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Showing results 1 - 12 of 18 for Cultural relations
  1. A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat takes a photo of a museum object in a laboratory.

    Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

    • Date: July 6, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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  3. A group portrait of the members of the 1975 Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council.

    Women Carrying out the Work of Change in the 1970s

    • Date: January 5, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Wonder Woman 1984 features fictional Smithsonian women in science trying to change the world. Let’s examine how real-life women pushed for change at the Smithsonian in the 1970s and created new opportunities for women at work.

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    We’re Digitizing the Smithsonian Women’s Council Records!

    • Date: June 30, 2022
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Celebrate with us as we ramp up to digitize more than 36,000 records documenting the history of women and work at the Smithsonian.

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  7. A woman sitting at a table looks at diamond-bearing rocks under a microscope.

    Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge

    • Date: May 5, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and

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  9. A woman, Mary Jane Rathbun, sits at her desk looking at scientific specimens.

    Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century

    • Date: October 24, 2019
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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  11. A yearbook entry with a portrait of a woman and a brief description of her life, including her experiences at college and hopes for the future.

    A Portrait of a Scientist

    • Date: June 2, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Dr. Evelyn G. Mitchell loved neurology and fishing.

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    A Library for the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council

    • Date: September 7, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: From The Feminine Mystique to Ms. magazine: take a look at what members of the Women’s Council were reading in the 1970s and 1980s.

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  15. Adela Gomez smiles while speaking on the telephone at work.

    American Women of Science Symposium Sessions Available Online

    • Date: December 1, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: You can watch the 2020 Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative symposium on the past and future of women in science any time.

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    Serena Katherine “Violet” Dandridge: Suffragist and Scientific Illustrator

    • Date: August 4, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: As one of the first women to work in scientific illustration at the Smithsonian, Violet Dandridge made her mark at the United States National Museum.

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  19. A Suffrage Protest at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 4, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: In 1917, police detectives arrested two suffragists suspected of planning a pro-suffrage demonstration at the United States National Museum.

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  21. A portrait of scientist Eva J. Pell smiling.

    American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future

    • Date: October 6, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Attend this year’s Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Virtual Symposium!

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  23. A person stands in a room with scientific instruments. She appears to be working on an experiment.

    Smithsonian Women in Science

    • Date: September 17, 2019
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn how we’re creating a better record of women in science at the Smithsonian.

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