Photographs from the Science Service collections preserve behind-the-scenes glimpses of the newsgathering process for science reporters.

See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

United States Fish Commission (USFC) staff member monitors McDonald hatching jars for the hatching of buoyant fish eggs at USFC research station, circa 1880s.

Taxidermist Francis “Frank” Greenwell repairs a Nubian giraffe in an exhibit containing animals from Africa in the Hall of Mammals at the National Museum of Natural History, February 10, 1982, by Kim Nielsen.

Smokey Bear mascot visits Smokey Bear at National Zoological Park, 1964.

A closer look at Smithsonian's first woman photographer, Louisa Bernie Gallaher.

We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers this winter.

"Kin and Communities: The Peopling of America" seminar with Wilton S. Dillon, director of the Office of Symposia and Seminars, Dr. Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist, and Lucille Dawson, coordinator of the Native American Area at the Festival of American Folklife, June 15-17, 1976, by Richard Hofmeister.

Naval Captain and computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper and mathematician Jeanne LaDuke attend "Women Pioneers in Mathematics" meeting at National Museum of American History, held to honor American women who received PhD's in mathematics prior to World War II, August 31, 1981, by Dane Penland.

To celebrate Women’s History Month, here are two examples of 20th-century women who applied their education and expertise in geology and paleontology outside traditional university career paths.