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  1. B&W photograph of Island with markers showing Eniwetok and Perry Islands

    Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!

    • Date: January 30, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping

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    It’s a (sea) Bird!

    • Date: August 16, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Enjoy a collection of images documenting pelagic birds from the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program.

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  5. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

    The Life Work of Smillie

    • Date: July 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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  7. View from LORAN tower on Sand-Johnston Island, including antenna supports, 1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2013-08810.

    A New Perspective from the Field Book Project

    • Date: October 18, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: We just launched a new set of images on Flickr Commons documenting the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey.

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    Don't Miss the Common Ground This Weekend!

    • Date: October 2, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: If you happen to walk by a museum or a library one evening this weekend, and there's a light on inside, or perhaps a flicker in the window, don't pass it by. There's a good chance that you stumbled on The Common Ground: a community curated meetup. The Common Ground gatherings are being hosted by museums and libraries around the world to celebrate The Commons on Flickr and the

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