Description: The first African American female elevator operator and museum technician at the National Museum of Natural History, Sophie Lutterlough, tirelessly worked to restore and classify thousands of myriapoda and tick specimen. #Groundbreaker
Description: Curator Dr. Karen Milbourne, National Museum of African Art, studies the arts of western Zambia and contemporary African art. Her exhibition "Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts" won an Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Excellence in Exhibitions award. #Groundbreaker
Description: Roslyn A. Walker was the Director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art from 1997 to 2002. Under her leadership, the Museum welcomed a new permanent gallery for contemporary art, a development office, and the Friends of African Art support committee. From 1981 until her appointment, Walker had worked at the Museum as a curator, specializing in Nigerian art.
Description: Barry Hampton played an important role in Division of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Natural History Museum for decades, but recognition was slow to come.
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="African American Laborers including Robert Campbell, Richard Hill, Rev. Bartlett L. Phillips, and Charles Washington are dressed in their white uniforms and worked at the United States National Museum, c. 1890, by T. W. Smillie, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 34, Negative
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="253" caption="Edgar A. Mearns, an ornithologist, research associate, and honorary associate in zoology, with the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, was one of three naturalists from the National Museum chosen go on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition with Theodore Roosevelt to
Description: Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales reconstructed the daunting Underground Railroad route in pictures. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Teachers! Incredible footage, objects, and images of WWI from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the National WWI Museum and Memorial, in the new app, Remembering WWI. [via History Pin] Save the date for