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  Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag

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  • 287 comments
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  • Date taken: 2008-05-14 17:22:06
  • Date uploaded: 2008-06-16
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, mailman, stork, child, mailbag, childinmailbag, uniform, funny, cute, postalservice, mail, disgruntled, grass, siding, wood, stone, foundation, goingpostal, manbag, vintage, dipping, black, white, blackwhite, bw, kid, postman, specialdelivery, clapboard, somebodygetsasupriseinthemail, commons:collection=mail, babywearing, 1900s, man, boy, baby, infant, blackandwhite, standing, bag, sack, frown, dour, scared, mailingchildren, captionable, cap, double, bebê, post, correo, serviciopostal, cartero, postino, tallman, maninhat, clapboardhouse, sternlook, largebaby, commons:event=commonground2009, brilliant, parcelpost, mailingchild, citylettercarrier, mailacrossthecommons, nationalpostalmuseum, take, your, work, day, e, youarethefather
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  U.S. Troops Surrounded by Holiday Mail During WWII

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  • 105 comments
  • 438 favorites
  • 173,180 views
  • Date uploaded: 2008-12-16
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, worldwar2, sailor, mail, package, shipping, pile, brown, sepia, box, navy, armedforces, gift, ustroops, parcels, commons:collection=christmas, wwii, holiday, whitehat, family, love, postal, service, soldiers, uniforms, men, buried, towerin, boxes, christmas, work, working, cajas, correo, segunda, guerra, mundial, withcare, commons:event=commonground2009, chaos, post, warhistory, sailors, handlewithcare, blackandwhite, military, food, militarymaildelivery, ww2, maildrop, 1944, holidaymail, ustroop, packages, nationalpostalmuseum, deluge, commons, mailacrossthecommons, christmasacrossthecommons, betterhomesclubplan, glass
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• Eloise Gerry (1885-1970), shown at microscope

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  • 2 comments
  • 20 favorites
  • 48,831 views
  • Date taken: 2009-02-27 17:29:54
  • Date uploaded: 2009-03-08
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, womensday, scientist, woman, microscope, forestry, lumber, wood, turpentine, usforestservice, wisconsin, eloisegerry, liquidgold, blackandwhite, photo, mikroskop, work, calendar, science, femaleresearcher, femalescientust, womeninscience, 1920sscientists, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, womenshistorymonth, 2009, 20thcenturymid, government
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• Roxie Collie S. Laybourne (1912-2003), identifying bird feathers

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  • 2 comments
  • 17 favorites
  • 35,250 views
  • Date taken: 2009-02-27 17:29:55
  • Date uploaded: 2009-03-08
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, womensday, woman, scientist, zoologist, ornithologist, zoology, ornithology, seated, birds, specimen, feathers, 1944, mid20thcentury, indoors, work, aspeakera, roxiecollielaybourne, forensicornithology, fish, 1950s, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, womenshistorymonth, womeninscience, 2009, 20thcenturylate, government
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• The Apache Reaper

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  • 76 favorites
  • 33,622 views
  • Date taken: 2008-09-04 13:29:41
  • Date uploaded: 2008-09-08
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, woman, reaper, work, apache, edwardscurtis, labour, field, nativeamerican, americanindian, wheat, grass, segador, edwardcurtis, harvest, farming, smithsonianinstitutionlibraries
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• Interior of a Trans World Airline (TWA) Skymaster

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  • 3 comments
  • 13 favorites
  • 30,441 views
  • Date taken: 2008-05-14 17:38:16
  • Date uploaded: 2008-06-04
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, airmail, usps, skymaster, interior, aircraft, sortingmail, transworldairlines, twa, airplane, flyingpostoffice, americanairlines, 1946, wwii, douglasaircraft, dc4, c54, sortingairmailonboardskymaster, postalservice, mail, bins, work, douglasdc4, douglas, dac, post, mailmen, mailroom, history, blackandwhite, organization, mailboxes, workers, postoffice, postalworkers, letters, douglasc54skymaster, douglasc54, douglasskymaster, douglasaircraftcompany, nationalpostalmuseum, mailacrossthecommons
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• The Mussel Gatherer

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  • 2 comments
  • 29 favorites
  • 30,264 views
  • Date taken: 2008-09-04 13:30:00
  • Date uploaded: 2008-09-08
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, woman, gatherer, work, mussels, basket, edwardscurtis, nativeamerican, americanindian, lake, labour, edwardcurtis, sepia, early20thcentury, outdoors, mujer, canasta, lakeside, native, wilderness, smithsonianinstitutionlibraries
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• Fish-Weir Across Trinity River--Hupa

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  • 21 favorites
  • 28,594 views
  • Date taken: 2007-12-04 09:15:14
  • Date uploaded: 2008-09-08
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, washington, dc, usa, fishweir, fishing, nativeamerican, trinityriver, edwardcurtis, edwardscurtis, dam, riverdam, river, americanindian, americanindianatwork, americanindianfishing, water, building, logs, wood, construction, trees, indian, longhair, balancing, sepia, photograph, work, beach, fish, barrier, blackandwhite, smithsonianinstitutionlibraries, californiahistory
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• Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Unidentified man in front of auto dealership, Dayton, Tennessee.

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  • 2 comments
  • 5 favorites
  • 28,360 views
  • Date taken: 2008-09-23 16:40:59
  • Date uploaded: 2008-09-29
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, tennessee1925, scopestrial, classic, striped, tie, oldhat, smile, dark, black, white, atheist, religion, tennessee, evolution, theory, scopes, trial, photography, photo, blackandwhite, portrait, mafia, fbi, sixties, newyork, agent, hat, businessman, work, watsondavis, smithsonianinstitutionarchives, unidentified
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• Sorting airmail

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  • 2 comments
  • 19 favorites
  • 25,715 views
  • Date taken: 2008-05-14 17:37:32
  • Date uploaded: 2008-06-04
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, airmail, usps, clerk, ohmygoshthatssocool, sorting, work, postal, indoors, transcontinentalairmail, pigeonholecompartments, apartadopostal, correo, cartero, shirt, man, mail, postoffice, vintage, scale, nationalpostalmuseum, mailacrossthecommons
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• Highway Post Office Clerks at Work

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  • 8 favorites
  • 24,992 views
  • Date taken: 2008-05-14 17:33:33
  • Date uploaded: 2008-06-04
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, clerk, usps, highwaypostoffice, highwaypostofficebus, mailsorting, work, sortingmail, postalhistory, mailroom, sorting, workers, 1950s, men, nationalpostalmuseum, mailacrossthecommons
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• Rural Free Delivery Carrier in Greenfield, Indiana

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  • 6 favorites
  • 23,521 views
  • Date taken: 2008-05-14 17:39:32
  • Date uploaded: 2008-06-04
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, ruralfreedelivery, wagon, usps, greenfield, indiana, carriage, fence, livraisons, horsedeliveryservice, rfd, n5, mailbox, mailman, picketfence, usmail, 1905, rural, horsedelivery, cart, post, work, photograph, horseandbuggy, tree, delivery, horse, whitepicketfence, nationalpostalmuseum, greenfieldindiana, mailacrossthecommons
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• Portrait of Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944), Astronomer

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  • 13 favorites
  • 22,930 views
  • Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:08:45
  • Date uploaded: 2008-06-13
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, portrait, astronomer, eddington, observatory, science, astronomy, man, telescope, arthur, stanley, acience, work, 1920s, vintagesuit, microscope, looking, lab, staring, oldportrait, antique, berndibner, smithsonianinstitutionlibraries
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• Photograph of letter carriers in Concord, New Hampshire

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  • 2 comments
  • 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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• Photograph of Railway Mail Service clerks in Kansas City, Missouri

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  • 1 comment
  • 11 favorites
  • 15,683 views
  • Date taken: 2009-10-13 12:16:29
  • Date uploaded: 2009-10-19
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, men, moustache, mustache, hat, standing, outdoors, working, work, workers, mail, postal, thirteen, kansascity, sepia, oldwest, railroad, conductors, heritage, nationalpostalmuseum
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• Interior of Boston Mail Streetcar

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  • 0 comments
  • 8 favorites
  • 15,485 views
  • Date taken: 2008-05-14 17:29:12
  • Date uploaded: 2008-06-04
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, boston, streetcar, usps, mail, work, delivery, mailacrossthecommons, nationalpostalmuseum
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• Untitled

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  • 2 comments
  • 19 favorites
  • 11,330 views
  • Date taken: 2006-07-01 14:40:22
  • Date uploaded: 2008-06-05
  • Tags: smithsonianinstitution, basketry, folklifefestival, newmexico, hands, work, folkart, weaving, nativecraft, turquoisebracelets, basket, weaves, participant, folklife, nativeamerican, turquois, centerforfolklifeandculturalheritage
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