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    1. Color photograph of the National Postal Museum building taken from across the street.

      The National Postal Museum Still Delivers After 25 Years

      • Date: September 25, 2018
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: 25 years ago the National Postal Museum first opened its doors to the public.

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    3. The World Is Yours: Early Air Mail

      • Date: June 1, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from The World Is Yours episode “Early Air Mail” and its short reign under the United States Postal Service from 1916 to 1926.

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      See Here: 7/22/2011

      • Date: July 22, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The package containing the Hope Diamond is presented to Smithsonian Secretary Dr. Leonard Carmichael, The donor, Harry Winston, shipped the diamond through the regular United States Postal Service via first-class mail; the postage cost him $2.44, plus $142.85 for $1 million dollars worth of insurance, November 10, 1958,

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      See Here: 1/6/2010

      • Date: January 6, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Launching of Malcolm Forbes hot-air balloon on March 31, 1983 on the National Mall. Forbes offered his balloon, a replica of the Forbes chateau in France, for ceremonies dedicating the Postal Service's stamp commemorating 200 years of hot-air ballooning, by Richard K.

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      Soldiers and the Mail

      • Date: July 24, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="U.S. Troops Surrounded by Holiday Mail During WWII, by unidentified photographer, c. 1944, National Postal Museum"][/caption] It’s no wonder that this photo of soldiers sorting holiday mail is such a favorite on the Commons. It clearly tugs on the heart strings of those who know (or try to imagine) what it would be like

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    11. Four African American boys with three dogs and a bicycle in an alley cluttered with trash, by Robert S. Scurlock, color photoprint. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, image no. AC0618-002-0000003.

      Link Love: 8/7/2015

      • Date: August 7, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    13. Waiting at the Clinic—Hull House Neighborhood, by Lewis Hine.

      Take This Job & Shoot It!

      • Date: September 10, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    15. Washington Monument grounds ceremony at which Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, 1927.

      Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927

      • Date: February 2, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.

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    17. Greetings From Anywhere

      • Date: May 3, 2012
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: In honor of National Postcard Week May 6–12, 2012, explore postcards from the Archives and the Smithsonian’s collections.

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    19. Portrait of Carmichael. He is wearing a suit with a white handkerchief sticking out of the front pocket. He has a mustache. He is not smiling.

      Leonard Carmichael, Seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian

      • Date: July 7, 2022
      • Creator: Tatiana Swann
      • Description: Dr. Leonard Carmichael led the Smithsonian Institution through many changes during his tenure as the seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian. He presided over new museums and facility openings, special acquisitions, and exciting exhibitions. Because Carmichael was hired from outside of the Smithsonian, he brought a new perspective, his academic background, and skills to thrust

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      Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 13, 2016
      • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
      • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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    23. "The whole Smithsonian was like one big family . . . "

      • Date: March 12, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: For forty years, Miss Helena Weiss kept the Smithsonian running smoothly as a clerk, stenographer, director of the Office of Correspondence and Documents, and Registrar. When she retired, her position was divided into seven separate jobs.

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