Description: [view in English]Matthew Stirling desarrolló enteramente su carrera en antropología y arqueología en el Smithsonian Institution. Geográficamente, cubrió un área desde Nueva Guinea hasta las Américas, y sus contribuciones a la ciencia fue igualmente amplia. Educado en la Universidad de California en Berkeley y la Universidad de George Washington, Stirling fue un investigador de
Description: Olga F. Linares Smithsonian Institution Archives Oral History Collection, SIA009624Olga Francesca Linares (1936 -2014) was an anthropologist with a thirty-five-year tenure at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Born in Panama, Linares moved to the United States to attend boarding school and then received a B.A. in anthropology from Vassar College in 1958 and a
Description: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Smithsonian participated in numerous international world’s fairs and expositions. The Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 held in San Francisco, California, was intended celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as to illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government of the United States, and to