Description: There are several ways to date postcards that are seemingly undated. This page provides a few general methods for determining a time period or date for postcards.GENERAL POSTCARD CHRONOLOGY[edan-image:id=siris_sic_13846,size=250,left]Postcard producers printed cards that followed the current trends of postcards. Dates can be approximated by the material and design of a
Description: A highlight of a series of creative writings inspired by photographs from the Smithsonian Flickr Commons and published at the online journal, Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure.
Description: In November, Smithsonian Institution Archives moved over 3 million photographic negatives to a new state of the art facility at the Smithsonian Institution Support Center (SISC) in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Description: Born in 1829 to free black parents along the border between Maryland and the District of Columbia, Solomon Galleon Brown would become, at age 23, the first black employee of the Smithsonian. Starting out as a laborer in the Exchange Office, he ultimately became the personal assistant of Spencer Baird, the second secretary of the Smithsonian. By the time of his 1904 retirement,