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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Rural Letter Carrier in Sleigh

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  • 12 older comments, and then…
  • Polite Effect said:
    very nice work
  • Steep Spark said:
    Sure hope he has a hot water bottle to sit with...Merry Christmas indeed!
  • hobvias sudoneighm said:
    This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Delivering the Mail

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  • change your name said:
    good
  • allr1 said:
    Amazing how far we have come. Email what?

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1921

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  • Permissible Transport said:
    See a blog post featuring this photograph at THE BIGGER PICTURE.
  • Julie Lyn said:
    A "gift of radium"? No regifting that, I suppose.
  • cheerful wheel said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Fascination Nostalgia, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Just made a purse from this one:
  • Flickr Foundation said:
    Thank you for sharing this image with a free license. I've added it to her Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A8ne_Joliot-Curie

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
    ₪ HISTORY & MYSTERY ₪ SOCIETY
    (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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