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  1. Flickr user Penny Richards helps identify image.

    Un-Locke the Mystery

    • Date: March 13, 2012
    • Creator: Susannah Wells
    • Description: Even with help from the dedicated Flickr Commons community, there are still many more images to identify in the Ruel Pardee Tolman Flickr set.

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  3. Black and white, slightly out of focus photograph of Lorentz and Einstein standing side by side out doors.

    Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

    • Date: May 8, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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  5. Seven volunteer standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a reading room.

    #MCN50 Conference Next Week

    • Date: November 7, 2017
    • Creator: Charles Zange
    • Description: Behind the archivists, technicians, and specialists of the museum field are an abundance of organizations that network ideas, connect professionals, and present new strategies to broaden the impact of museums (American Alliance of Museums, Society of American Archivists, etc.). Many associations focus on specific aspects of this dynamic field and help to push museum practice

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  7. Backmark - William L. Price

    Baby Got Backmark: A Closer Look at Card Photograph Mounts

    • Date: May 6, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: A look at the elaborate graphics photographers used to advertise their businesses on the backs of 19th century card mounted photographs.

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  9. Spencer and Mary Baird sit in chairs and Lucy Baird stands behind her father.

    Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter

    • Date: March 5, 2020
    • Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was

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  11. Color photograph portrait of woman smiling.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Catherine Eagleton

    • Date: March 15, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  13. Wild animals of Glacier National Park, 1918. Vernon and Florence Merriam Bailey. Courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library.

    Scientific Sweethearts: Research Couples in the Archives

    • Date: February 11, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look at the life and work of husband and wife Smithsonian scientists researching in the field.

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  15. animated round image of zebra running and monkey swinging from tree

    Link Love: 7/14/2017

    • Date: July 14, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Perfect fodder for animated gifs; zootropes. [via Unfunk]Send SFMOMA a text and it will respond with art! [via SFMOMA]Eerie plaster casts of people and animals in their final moments before being buried in Pompeii. [via Atlas Obscura]Weighing newborn babies wasn't "a thing" until the 20th century. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]Archives Unleashed

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  17. The Bride Wore White (or Blue, Green, or Black!)

    • Date: July 16, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="271" caption="Untitled, by unidentified photographer, date unknown, Anacostia Community Museum."][/caption]Wedding season is upon us, and so it is no wonder that this beauty, with her frothy veil and layers of lace has been very popular on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons.

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  19. Earth by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

    Link Love: 12/25/2015

    • Date: December 25, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Keep it in perspective: a new view of earth by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. [via Info Docket]A digital re-creation of the 1796 Shakespeare Gallery from the University of Texas at Austin's online project, What Jane Saw. [via Hyperallergic]For locals, a little bit of history on the DC street names...and why there's no J street. [via Ghosts of DC]The evolution of toy

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  21. Link Love: 10/23/2020

    • Date: October 23, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Carol O’Donnell

    • Date: November 4, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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