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    1. Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag, Unidentified photographer

      Top 10 Photos on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons

      • Date: July 3, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: A profile of the top ten photos on the Smithsonian Flickr Commmons—from scientists to babies sent in the mail.

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      Let’s Play the Name Game: Identifying Women Scientists on the Flickr Commons

      • Date: April 12, 2012
      • Creator: Susannah Wells
      • Description: The Flickr Commons community helps the Archives identify images of Women in Science from our Science Service collections.

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      Let us know what you think about the new Smithsonian Commons

      • Date: July 13, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_7367" align="aligncenter" width="417" caption="Slide from Mike Edson, the Smithsonian's head of Web and New Media Strategy, Slideshare presentation on the Smithsonian Commons."][/caption] Just recently, the Smithsonian released a prototype of the Smithsonian Commons—a new part of the digital plan at the Smithsonian that aims to stimulate “learning,

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    7. Flickr users comment on a possible identification of a plant.

      Flickr Commons: Summertime Set from the Field Book Project

      • Date: June 26, 2012
      • Creator: Susannah Wells
      • Description: To ring in the summer months, the Field Book Project contributed a set of grasses and other plants photographed by Brazilian botanist, André Goeldi.

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      Records and Information Management Month: The Registrar

      • Date: April 23, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Did you know that April is Records and Information Management Month? What is records and information management? Glad you asked! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Dan Brown Books, by Federico Filacchione, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Information is collected data, thoughts, ideas, or memories. Records are documents that contain information

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    11. Barbour, Wortman, and Gidley on paleontological expeditions, 1900-1935.

      Link Love: 9/16/2011

      • Date: September 16, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Wired Science has great coverage of our recent “Field Book Lantern Slides” Flickr Commons set, complete with more information from the Smithsonian’s Thomas Jorstad, who works in the paleontology department at the National Museum of Natural History. Yeek! A Dust Archive (for real!) [via Marguerite Roby, SIA].

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      How Many Stamps Does it Take to Mail a Baby?

      • Date: June 16, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="221" caption="Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag, by Unidentified photographer, c. 1900, National Postal Museum."][/caption] Since the Smithsonian began uploading photos to the Flickr Commons, there have been some clear crowd favorites. The photo above, for example, is by far our most popular photo on the Flickr Commons,

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    15. A Huge Thank You (and update on DC Photo IDs)

      • Date: October 6, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: You may remember that just over a month ago, we asked for your help ID’ing the locations of early 1900s DC spots from our new Martin A. Gruber set on the Flickr Commons. Well, you all sure did deliver!

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      Thanks for your Help!: Women’s History Month Summary

      • Date: April 7, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Throughout the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives posted about interesting women from our collections in honor of Women’s History Month. Last month we asked for your help in identifying a new group of women we added to the Flickr Commons in honor of Women’s History Month.

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    19. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

      Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

      • Date: April 27, 2017
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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      Link Love: 6/18/2010

      • Date: June 18, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Arch Bridge, Keene NH, by Genuine Curteich, Chicago IL, Photographic postcard, Keene Public Library, Resource Identifier: hsykbrg008."][/caption] Wahoo! New folks on the Flickr Commons: The Reykjavik Museum of Photography and the Keene and Cheshire County (NH) Historical Photos. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA] This year is the

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      Can We Just Forget It?

      • Date: July 15, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Eraser, by Sarah McKenzie, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] An interesting story surfaced about a week ago, concerning an over-eager defense lawyer anxiously seeking to expunge not only governmental, but media archives, too, of potentially damaging information or previously published articles about a number

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