Photographs included in this set come from the Anacostia Community Museum, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and the National Museum of the American Indian. They show a range of celebrations: personal family celebrations, international celebrations of arts and industry at major world expositions, and National Powwows, the celebrations of Native American dance and song. The Smithsonian documents these events and makes the images available for study, research, and enjoyment.

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COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #1

REX MORGAN, M.D. Talks... About Your Unborn Child!
Free comic, distributed at Pennsylvania liquor stores
16 pages, full color throughout, newsprint, ca. 1980

PROBLEM DEALT WITH: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Link:

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COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #1 REX MORGAN, M.D. Talks... About Your Unborn Child! Free comic, distributed at Pennsylvania liq... (more)

COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #2

DENNIS THE MENACE TAKES A POKE AT POISON

Free comic, distributed to children in the 60s and 80s.
1960s version also distributed to parents during parent teacher conferences and at health fairs.

16 pages each issue, full color throughout, newsprint for both.

Published in 1961 through 1969 and with a complete revise to content (as shown) in 1981.

PROBLEM DEALT WITH: Poison and Other Household Dangers

Link:
http://www.ep.tc/problems/two (less)

COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #2 DENNIS THE MENACE TAKES A POKE AT POISON Free comic, distributed to children in the 60s and 8... (more)

COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #3

HERE THERE'S SMOKE ... THERE'S DANGER

16 pages, full color throughout, newsprint.

Free comic, distributed to children at public schools and at health clinics from 1965 through 1978. Athletes change on the back cover in subsequent reprints.

PROBLEM DEALT WITH: Cigarettes

Link:
http://www.ep.tc/problems/three
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Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian’s first photographer. He and his studio staff re-shot many of the photographs collected by the institution’s scientists, including documentation of Smithsonian-sponsored expeditions as well as images of scientific phenomena.

Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie’s duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum’s installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie’s documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution’s art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.

Medium: Cyanotype

Dimensions: 7.9" x 5.2"

Geography: U.S.A.

Date:1890

Collection: Record Unit 95- Thomas Smillie served as the first official photographer for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the photography lab as well as its custodian, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.

Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=3&a_mrc=40&a_cre=108&id=1852

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