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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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Rural Letter Carrier in Sleigh

from Smithsonian Institution

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

Photograph of rural carrier in automobile at mailboxes

from Smithsonian Institution

Shawn Wolfe said:
Wow. He's got chains on those rear wagon wheels. Amazing that we still use them a hundred years later.
Peter D. Tillman said:
Added to
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Free_Delivery

Thanks for posting these!
Миша Погребинський said:
This "electric-motored vehicle" looks more like Iternational Harvester Highwheeler.