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      See Here: 7/23/2010

      • Date: July 23, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="The Postage Stamp Collection on display in pull out trays in the Arts and Industries Building, probably early in the twentieth century. Visitors are looking at various cases, Portrait paintings are visible overhead, 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285

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    3. 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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    5. Ruth M. Blackwelder sitting in a chair, taken by Richard E. Blackwelder. Accession 96-099: Richard E. Blackwelder Papers, 1926-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2015-002961.

      Who Was Ruth MacCoy Blackwelder?

      • Date: March 5, 2015
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Mystery who Ruth MacCoy Blackwelder may be solved once her journals go up on the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    7. Oil based portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt profile wearing a blue suit and tie, signed Secretary Roosevelt.

      Remembering the Exhibitions Celebrating the Centennial of FDR's Birth

      • Date: January 28, 2021
      • Description: In 1982, the Smithsonian Institution paid homage to the birth of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882, through six new exhibits.

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    9. Stamp depicting S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

      Miscellaneous Adventures: Fosberg

      • Date: November 17, 2016
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures dives into Raymond Fosberg’s research on the flora of Sri Lanka.

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      How Many Stamps Does it Take to Mail a Baby?

      • Date: June 16, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="221" caption="Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag, by Unidentified photographer, c. 1900, National Postal Museum."][/caption] Since the Smithsonian began uploading photos to the Flickr Commons, there have been some clear crowd favorites. The photo above, for example, is by far our most popular photo on the Flickr Commons,

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    13. 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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    15. Instructions for fingerprint animals from the Friend of the National Zoo publica

      Crafting from the Collections: Fingerprint Animals

      • Date: December 20, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Archives staff makes fingerprint animals based on craft activity found in zoo publication from 1970s.

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      Link Love: 9/29/2017

      • Date: September 29, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Our National Museum of African American History & Culture is getting a forever stamp October 13th! [via WUSA 9]Save the date: the Freer Sackler reopens October 14th and the are celebrating with a festival, IlluminAsia featuring projections on the building. [via DCist] Need your baby animal fix? The National Zoo has three baby critically-endangered dama gazelles, the latest

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    19. Portrait photograph of Ganz.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Cheryl R. Ganz

      • Date: May 26, 2021
      • 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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      Link Love: 6/5/2015

      • Date: June 5, 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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    23. Portrait of Darling. He is wearing a suit and tie and thick, round glasses.

      “Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth

      • Date: May 7, 2020
      • Description: Throughout his twenty-five years as a Science Service journalist, Frank Thone maintained an active correspondence with fellow scientists and conservationists. His letters in the Smithsonian Institution Archives both preserve his wit and offer a glimpse at the informal networking that helped shape how Americans perceived the natural world.

One of Thone’s correspondents was a

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