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.

Series of photographs of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute buildings and research facilities at Barro Colorado, Naos, and Galeta islands, Panama, 1960s.

For Women's History Month, we're participating in the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Her Natural History campaign to highlight women in natural history in our collections. Learn about how you can join in on all of the fun this month!

Information volunteers answer telephone calls in the Great Hall of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, December 6, 1978, by Richard Hofmeister. The specially trained corp of vounteers handled approximately 250,000 telephone calls a year from the public.