Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

We take a look at the National Portrait Gallery's 50th Anniversary Exhibition through the documents of a previous exhibition, This New Man.

We take a look at the difference standardized forms used at the Smithsonian.

Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

As another summer intern cycle comes to a close, SIA Preservation intern, Rita Rushanan, discusses the preservation challenges found in the Doris M. Cochran Collection, which she had the chance to work with during her time at the Archives. 

The 1st African American female entomologist according to the Entomological Society of America, Dr. Margaret Collins, held professorships at Howard University, Florida A&M, and Federal City College, and was instrumental in building the termite collection at the National Museum of Natural History! #Groundbreaker