I never know what kind of reaction I'll get when I post samples of the photo sets I'm adding to the Floyd R. Whitmore Public Domain Photo Archive.

This photo, apparently from Ketchikan, Alaska in 1970, got a lot of attention on Instagram compared to most of the photos I post there. Usually I'll get maybe a couple dozen views and a few likes. If I pick some good hashtags, I can push those numbers up a bit.

By comparison, after about a day, this one had over 300 views and over a dozen likes. Plus, people were visiting the IG profile and clicking through to the archive site, and the account picked up another follower. These are still tiny numbers in the grand scheme of things on Instagram, but this photo has had more user engagement than any others I've posted.

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