Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.
Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.
Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.
Description: You asked. We answered. On October 7, 2020, six Archives staff members were excited and ready to answer questions on Twitter and Instagram for #AskAnArchivist Day.
Description: Baby rhino "Patrick," the first live Indian rhinoceros born in captivity in the United States to NZP rhinos "Rajkumari" and "Tarun." Image Number: 74-1241-07.
Description: Keeper C.W. Lewis with Indian elephant "Dunk" wading in a pool in the yard outside the Elephant House at the National Zoological Park, NZP-0289.
Description: Archaeologist & ethnohistorian Mildred Mott Wedel was appointed Smithsonian research associate, 1974 and was the 1st woman to receive an anthropology fellowship from the University of Chicago. She often worked alongside her husband, Waldo Wedel, and their research on Plains Indians remains important today. #Groundbreaker
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