#FriFotos: Do You Want to Know a Secret?
November 16, 2012
2 min readThis week’s #FriFotos theme is SECRETS, so we thought we’d show off one of our own: our archives.
This photo shows William C. Bonner, the National Geographic Society’s head archivist, using a ladder to access some of the harder-to-reach items in the stacks. He has been presiding over vintage Autochromes, slides, paintings, and nearly a half million black-and-white prints deep in the climate-controlled bowels of our D.C. headquarters for almost 30 years.
“You don’t work here and have a favorite photo or a favorite artist,” Bonner says. “There’s just too much good stuff.”
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#FriFotos is a weekly themed Twitter chat founded by @EpsteinTravels, @CharlesYap, and @TravelDesigned where travelers share their favorite pics. Search #FriFotos on Twitter to see this week’s submissions or tweet one of your own.
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