th century.That's my Grandmother, Sally, on the lower left, her 4 brothers and sisters and her mother. It was her younger

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      “Love, Doris”

      • Date: March 12, 2020
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: While digitizing the collection of Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake, I discovered a treasure trove of correspondence that sheds light about growing up as a young woman in the mid-20th century and the story of an intimate mother-daughter relationship.

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    21. Two graphics of one large and one small folder. The color of the top of the folder is small but the lower later reveals a map.

      World of Maps Project - Preventive Conservation Actions

      • Date: February 26, 2019
      • Description: Explore our interns’ new techniques for preservation of maps at NMNH: a map transportation tool, a rehousing plan, and training for volunteers.

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      Too Many to Count

      • Date: September 24, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, c. 1890, Smithsonian Institution Archives."][/caption] One of the things people often want to know about photography at the Smithsonian is, “How many photographs do you have?” with the quick follow-up, “Have you counted all of them?” No one knows for certain, but statistical sampling suggests

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