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    Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Man! In a Raincoat!

    • Date: January 11, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4184" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Obama Billboard in Times Square, New York, January 7, 2010, Courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] Both the media and Times Square were aflutter recently over a photograph of President Obama used without permission on a huge two-sided billboard in midtown Manhattan to advertise men’s coats.

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    SIA Acc. 87-156, National Portrait Gallery (U.S.) Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records, 1975-1979

    • Date: 1975 1975-1979
    • Creator: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  5. O’Sullivan’s West and More

    • Date: February 26, 2010
    • Description: Framing the West is a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It features 120 of the extraordinary photographs Timothy O’Sullivan made for the King and Wheeler Surveys, two of the most important geological surveys of the western United States. The exhibition demonstrates not only the ability of the camera to capture the details of place, but the talent of

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  7. United States Navy Galapagos Expedition, 1942 : expense account and travel vouchers

    United States Navy Galapagos Expedition, 1942 : expense account and travel vouchers

    • Date: 1942 1942 1942
    • Creator: Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle), 1887-1977

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  9. Blog Post

    Down at the Drive-In

    • Date: August 4, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1679" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Untitled (Drive-In: Circle Theatre), Steve Fitch, 1976, Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection"][/caption] Media and transportation seem forever linked. As I wrote in a previous post, the portable camera and the bicycle made a very nice pairing in their early years at the turn of the 20th century.

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  11. Portraits of James A. Mahoney Jr. and Eugene Ostroff

    Portraits of James A. Mahoney Jr. and Eugene Ostroff

    • Date: 1966 May 1966
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution

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    Behind the Portrait: Frances Densmore and Mountain Chief

    • Date: April 28, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Mountain Chief, Chief of Montana Blackfeet, in Native Dress With Bow, Arrows, and Lance, Listening to Song Being Played On Phonograph and Interpreting It in Sign Language to Frances Densmore, Ethnologist, March 1916, by Harris & Ewing, Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] I received an interesting

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    SIA Acc. 11-289, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2011

    • Date: 2011
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  17. Secretary Samuel P. Langley, by Unknown, 1901, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, 2002-12172.

    Secretary Samuel P. Langley

    • Date: 1901
    • Creator: Unknown
    • Creator: Unknown

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  19. Blog Post

    Link Love: 4/15/2011

    • Date: April 15, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Congratulations to the main Smithsonian website, which has been nominated for a Webby Award in the category of Best Cultural Institution website! (Please go and vote.) Mark your calendars! The Library of Congress will be hosting the free public event, Pass it On: Personal Archiving Day, on Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m to provide the public with information about

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  21. From Titkana Peak Overlooking Hunga Glacier

    From Titkana Peak Overlooking Hunga Glacier

    • Date: 1913
    • Creator: Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927
    • Creator: Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927

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  23. Bow Valley and Mountain Mass Northwest of Lake Louise

    Bow Valley and Mountain Mass Northwest of Lake Louise

    • Date: 1909
    • Creator: Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927
    • Creator: Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927

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