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    The Camera Loved Einstein

    • Date: July 9, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Portrait of Albert Einstein and Others (1879-1955), Physicist, by unidentified photographer, 1931, Smithsonian Institution Libraries."][/caption] This post is second in a series that highlights some of our most popular photos on the Flickr Commons. This photo of Einstein pictured with a group of intellectuals is one of

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  3. Fern on Graduation Day, 1952, Rathe Family Collection.

    Fern P. Rathe: Navigating the Lab and the Skies

    • Date: December 17, 2013
    • Description: An update on the life and career of chemist and pilot Fern P. Rathe, featured in the Women in Science Wednesday post on July 17, 2013.

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  5. Smithson’s Crypt in Genoa, Italy, Prematio Studio Fotographico (Genova, Italy), 1897, Smithsonian Institution Archives, negative # 82-3195.

    Happy Birth Year, Mr. Smithson

    • Date: November 17, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: 2015 is the 250th anniversary of James Smithson’s birth. Although we don’t know the day of his birth, this year we are celebrating his birthday.

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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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    Look Again

    • Date: April 1, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="View of Canyon, 1873, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Black and white photoprint on cardboard mount, National Anthropological Archives, SPC Sw Gen NM 113605 01861700, Local Number: NAA INV 01861700."][/caption] I paid another visit to the Timothy O’Sullivan exhibition now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a

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    NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Facility Marks 10 Years

    • Date: December 12, 2013
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: NASM’s Udvar-Hazy facility celebrates its 10th anniversary.

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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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  15. An open book with handwritten notes. The heading on both pages is

    New Year, Same Field

    • Date: January 31, 2019
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Explore the different ways that scientists celebrated New Year’s during field trips abroad.

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  17. Breann Young applying 20% Lascaux 498HV in isopropanol to the spine of the William Dall field book,

    Paper Painting: Using Acrylics to Repair Leather Bindings

    • Date: August 7, 2014
    • Description: In paper conservation, it’s not just about the paper. Here I’ll explain the process in using acrylic paint and adhesive to repair the leather bindings of field books.

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    Picturing Infinity: The Hubble Telescope’s Universal View

    • Date: May 11, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_827" align="aligncenter" width="242" caption="Spacecraft Hubble: Hubble in Flight, 2007, NASA"][/caption] Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. Welcome Joseph Caputo, intern at the Smithsonian Magazine. In April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was dropped off 353 miles above

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    The Saint Augustine Monster

    • Date: August 18, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: What was the Saint Augustine Monster? According to Wikipedia, it was a globster—“an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.” This great-grandaddy of globsters kept cryptozoologists speculating and scientists testing for a century—and a piece of it lives at the Smithsonian. The St. Augustine monster was discovered by two

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  23. 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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