Anna R. Cohn, Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), 1988–2014, toured groundbreaking exhibitions across the United States. She joined the Smithsonian in 1983 as director of the international exhibition “The Precious Legacy” and later organized “Generations” for the S. Dillon Ripley Center’s International Gallery. #Groundbreaker

To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, we would like to recognize Marianne Green, a volunteer in the Digital Services Division who digitizes and reviews documents, letters, and photographs requested by researchers, helping provide access to our collections.

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

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.

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

Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau, Lead Scientist, Forest Global Earth Observatory's Global Forest Carbon Initiative, has researched the patterns, causes, and consequences of plant diversity for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute since 2008. As leader of the program, Muller-Landau strives to implement standardized measurements of forest carbon stocks and fluxes across forest research sites. #Groundbreaker

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.

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.

Doris Holmes Blake's devotion to her passion for entomology made her a treasure to natural history and the Smithsonian Institution.