3,308 photos
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Photograph of postcard of prize dog team in the Arctic
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- Date taken: 2009-10-13 12:24:49
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-19
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, dogteam, dogsled, arctic, 1911, postal, postcard, dogs, cold, snow, alaska, sledmail, earlymailservicwildernessmail, musher, alaskanmail, nationalpostalmuseum
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Photograph of postcard of rural carrier H.O. Carson in gig
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- 11 favorites
- 14,492 views
- Date taken: 2009-10-13 12:06:45
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-19
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Photograph of airmail pilot Charles Ames
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- 6 favorites
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- Date taken: 2009-10-13 12:22:04
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-14
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, man, portrait, cap, collar, mustache, moustache, sepia, 1924, pilot, aviation, aviator, airmail, pennsylvania, crash, blackandwhite, fur, tie, furcoat, 1930s, charlesames, airmailservice, photograph, hat, nationalpostalmuseum, ames, airmailpilot, usmail, usairmail, movember, charleshaydenames, charleshames, chames
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Photograph of airmail pilot Earl F. Ward
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- 20,869 views
- Date taken: 2009-10-13 12:26:45
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-14
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, man, portrait, airmail, pilot, aviation, aviator, cap, moustache, mustache, sweater, button, 1924, ward, goggles, aviators, aviatorscap, flyinggoggles, nationalpostalmuseum, earlfward, earlward, efward, usairmail, usmail, airmailpilot, movember
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Photograph of airmail pilot Shirley J. Short
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- 7 favorites
- 17,244 views
- Date taken: 2009-10-13 12:19:33
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-14
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, man, portrait, cockpit, goggles, cap, collar, short, 1921, airmail, pilot, aviation, aviator, dehavilland, dehavillanddh4, dehavillanddh4b, dh4, dh4b, shirley, sjshort, sepia, sj, aero, plane, nationalpostalmuseum, shirleyjshort, shirleyshort, usairmail, airmailpilot
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Photograph of airmail planes at Omaha, Nebraska
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- 8 favorites
- 14,487 views
- Date taken: 2009-10-13 12:06:19
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-19
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, aviation, aircraft, airplane, biplane, airmail, omahanebraska, omaha, usmail, usairmail, uspostalservice, dehavilland, dehavillanddh4, dehavillanddh4b, dh4, dh4b, douglasaircraftcompany, douglasaircraft, dac, douglas, westernairexpress, douglasm2, wae, boeingairtransport, boeingairplanecompany, boeing, bat, boeing40, boeingmodel40, b40, boeingmodel40a, boeing40a, b40a, msn896, cn896, c285, nc285, hangar, planr, blackand, white, planes, parkedplanes, biplanes, 1924, nationalpostalmuseum
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Photograph of letter carriers in Concord, New Hampshire
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- 14 favorites
- 21,704 views
- Date taken: 2009-10-13 12:06:35
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-19
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, men, mustache, moustache, standing, uniform, group, eleven, outdoors, concord, newhampshire, mail, carriers, workers, postal, work, working, satchels, postoffice, 1889, lettercarriers, post, nationalpostalmuseum, retro1
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Brier Hill [slide]
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- 15 favorites
- 17,327 views
- Date taken: 2007-09-20 11:33:48
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-26
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, formalgarden, lawn, walkway, bench, outdoors, ocean, bodyofwater, lake, trees, yard, fence, flowers, garden, edwardvanaltena, yorkandsawyer, archivesofamericangardens
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Negative
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- 2 comments
- 9 favorites
- 19,276 views
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-23
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, dickking, potawatomi, parryislandontario, 1928, club, nationalmuseumoftheamericanindian
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Print
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- 2 comments
- 12 favorites
- 11,066 views
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-23
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, hat, jimtubby, stickball, choctaw, mississippi, 1908, bandolier, neshoba, scottcounty, nativeamerican, indian, nationalmuseumoftheamericanindian
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Print
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- 2 comments
- 9 favorites
- 15,123 views
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-30
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, three, men, woman, standing, outdoors, costume, regalia, dance, spear, cap, hair, cormorant, vancouverislandgroup, 1938, britishcolumbia, saanish, nationalmuseumoftheamericanindian
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Negative
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- 2 comments
- 49 favorites
- 18,694 views
- Date taken: 2006-09-13 15:00:02
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-30
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, hiding, mask, boy, frown, nationalmuseumoftheamericanindian
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Negative
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- 2 comments
- 24 favorites
- 13,647 views
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-23
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, theodoraoctaviadenniscook, pamunkey, nationalmuseumoftheamericanindian
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Print
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- 2 comments
- 9 favorites
- 16,496 views
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-23
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, wood, masks, stebbins, display, cases, dugout, nationalmuseumoftheamericanindian
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Wedgetail Shearwater #47, 7 days old, Kure Atoll (undated).
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- 2 comments
- 17 favorites
- 22,408 views
- Date taken: 2013-07-19 15:11:08
- Date uploaded: 2013-08-05
- Tags: smithsonianinsitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, chick, bird, ornithology, wedgetail, 1960s, kure, atoll, scale, measurement
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Cocktail recipe from the journal of Paul Bartsch, 1914
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- 2 comments
- 9 favorites
- 11,686 views
- Date taken: 2012-05-31 12:23:07
- Date uploaded: 2012-09-24
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Primate and tiger cub photographed during the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies, 1937
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- 2 comments
- 106 favorites
- 25,813 views
- Date taken: 2012-04-19 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2012-09-24
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Constantine S. Rafinesque's Notes N. 17, pages 126 and 127, 1818
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- 54 favorites
- 21,622 views
- Date taken: 2012-04-19 08:46:13
- Date uploaded: 2012-09-24
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Remnant of an Explosion With a Powerful Kick?
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- 2 comments
- 40 favorites
- 28,330 views
- Date taken: 2011-04-06 13:24:10
- Date uploaded: 2012-04-11
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianastrophysicalobservatory, 201204, a2fp, univers
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Calytrocarya [sic]
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- 2 comments
- 22 favorites
- 10,217 views
- Date taken: 2012-04-04 16:11:03
- Date uploaded: 2012-06-20
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30 Doradus and The Growing Tarantula Within: A large region of star formation about 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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- 71 favorites
- 33,435 views
- Date taken: 2011-06-29 16:42:03
- Date uploaded: 2012-04-11
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Irrigation plant near Zacatecas [Mexico].
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- 9 favorites
- 12,207 views
- Date taken: 2012-03-15 09:20:55
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-21
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Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1817. Two of Agnes Chase's favorite subjects.
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- 2 comments
- 17 favorites
- 16,893 views
- Date taken: 2012-03-15 08:43:40
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-21
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Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance (1878-1959)
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- 2 comments
- 7 favorites
- 27,256 views
- Date taken: 2011-07-18 13:42:47
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-01
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, standing, award, cornell, research, cancer, oncology, gynecology, 1951, 1950s, fifties, smile, suit, medicine, doctor, pathology, pathologist, hat, eyeglasses, glasses, office, desk, fur, older, academia, 20thcenturymid, 20thcenturyearly
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Jane Stafford (1899-1991)
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- 16 favorites
- 23,760 views
- Date taken: 2011-07-21 11:49:43
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-14
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, writer, pearls, medical, editor, nih, journalist, press, eyes, journalism, chemistry, government, private, 20thcenturyearly, 20thcenturymid
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Elizabeth Shull Russell (1913-2001)
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- 6 favorites
- 20,264 views
- Date taken: 2011-10-12 12:59:54
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-01
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, portrait, eyeglasses, glasses, biologist, biology, geneticist, genetics, research, science, mice, anemia, laboratory, experimentailst, environment, 1939, 1930s, thirties, michigan, chicago, academia, 20thcenturymid
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left to right: Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) and Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999)
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- 19,795 views
- Date taken: 2011-10-12 13:39:05
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-19
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, man, medal, scientists, biology, chemistry, washington, 1968, 1960s, sixties, marinebiology, 20thcenturymid, private
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Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)
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- 3 favorites
- 13,629 views
- Date taken: 2011-10-12 13:05:04
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-19
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, scientist, hat, fur, glasses, eyeglasses, anatomy, medicine, johnshopkins, professor, research, publichealth, 19thcentury, 20thcenturyearly, academia
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Margaret Reed Lewis (1881-1970)
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- 2 favorites
- 14,311 views
- Date taken: 2011-07-18 13:49:26
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-01
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, collar, cuffs, science, scientist, cancer, oncology, embryology, seated, academia, physiology, anatomy, 20thcenturyearly
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Marion Winifred Sheahan, R.N. (1892-1994)
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- 2 comments
- 9 favorites
- 18,292 views
- Date taken: 2011-10-12 13:58:59
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-01
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, portrait, eyeglasses, glasses, brooch, 1949, 1940s, forties, nurse, nursing, publichealth, newyork, bailey, centenarian, 20thcenturymid, private
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Catherine Macfarlane (1877-1969)
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- 2 comments
- 6 favorites
- 19,535 views
- Date taken: 2009-09-17 11:45:44
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-01
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, science, medicine, research, cancer, gynecology, philadelphia, portrait, 1940, 1940s, forties, older, oncology, 20thcenturyearly, 20thcenturymid, private
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Lois Mattox Miller
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- 2 comments
- 10 favorites
- 16,509 views
- Date taken: 2011-07-15 16:16:57
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-01
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, tweed, bracelet, science, writer, lasker, cigarettes, research, 1958, 1950s, fifties, madmen, journalist, book, kittysharp, oscarmiller, war, wwii, correspondent, 20thcenturymid, journalism, private
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Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011)
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- 7 favorites
- 12,576 views
- Date taken: 2011-10-12 12:27:45
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-19
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, scientist, antibiotic, 1951, 1950s, fifties, chemist, biochemist, typhoid, chemistry, private, 20thcenturymid, 20thcenturylate
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Mlle. Marchal
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- 4 favorites
- 14,205 views
- Date taken: 2009-09-03 14:40:13
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-07
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, unidentified, woman, french, necklace, 1920s, 1925, twenties, chemist, scientist, eyeglasses, medical, research, toxicology, ectromelia, mousepox, london, jemarchal, academia, chemistry, 20thcenturyearly
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Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
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- 2 comments
- 5 favorites
- 13,093 views
- Date taken: 2011-10-12 08:35:20
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-19
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, scientist, astronomer, astronomy, physics, harvard, research, english, radcliff, wristwatch, academia, astrophysics, 20thcenturymid, ceciliahelenapaynegaposchkin
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Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
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- 2 comments
- 3 favorites
- 14,631 views
- Date taken: 2011-10-12 08:35:23
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-19
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, woman, scientist, astronomer, astronomy, physics, harvard, research, english, radcliff, hat, 20thcenturymid, astrophysics, academia, ceciliahelenapaynegaposchkin
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Emma Reh (1896-1982)
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- 2 comments
- 20 favorites
- 18,385 views
- Date taken: 2011-10-12 12:28:12
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-14
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2012, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, 20thcenturyearly, government, archaeology, journalism
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Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1935. Cutting Stenotaphrum at Dr. Rolf's, Vicosa.
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- 2 comments
- 2 favorites
- 10,844 views
- Date taken: 2012-03-15 09:07:53
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-21
- Tags: smithsonianinstitutionarchives, smithsonianinstitution, womenshistorymonth, botany, 20thcenturyearly, government, stenotaphrum, 1935, brazil
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No. 40. Crew member preparing plant specimens for Smithsonian, off the east coast of Greenland, 1939
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- 21 favorites
- 9,301 views
- Date taken: 2011-11-16 12:27:24
- Date uploaded: 2011-11-17
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Lunch aboard the vessel Mureva, with dancers from Bora Bora (in local dance competition) consuming lobster, 1957
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- 2 comments
- 18 favorites
- 11,826 views
- Date taken: 2011-11-16 12:28:30
- Date uploaded: 2011-11-17
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, borabora
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Indigenous children in Ammassalik [Tasiilaq], Greenland, 1936
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- 2 comments
- 20 favorites
- 10,775 views
- Date taken: 2011-11-16 12:29:43
- Date uploaded: 2011-11-17
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, greenland, 1936, children, blackandwhite, indigenous
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Invertebrates at 85 feet, Turtle Rock, Antarctica, c. 1962
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- 2 comments
- 31 favorites
- 13,047 views
- Date taken: 2011-11-16 12:23:48
- Date uploaded: 2011-11-17
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Mr. Richard R. Chaney
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- 12 favorites
- 13,163 views
- Date taken: 2011-09-30 10:19:44
- Date uploaded: 2012-01-10
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, tolman, unidentified, museumguard, ncfa, nationalcollectionoffinearts, marbledesk, gallery, display, exhibit, artcollection, smithsonian, smithsonianart, washingtondc, 1935
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View from LORAN tower through the antenna center structure on Sand-Johnston Island, 1964.
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- 47 favorites
- 30,367 views
- Date taken: 2013-08-09 09:42:52
- Date uploaded: 2013-10-17
- Tags: smithsonian, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, loran, longrangenavigation, lorantower, loranstation, johnsonatoll, sandisland, johnsonsandisland
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Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 478
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- 49 favorites
- 14,424 views
- Date uploaded: 2015-04-16
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonian, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, 2015, 201505, internationalmigratorybirdday
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10 miles south of Pullman, Washington, on US 195(?), February 1953.
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- 19 favorites
- 24,653 views
- Date taken: 2013-11-14 10:49:03
- Date uploaded: 2013-12-03
- Tags: smithsonian, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, fieldbookproject
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[View of automobile by campsite] during deer season at Hardy Ridge [Washington], October 1949.
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- 84 favorites
- 36,763 views
- Date taken: 2013-11-14 10:48:21
- Date uploaded: 2013-12-03
- Tags: smithsonian, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, fieldbookproject, car, trees, tent, woody
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Deer observed at Yellowstone National Park, 1889-1941
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- 2 comments
- 95 favorites
- 32,411 views
- Date taken: 2014-03-18 16:10:17
- Date uploaded: 2014-04-01
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, fieldbookproject, 201404
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Bear cub in trap, White Mountains, Arizona, 1889-1941
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- 2 comments
- 11 favorites
- 25,778 views
- Date taken: 2011-07-21 09:04:35
- Date uploaded: 2014-04-01
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A gray pocket
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- 6 favorites
- 17,824 views
- Date taken: 2014-03-25 13:51:23
- Date uploaded: 2014-04-01
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