Ann M. Shumard has worked to develop the photography collection at the National Portrait Gallery as an Assistant Curator, 1979–2001, and Senior Curator of Photographs, 2001–present. She has curated more than a dozen exhibitions and serves on the Smithsonian’s Collections Advisory Committee. #Groundbreaker

Discover the life and career of an early public health heroine.

Cyanotype, Riker Electric Mail Wagon vehicle for exhibition by Post Office Department at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.

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.

The Archives recently upgraded its video digitization equipment to an open source, cost effective solution.

Jennifer Locke Jones is the Chair and Curator of the Armed Forces Division of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, where she has worked on exhibitions  since 1985. Additionally, she managed reoragnization efforts, fundraising programs, and digitization plans for the museum’s National Numismatics Collection as its Chair between 2012 and 2016. #Groundbreaker

Here are some of the highlights of the research conducted at SIA this past winter.

Young museum visitors with horse and carriage outside the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, Washington, D.C., circa 1910s.

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.

What happens when your digital prints get wet and why is this important? Answers below!