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    Flickr Visitor Profile: Penny Richards

    • Date: May 29, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_680" align="alignleft" width="159" caption="Flickr member, Penny L. Richards"][/caption] I work with people across the Smithsonian to add photos to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons photostream. Occasionally, something stands out in the daily summary of comments and tags I receive. Sometimes, it’s an exchange between Flickr members sparked by a single

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    A New Look at Home Movies

    • Date: May 31, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="I have no hours in the day to watch TV/games. Don't let life go by!!, by National Media Museum, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] From 2002-2005, a unique archive of video tapes was compiled by the Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) at UCLA, with the goal of studying a relatively new social

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    Mapping the Moon

    • Date: May 19, 2009
    • Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of

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    SIA Acc. 15-177, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Space History Division, Subject Files, 1980-2014

    • Date: 1980 1980-2014
    • Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Space History Division
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Torch 12/1971

    • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1971 Box 1 Folder 12

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    Field Book Project

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      Torch 06/1975

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        Torch 06/1975

        • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1975 Box 1 Folder 6

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        Chemists in the Collections

        • Date: January 27, 2011
        • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
        • Description: Today was the kickoff of the International Year of Chemistry 2011, and so we wanted to take the chance to introduce you to some of the chemists from our collections featured on the Smithsonian’s Flickr Commons. Our Flickr Commons sets are filled with photos both of chemistry greats that even the non-scientifically inclined among us celebrated in grade-school textbooks, and

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      • Pink Scrapbook with Blank Cover, by pd_THOR, Creative Commons.

        Cut and Paste, Old Style

        • Date: September 13, 2011
        • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
        • Description: Some years back, and for what seemed like quite a while, people were talking about scrapbooking. As more aspects of everyday life were going digital, it felt like more and more people were paying homage to the paper-based mementoes of their experiences that appeared to be heading for oblivion. Quickly, and to support all the saving, trimming, and gluing that people were

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        The man, the myth, the lens

        • Date: May 17, 2010
        • Creator: Susannah Wells
        • Description: [caption id="attachment_6524" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Linsey Scott, Intern, and Michael Barnes, Photographer, from the Center of Scientific Imaging and Photography stand in front of the freshly remounted world-record Black Marlin that was caught in 1953 using 130 pound test line by Alfred C. Glascock, Jr."][/caption] I had the recent opportunity to sit down

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      • Eat more corn, oats and rye products, 1917, by L. N. Britton, U. S. Food Administration, World War I Posters, Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-2975.

        Smithsonian Staff Work Together to Help During World War I

        • Date: July 22, 2014
        • Description: A look at the often forgotten people you can find in archives and what we can learn from them.

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