Head of Conservation at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute, Harriet (Rae) F. Beaubien, is an archaeological conservation specialist and advises on the prevention of illicit trafficking of cultural heritage materials. #Groundbreaker 

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, some of Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitts field books are worth tens of thousands of words.

William Woodville Rockhill models traditional costume from Tibet, 1890.

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Take a look at the residents of the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 1973 with these newly digitized images.

Research botanist Dr. Ashley Egan, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, works with the museum's 86,000 legume specimens to understand the processes and patterns that have formed biodiversity throughout the course of evolution. #Groundbreaker

In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.

Senior administrators stand next to their bicycles outside the Arts and Industries Building during an energy conservation campaign at SI, with David Challinor, Assistant Secretary for Science, Robert Angus Brooks, Under Secretary, and Wymberley Coerr, Director of International and Environmental Programs, June 3, 1974, by Richard Farrar.