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Cherry blossoms have always made beautiful backdrops for photos. 🌸 More than a century ago, three young women dressed in kimonos pose with parasols under a blooming cherry tree. This photo (from sometime between 1860 and 1900) is in our...
Cherry blossoms have always made beautiful backdrops for photos. 🌸 More than a century ago, three young women dressed in kimonos pose with parasols under a blooming cherry tree. This photo (from sometime between 1860 and 1900) is in our...

Cherry blossoms have always made beautiful backdrops for photos. 🌸 More than a century ago, three young women dressed in kimonos pose with parasols under a blooming cherry tree.

This photo (from sometime between 1860 and 1900) is in our @freersackler’s collection. It was included in an album produced by the studio of Tamamura Kozaburo (1880s–1900s), a successful commercial photography studio in Japan.

Can’t get your cherry blossom fix in D.C. this year? See plenty of peak bloom across our collections online.

#cherry blossoms #peak bloom #photography #19th century photography #Japanese art #Japan art #cherry tree #Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries #Freer Sackler #Asian art #art museum #photo #museum #Smithsonian #Washington DC
1 month ago / 399 notes
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About 100 years ago, parents used to mail their children. Seriously. Doesn’t he look thrilled about it? This is a staged photo, but kids getting postmarked was a very real phenomenon when the parcel post service was getting started, before a “no...
About 100 years ago, parents used to mail their children. Seriously. Doesn’t he look thrilled about it? This is a staged photo, but kids getting postmarked was a very real phenomenon when the parcel post service was getting started, before a “no...

About 100 years ago, parents used to mail their children. Seriously. Doesn’t he look thrilled about it?

This is a staged photo, but kids getting postmarked was a very real phenomenon when the parcel post service was getting started, before a “no humans” rule went into effect.

In 1913, an Ohio couple mailed their young son to his grandmother about a mile down the road. It cost 15 cents for the stamps, but just in case, the parents did insure their child for $50. 

Our National Postal Museum explains the history of these special deliveries.

#mail history #postal history #postal service #National Postal Museum #postal museum #Smithsonian National Postal Museum #parcel post #20th century history #photography #19th century photography #You've Got Mail
11 months ago / 718 notes
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A lot has changed since 1887. This before-and-after view of the National Mall shows how different the space looks from 1887, when the first photo was taken, to 2015. (Oh hi there, @nmaahc!) The photographs are from Smithsonian Institution Archives,...
A lot has changed since 1887. This before-and-after view of the National Mall shows how different the space looks from 1887, when the first photo was taken, to 2015. (Oh hi there, @nmaahc!) The photographs are from Smithsonian Institution Archives,...

A lot has changed since 1887.

This before-and-after view of the National Mall shows how different the space looks from 1887, when the first photo was taken, to 2015. (Oh hi there, @nmaahc!)

The photographs are from Smithsonian Institution Archives, who’ve kept track of how we look (and much more) through the ages. See more then-and-now photos in their blog post. 

#National Mall #Washington Monument #Washington #Washington DC #DC history #local history #Washington history #National Museum of African American History and Culture #NMAAHC #photography #19th century photography #1800s photography #before and after #then and now
11 months ago / 426 notes
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