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: Waldo L. Schmitt, a curator with the United States National Museum, participated in a 1938 expedition with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to survey the Clipperton, Cocos, and Galapagos Islands.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="291" caption="A storage area, used by the Division of Insects at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, has cabinets and shelves of books, c. 1915, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9555, Box 1, John Frederick Gates Clarke