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Ethel R. Kovach Scott (1918?-2004)
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- Date taken: 2011-01-25 16:39:51
- Date uploaded: 2011-03-15
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Jean Xceron
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- Date uploaded: 2008-11-03
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Portrait of John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871): Astronomer, Physicist, Chemist
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:09:58
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-04
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Untitled
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- Date taken: 2002-06-03 14:01:06
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-03
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Interior of house of Lawrence Alma-Tedema
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- Date taken: 2006-01-31 10:51:17
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-02
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Untitled
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- Date taken: 2005-06-22 12:12:14
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Mr. A. & Children, Ruidosa
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- Date taken: 2007-07-27 15:19:53
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-17
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Bakery at St. Michel [Haiti]
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- Date uploaded: 2014-10-28
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Los Tecuanes at the 2004 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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- Date taken: 2004-06-26 23:22:36
- Date uploaded: 2008-07-17
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Magnified butterfly wing
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- Date taken: 2013-01-03 16:47:58
- Date uploaded: 2013-01-09
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Ceiling fixture, Rockefeller Center, New York City
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- Date taken: 2009-01-22 10:23:48
- Date uploaded: 2009-08-18
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Untitled
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- Date taken: 2005-06-15 14:34:55
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-13
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Phyllis Jones
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- Date taken: 2011-01-25 16:33:58
- Date uploaded: 2011-03-22
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Group of lawyers, scientists, and supporters assembled during the Scopes anti-evolution trial, Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925.
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- Date taken: 2011-06-21 15:31:42
- Date uploaded: 2011-07-08
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Photograph of Railway Mail Service clerks in Kansas City, Missouri
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- Date taken: 2009-10-13 12:16:29
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-19
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Untitled
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- Date taken: 2005-06-16 10:36:06
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-13
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Untitled
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- 10 favorites
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- Date taken: 2005-06-15 12:54:07
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-13
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Portrait of Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916), Inventor
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:10:16
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-04
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Photograph of military mail censors at work
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- Date taken: 2009-10-13 12:16:32
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-19
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Henry Ward Ranger
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- Date uploaded: 2008-12-02
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Daniel Chester French
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- Date uploaded: 2009-02-02
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Titiana Krassnosselslie Maximova
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- Date taken: 2010-06-01 15:57:19
- Date uploaded: 2014-03-04
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Portrait of George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), Astronomer
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2008-05-30
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2007 Powwow
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- Date taken: 2007-08-11 00:22:15
- Date uploaded: 2008-05-30
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Catherine MacKenzie (Bierstadt) (ca. 1894-1949)
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- Date taken: 2009-09-09 15:03:41
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-01
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2005 Powwow
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- Date taken: 2008-05-07 14:33:21
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-03
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Portrait of Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), Mathematician
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:10:41
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-04
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1997 Clinton Inaugural Ball
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- Date taken: 1993-01-20 08:12:26
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-16
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Wynne Sharples Ballinger (1923-2008)
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- Date taken: 2011-10-12 13:54:24
- Date uploaded: 2014-03-04
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Untitled
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- 7 favorites
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- Date taken: 2005-06-22 11:43:36
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-04
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Portrait of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), Physicist
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:11:17
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-05
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2007 Powwow
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- Date taken: 2007-08-12 16:15:25
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-04
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2466. Rio Zula, at Ocotlan [sic] (2 miles up the river)
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- Date taken: 2014-06-12 11:39:48
- Date uploaded: 2014-06-26
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Landscape of Antarctica with Dark Rocks
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- Date taken: 2010-02-23 14:53:14
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-08
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Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
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- Date taken: 2011-01-25 16:34:16
- Date uploaded: 2011-03-22
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Untitled
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- 9 favorites
- 15,590 views
- Date taken: 2005-06-16 10:33:11
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-13
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Charlotte Haywood (1897-1970?)
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- Date taken: 2011-01-25 16:30:43
- Date uploaded: 2011-03-15
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Alfred Q. Collins
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- Date taken: 2006-04-05 15:13:31
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-03
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Mary Gibson Smith
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- 16 favorites
- 15,570 views
- Date taken: 2011-10-12 14:14:31
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-07
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Carleton Wiggins
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- 15,563 views
- Date taken: 2006-07-25 13:03:55
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-03
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, portrait, carletonwiggins, mustache, painter, steampunk, moustache, cattlepainter, bushyeyebrows, tuxedocollar, tie, blackandwhit, glasses, pincenez, fob, profile, awesomemoustachesofthecommons, archivesofamericanart, movember
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Emil Carlsen
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- 15,562 views
- Date uploaded: 2008-11-10
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A supernova remnant about 20,000 light years from Earth
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:30:01
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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Portrait of Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (1821-1902), Medical Scientist and Anthropologist
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:11:22
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-05
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Clara S. Stoltenberg (1865-1950)
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- Date taken: 2011-10-12 14:38:16
- Date uploaded: 2014-03-04
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Arthur Garfield Hays reading the scientists’ testimony into the record, Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee, July 20, 1925.
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- Date taken: 2010-01-13 17:32:10
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Paper Garden
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- Date taken: 2002-06-28 13:23:58
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Fiat with collecting net in place, Jamaica, 1937
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- Date taken: 2013-06
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Marian Irwin Osterhout (1888-1973)
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- Date taken: 2011-01-25 16:33:29
- Date uploaded: 2011-03-03
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Time-depth record
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- Date taken: 2012-10-17 09:59:08
- Date uploaded: 2012-11-12
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Elihu Vedder
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- Date taken: 2006-01-31 12:24:06
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-03
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