Smithsonian Institution

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Welcome to the Smithsonian Institution! The Smithsonian is happy to join the Flickr community. We look forward to your tags, comments, and general participation in this new venture. We will be adding more photos on a regular basis and hope you will often return to visit us. The Smithsonian and Photography Photography predates the founding of the Smithsonian by just a few years. The introduction of various photographic processes in the 1830s culminated in the development of the daguerreotype in 1839. From its founding in 1846, the Smithsonian adopted the camera to advance its mission, cataloging plant and animal species and documenting the grandeur of the American landscape and the continent’s original inhabitants. Photography brought the faraway near and made visible the previously invisible. Many of our photographs also serve as a historical record of the growth of the Institution.

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Brown Booby #22, one day old, Kure Atoll (undated).

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  • oaza_spokoju said:
    poor chick :/
  • Manoj kumar said:
    So Cute... www.entertaindemand.com
  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ January 15, 2024
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!
  • Ian Betley said:
    Congrats on Explore! ❤📷❤ lovely image! regards.

Wanda G. Bradshaw

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  • Pegster22 said:
    Love the glasses! :)
  • Andrei Radu said:
    Good work
  • Lauren said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Heroines, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • cherilynhannen said:
    love the glasses too but they cat's-eye glasses not horn-rimmed I got them also but in black after looking for them for years...wish I knew how to upload pictures I'd take a picture of me in the black cat's-eyes and upload it for y'all to see email me if y'all think it's a good idea Cherilyn cherilynhannen@yahoo.com
  • cherilynhannen said:
    wonder if she still alive?????!!!….I got silver cat's-eye glasses from Etsy....I have a picture I took of me in them y'all go to cat's eye glasses it's there...sorry about my hair being unkempt I had just woken up from a nap

left to right: Norman R. F. (Raymond Frederick) Maier (1900-1977), Nathan M. Glaser (d. 2011), and Barbara Jean Sherburne (Stewart) (b. 1914)

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  • Mr. Happy Face - Peace :) said:
    Lovely Photo . Well Taken


    Congrats on such a brilliant HM shot!
    HM MEMBER AWARD
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    (Post 1 - Award 3 within the page 1)
  • Daniela Teixeira said:
    I am very happy to see this photo of my beloved uncle, Dr. Nathan M. Glaser! This is the person from whom I have learned so much throughout my life and career. He was a friend and a teacher. He married my aunt, a Brazilian nurse in Chicago. He was an extraordinary person, a wonderful heart, who was absolutely passionate about life and science. We would spend hours and days talking about his experiences thru psycology and education, as well as the history his eyes have witnessed during his life, WWII experiences treating soldiers traumas from war, and it mesmerized me eveytime he would tell us the remarkable details of history back on those days. As unique his personality was, he asked to be burried in Brazil with our family. He is dearly remembered and always missed!

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