"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.

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

Deborah Bell, Assistant Collections Manager for the U.S. Herbarium at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1975–2014, conserved, documented, and made accessible the collection of five million plant specimens. She participated in numerous expeditions, collecting specimens and training local students and staff. #Groundbreaker

In 1847, the Smithsonian Board of Regents contracted with James Dixon and Gilbert Cameron to begin construction of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle.

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.

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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.

Elaine R.S. Hodges, scientific illustrator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1965–1996, made drawings of insects and other organisms that were frequently used by Smithsonian scientists. She was a founder of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and edited the Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration (1989). #Groundbreaker

In 1974, women joined the Smithsonian security force and they have been rising through the ranks ever since.