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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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The last upload was July 2018.

Lucile Quarry Mann Feeding Tiger Cub, Babette uploaded July 2018
Marian H. Pettibone at Her Retirement uploaded July 2018
Mary Rice at Florida Marine Station's Lab uploaded July 2018
Mrs. Leila Forbes Clark Facing Camera uploaded December 2017
Waldo LaSalle Schmitt uploaded July 2017
Waldo L. Schmitt and Thomas E. Bowman examining a giant crab of Japan uploaded July 2017
Claudine Brown uploaded March 2016
Citizen Regent Jeannine Smith Clark uploaded March 2016
Sophie Lutterlough at a Microscope, 1983 uploaded March 2016
Amina Dickerson uploaded March 2016
Eva J. Pell uploaded February 2016
Shark, Pearl Islands, Panama, 3 March 1935 uploaded November 2015
Kingstown, Jamaica, leaving harbor, aboard SS Calamores(?), 24 January 1935 uploaded November 2015
Large swamp a few miles from La Jagua Hunting Club, 10 February 1935. (Rake catfish taken here) uploaded November 2015
Papaya or "Pepya". Note melon-like fruit attached to trunk of trees near top. Barro Colorado Island Laboratory, 5 March 1935. Name of Plant is "papayo". Name of fruit in Cuba is "fruta bomba." uploaded November 2015

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(left to right): Billington; Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan (1921-2006); Barbara Ireton (1932-1998); and Marguerite Rawalt (1895-1989)

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quixotic glass said:
Miserable looking bunch ! Chunky legs !
Smithsonian Institution said:
A venerable bunch of women's rights advocates! Anyone have any leads on Billington's first name (she's the one seated to the far left)? This is one of the new photos added to a set of images with unidentified or misidentified individuals in our "Science Service" and "Women in Science" sets. Catherine Shteynberg Smithsonian Institution Archives
kel5254 said:
That's my great grandmother! Barbara Ireton
leilaporreca said:
That's my grandmother Barbara Ireton
Smithsonian Institution said:
Thank you both for getting in touch! I am certainly interested in learning more about your grandmother, Ms. Barbara Ireton. If you're willing, please feel free to send us an email or reply back with a lighthearted anecdote. All the best, Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives