April 1st, 2013
(via Giant grasshoppers plague Kansas! - O Say Can You See?) You Don’t Stick These Bunnies in Your Hunting Coat Pocket, exaggeration postcard, F.D. Conrad, 1930s. Message on back: “Let’s go rabbit hunting!!!”

(via Giant grasshoppers plague Kansas! - O Say Can You See?)

You Don’t Stick These Bunnies in Your Hunting Coat Pocket, exaggeration postcard, F.D. Conrad, 1930s. Message on back: “Let’s go rabbit hunting!!!”

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March 25th, 2013
Elaine Zworykin (by Smithsonian Institution) Zworykin, Elaine       Geological Survey (U.S.)       RCA Laboratories

Elaine Zworykin (by Smithsonian Institution)

Zworykin, Elaine
       Geological Survey (U.S.)
       RCA Laboratories

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March 18th, 2013
Charlotte Davis (1924-2005) (by Smithsonian Institution) Charlotte Davis (later Charlotte Davis Mooers) worked with information retrieval and programming language research from World War II through the early 1990s.

Charlotte Davis (1924-2005) (by Smithsonian Institution)

Charlotte Davis (later Charlotte Davis Mooers) worked with information retrieval and programming language research from World War II through the early 1990s.

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March 3rd, 2013
Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893-1978) (by Smithsonian Institution) Biologist Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893-1978) served on the faculty at Yale and did pioneering studies of rhesus monkeys

Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893-1978) (by Smithsonian Institution)

Biologist Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893-1978) served on the faculty at Yale and did pioneering studies of rhesus monkeys

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March 2nd, 2013
Laurel van der Wal - Head of Bioastronautics at Space Technology Laboratories (d. 2009) (by Smithsonian Institution)

Laurel van der Wal - Head of Bioastronautics at Space Technology Laboratories (d. 2009) (by Smithsonian Institution)

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March 2nd, 2013
Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893-1950) (by Smithsonian Institution)

Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893-1950) (by Smithsonian Institution)

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March 2nd, 2013
Ethel Grace Stiffler (by Smithsonian Institution)

Ethel Grace Stiffler (by Smithsonian Institution)

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February 5th, 2013
(via Bangs, Bobs and Bouffants: The Roots of the First Lady’s Tresses | Around The Mall) Colleen Moore by Batiste Madalena. Gouache over graphite poster, 1928. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

(via Bangs, Bobs and Bouffants: The Roots of the First Lady’s Tresses | Around The Mall)

Colleen Moore by Batiste Madalena. Gouache over graphite poster, 1928. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution


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February 5th, 2013
(via Bangs, Bobs and Bouffants: The Roots of the First Lady’s Tresses | Around The Mall) Irene Foote Castle by Bardon Adolph de Meyer. Photogravure, 1919. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

(via Bangs, Bobs and Bouffants: The Roots of the First Lady’s Tresses | Around The Mall)

Irene Foote Castle by Bardon Adolph de Meyer. Photogravure, 1919. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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February 4th, 2013
(via Eye Level: In This Case: Lover’s Eye)  Eye of a Lady by an unidentified artist watercolor on ivory about 1800

(via Eye Level: In This Case: Lover’s Eye)

 Eye of a Lady by an unidentified artist

watercolor on ivory about 1800

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