Research Anthropologist Dr. Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, uses bones to study the effects of environmental contaminants on people in the past and present, and directs the Smithsonian Institution Bio-Imaging Research Center. #Groundbreaker

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1913 Ford Model T touring car upon arrival for donation to the United States National Museum.

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

Experience the outdoors during National Camping Month.

Curator of Oceanic Ethnology Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives, is an expert on Tongan dance and was honored by the YWCA as a leading female scientist whose work increased the understanding of native cultures. #Groundbreaker

 We examine a long accepted, undocumented, but oft repeated account that the Smithsonian’s Parthenon plaster friezes had been transferred from the Corcoran Gallery of Art sometime in 1897.

Construction of Angelica Van Buren mannequin for First Ladies Hall exhibition at National Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History, November 1972.