Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="214" caption="Neighborhood Map (Hopkins, 1887), Hand-colored neighborhood map, Office of the Surveyor Map Collection, Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs."][/caption] Looks a lot cooler than it sounds: the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs will post more than a century’s worth of beautiful maps to Flickr [via Effie
Description: Headed to DC soon? Leave your thoughts at the National Museum of American History’s TalkBack Board, and then whether you’re in the capital or elsewhere, tune into the NMAH’s Twitter feed for #TalkBackTuesdays, where they’ll feature the best questions and comments from the board. The Museum of Photographic Arts has just joined Flickr Commons, and their photos include some
Description: Several weeks ago a brown box full of photographs arrived at “The Smithsonian.” Now being that “The Smithsonian” is actually made up of many museums and research centers, this brown box was circulated through several offices before I finally got the call to see if it was something that I wanted. Usually the Smithsonian would rather not receive unsolicited donations. Though,
Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="254" caption="Untitled (In the Movie House Watching "Haunting of Hill House"), ca. 1950, Weegee, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase, 1988.45."][/caption] Weegee on news photography: “I will walk many times with friends down the street and they'll say, ‘Hey, Weegee. Here's a drunk or two drunks
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="269" caption="First Lady of the Land, First Lady of the Air, by John Roosevelt, c. 1936, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center"][/caption] One of the things I love about working at the Smithsonian is spending my days typing keywords into our search engines and seeing what kind of images will