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- Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.
- Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon
underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.
- Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.
- Accessing as Spider: The system has identified your IP as being a spider.
IP Address: 3.139.70.131 -- Domain: Amazon Technologies
I love well-behaved spiders! They are, in fact, how most people find my site. Unfortunately, my network has a limited bandwidth and pictures take up bandwidth. Spiders ask for lots and lots of pages and chew up lots and lots of bandwidth which slows things down considerably for regular folk. To counter this, you'll see all the text on the page but the images are being suppressed. Also, some system options like merges are being blocked for you.
Note: Permission is NOT granted for spiders, robots, etc to use the site for AI-generation purposes. I'm sure you're thrilled by your ability to make revenue from my work but there's nothing in that for my human users or for me.
If you are in fact human, please email me at guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can check if your designation was made in error. Given your number of hits, that's unlikely but what the hell.
- Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- SIPM_210828_007.JPG: People weren't real good at obeying the directional arrows
- SIPM_210828_011.JPG: The stylus is a funky shape because it needs a hook for some of the drawers.
- SIPM_210828_021.JPG: Return your stylus here.
They will be sanitized for reuse.
- SIPM_210828_029.JPG: Take precautions to protect yourself and others during your visit.
Please pick up a stylus to use with our exhibits.
- SIPM_210828_044.JPG: Charge your phone here.
- SIPM_210828_058.JPG: Stay Safe
Sanitize your hands here
- SIPM_210828_065.JPG: Take Precautions to protect yourself and others during your visit
* Maintain a safe social distance
* Wear a face covering
* Wash hands, sanitize and practice good hygiene
- SIPM_210828_072.JPG: Deliver the Mail
Be a letter carrier! Take the mail from the post office bin below and deliver it to all the different homes along your route.
Different homes have different types of mailboxes. Which mailbox looks the most like the mailbox where you live? Have you seen any of the other types of mailboxes before?
- SIPM_210828_079.JPG: Cluster mailboxes make it easier for a letter carrier to deliver mail to many homes at once. These are the newest type of mailbox, introduced in the 1960s.
- SIPM_210828_090.JPG: Can you imagine carrying a different key for each individual mailbox in a big apartment building?
Letter carriers today carry a master key that lets them open many boxes.
- SIPM_210828_098.JPG: In 1923, the Post Office Department decided that every household must have a mailbox or letter slot so that letter carriers could deliver mail even if someone wasn't home.
- SIPM_210828_105.JPG: Before mailbox design was standardized, people made their own boxes or repurposed containers like produce crates and old oil cans.
What you you have at home you could use to receive mail?
- SIPM_210828_113.JPG: Some people choose to have mail delivered directly inside their homes! A letter carrier can drop the mail through the slot at a home's front entry. This protects mail from theft and the weather.
- SIPM_210828_117.JPG: Masked carriers.
- SIPM_210828_132.JPG: Mamava
Privacy for pumping or breastfeeding
- SIPM_210828_135.JPG: Lockers are currently out of order. We apologize for any inconvenience.
[All of Smithsonian museums except the ones at the Freer Gallery were closed due to COVID-19.]
- SIPM_210828_139.JPG: Most of the Smithsonians added these industrial-sized paper towel dispensers since hand-dryers were discouraged during COVID-19.
- SIPM_210828_143.JPG: To keep us all safe, we recommend filling our water bottle.
Please wash hands, sanitize, and practice good hygience.
- SIPM_210828_147.JPG: You don't see many payphones around these days.
- SIPM_210828_154.JPG: Free Calls
Get God's Blessings/Daily Prayer
Need Help Finding a Job
Social Security
EBT Card Services
Need a Credit Card
Chase Bank
Wells Fargo
Bank of America
50 cent local calls
- SIPM_210828_161.JPG: Stop the spread of COVID-19
Maximum 2 persons to use the lift at a time
- AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
- Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.)
I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com
and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
- Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
- Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].
