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Staff Pick from the National Museum of the American Indian
21 hours ago ago from The Bigger Picture
To mark American Indian Heritage Month this year, staff members from the Photo Archive at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), filled us in on the history of the collections recently made available on the NMAI Collections Search website . As a follow-up, they are sharing their personal favorites from the archive. Today we hear from Emily Moazami, Photo Technician. Studio portrait of Crow delegation. ...
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1 hour, 54 minutes ago ago from Urban Art and Antiques
Posted By Geo on December 18, 2009 This photo of Lincoln s funeral train at Cleveland sold for $750 An album of carte de visite photographs of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession was the top-selling lot at Cowan's December 9, nearly tripling its $8/10,000 estimate by selling for $27,025. Comprised of 97 CDVs, the album featured images of three of the nine cities on the funeral route— Columbus, Ohio, and Chicago and Springfield, ...
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2 hours ago ago from The Philosophy of Lists
Here's a list I have been meaning to put together for such a long while: my ten favourite museums. I have needed a whole week away from work and the computer to come up with a list that I like. There were so many possible contenders! The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. This is a mad collection of artefacts, gathered initially by Lt General Pitt Rivers, a Victorian anthropologist, explorer and archaeologist and then added to by later ...
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19 hours ago ago from (Mud)Bucket
Robert Sperry... I was gonna brush him off as just another 'plate maker' from the sixties. But I dunno, these are pretty cool. I love the red one in the middle. And the textural quality seems pretty neat, too. (images via Howard House , ArtSlant , and the Smithsonian American Art Museum ) Thanks for reading! ;)
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18 hours ago ago from MetalMiner
Image credit: Marcin Wichary; Source: The Computer History Museum What weighs five tons, is made of cast iron, steel and bronze, woven together from 8,000 distinct parts, composed from designs dating back 162 years (1847 through 1879) and is taller than most people? Image credit: Marcin Wichary; Source: The Computer History Museum They describe the first mechanical calculator [...]
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