Results for "Smithsonian Collections Blog"
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Matilda Coxe Stevenson
- Date: December 14, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915), Bureau of American Ethnology, was the first woman to study the American Southwest, the first female anthropologist hired by the U.S. Government, and did substantial fieldwork among the Zuni and other Southwest tribes. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Alice R. Tangerini
- Date: August 24, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Alice R. Tangerini became the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany's first staff illustrator in 1972, and she has illustrated over 1500 species of plants. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Cynthia Adams Hoover
- Date: June 15, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Cynthia Adams Hoover was Curator of Musical Instruments, National Museum of American History, for over 40 years, co-founded the American Musical Instrument Society, and is an expert on the history of the piano. #Groundbreaker
Preserving Her Legacy: Coming Together to Preserve the Legacy of Women Scientists on Wikipedia
- Date: April 17, 2012
- Description: Wikipedians and staff partnered together to improve Wikipedia content about women scientists who are found in the Archives.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Kelly Korreck
- Date: March 22, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
Link Love: 8/23/2019
- Date: August 23, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Pamela C. Rasmussen
- Date: July 12, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Lillian B. Miller
- Date: August 31, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Historian Lillian B. Miller was the 1st woman in her family to go to college, became a professor at age 23, was turned down for a job in the 50s since she was pregnant, and due to her seminal work on Charles Wilson Peale, landed a job with our National Portrait Gallery in the 70s. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Arianna Curtis
- Date: January 10, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dianne H. Pilgrim
- Date: June 14, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Louise Daniel Hutchinson
- Date: August 22, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Louise Daniel Hutchinson (1928-2014) was founding Research Director at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, now the Anacostia Community Museum, and was a pioneer in both oral and community history. #Groundbreaker.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Zora Martin Felton
- Date: August 29, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Zora Martin Felton was founding Director of the Education Department at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum for over thirty years. She served as Acting Director of the museum in 1989. #Groundbreaker