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: With Chinese New Year upon us, the beautiful stationery these letters are written on gives a glimpse into life for academic expatriates in southern China in the 1920s.
Description: Dr. Richard L. Zusi, associate curator in the Division of Birds, Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Museum of Natural History, examines bird skulls, August 31, 1964, by Jack Scott, SIA Acc. 16-126, MNH-154.
Description: African American communities have celebrated Juneteenth for more than 150 years. When did the Smithsonian begin hosting programs to commemorate the nation’s second independence day?
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="410" caption="Abram Lerner (Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), Columbian artist Fernando Botero, and Frances and Sydney Lewis (philanthropist, a retail company executive and trustee at Hirshhorn) are pictured, December 1979, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="From left, the Disney Studio's Michael Eisner, American History Director Roger Kennedy (sporting a special T-shirt celebrating Mickey Mouse's 60th birthday), Walt Disney's nephew Roy and Mickey Mouse joined in a celebration at National Museum of American History, 1988, Dane A. Penland, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="President Gerald Ford, former astronaut and NASM Director Michael Collins, and Secretary S. Dillon Ripley with satellite ribbon-cutting apparatus on July 1, 1976, are ready for the opening day ribbon-cutting ceremony at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), 1976, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Israel's Shimon Peres and Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush looking at the National Air and Space Museum's World War II memorabilia with NASM Deputy Director Donald Lopez during a brief visit in September 1986, by Mark Avino, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder:
Description: Dr. Melanie McField is the founding director of the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative, a collaborative, international conservation program of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, focused on improving the health of the Mesoamerian Reef, since 2006. She leads a team that aims to create reports that measure the health of the region. #Groundbreaker
Description: 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, chief curator Vladmir Clain-Stefanelli, she eventually became the department’s first executive director in 1984. In 1973, both Elvira and Vladmir
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="At the Kenneth Snelson opening, Abram Lerner, left, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, stands talking to Joseph H. Hirshhorn next to an abstract sculpture by Snelson, June 1981, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9600, Abram Lerner Oral
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