packages
13 photos tagged packages, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.
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- christmas
- christmasacrossthecommons
- mailacrossthecommons
- libraryofcongress
- xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
- smithsonianinstitution
- men
- vintage
- 1910s
- usps
- holiday
- postoffice
- nationalpostalmuseum
- shopping
- america
- usa
- postalservice
- post
- parcels
- presents
- usmail
- sign
- working
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- The Library of Congress
- Smithsonian Institution
- SMU Libraries Digital Collections
- State Library of Queensland
- Nationaal Archief
- National Science and Media Museum
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Arrival of Santa Claus at the Lady Musgrave Sanatorium, Shorncliffe, Queensland from State Library of Queensland uploaded November 2024
[Worker Transporting Packages, Texas & Pacific Railway Company] from SMU Libraries Digital Collections uploaded February 2014
[Air Express, # 015T] from SMU Libraries Digital Collections uploaded March 2013
Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen (b. 1918) with her children from Smithsonian Institution uploaded March 2012
Photograph of damaged packages [that] slow up the mail service from Smithsonian Institution uploaded October 2009
Dead letter department's sale of Christmas bargains (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded July 2009
Kerstinkopen doen from Nationaal Archief uploaded December 2008
U.S. Troops Surrounded by Holiday Mail During WWII from Smithsonian Institution uploaded December 2008
Two men on the deck of a ship from National Science and Media Museum uploaded August 2008
Loading airmail in New Brunswick, New Jersey from Smithsonian Institution uploaded June 2008
British Parcels Post-sorting parcels for foreign mail (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Christmas Mail (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Christmas shoppers (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Conversations
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Kerstinkopen doen
from Nationaal Archief
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quarrelsome tin said:
leuk kleuren :)
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Rob Hooft said:
Translation: Christmas presents. Studio photograph. The last Christmas shopping; The Netherlands, 1961
Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen (b. 1918) with her children
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pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
Her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodil_Schmidt-Nielsen Her father was a Nobel laureate (1920, Physiology/Medicine). Here's her house (scroll down) from 1958-1964, in Durham NC: www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/sprinkle.htm
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pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
Of the children: Mimi (1947-1984) died in her thirties from complications related to epilepsy; there is a fund in her memory at Carolina Friends School: www.cfsnc.org/page.cfm?p=902 Bent (b. 1944) is on the technical staff at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in San Diego, and an external collaborator on the Mind Machine Project at MIT; he seems to do work on speech recognition interfaces: www.merl.com/people/?user=bent www.mindmachineproject.org/ Astrid (b. 1941) is also a scientist interested in speech perception and cognitive processes, working at the Office of Naval Research: gamma.cs.unc.edu/events/workshops/wihave-02/speakers/asn.... www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Schm...
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pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
Astrid's t-shirt is for this camp (still operating): www.enf.org/
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Smithsonian Institution said:
pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) Thank you for adding profiles of the family! And I love the Eagle's Nest camp link. Fun fact. Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives