Wonderful Women Wednesday: Elvira Clain-Stefanelli

Elvira Clain-Stefanelli worked with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s National Numismatics Collection between 1957 and 2000. Although she initially arrived at the Smithsonian as an assistant to her husband, she eventually became the department’s first executive director in 1984.#Groundbreaker 

A woman, surrounded by four men, sits at a table. On the table are many small boxes with coins.

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