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A grid of 7 vintage Smokey Bear posters

Some Beautiful Old Smokey Bear Fire Prevention Propaganda Posters

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It’s campfire season here at the Department, and whether you’re burning barrels full of confidential documents or old office furniture full of asbestos, it’s important to practice fire safety. We’ve enlisted our newly minted Information Ambassador, Pokey the Pigeon, to dig through the U.S. Forest Service Smokey Bear Collection at the USDA National Agricultural Library […]

The Psychedelic Nature of 1970s NASA Landsat 1 Florida Satellite Images

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Captured by Landsat 1, the first satellite of the US’s Landsat program, in the early 1970s at a scale of 1:500,000 (1 cm equals 5 km), these satellite images of Florida were superimposed with a Mercator grid, printed onto oversized poster panels, and then—likely decades later—scanned and digitized in ultra high-resolution. The resulting images, showing […]