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  1. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Gina Pragan

    • Date: November 14, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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  3. A woman works on a ceramic bowl at a desk. She is holding a tool that looks like a paint brush.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dorothy Briggs

    • Date: May 6, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Helen James

    • Date: September 26, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Dr. Helen James, Curator of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, studies fossil evidence of birds and developed ways to use modern techniques, such as carbon dating, to understand evolutionary and ecological context. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amy Henderson

    • Date: September 5, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Amy Henderson, Curator Emerita at the National Portrait Gallery, studies the lively arts and celebrity culture; writing books and exhibits on Elvis Presley, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Graham, and pioneers in early broadcasting. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Nancy Pope

    • Date: January 17, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Chief curator of the National Postal Museum’s history department, Nancy Pope has been a prolific writer popularizing postal history with fascinating stories and exhibits on zip codes, postal transportation, and postal mascots & workers! #Groundbreaker

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  11. A crowd stands in front of the architectural history office booth, which Field is standing behind.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Cynthia R. Field

    • Date: October 7, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • 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.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Pam Wintle

    • Date: March 29, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: One of the 1st female moving image archivists in the U.S., Pam Wintle, founded the Human Studies Film Archives (now the National Anthropological Film Collection) in 1981 which contains over 5,000 hours of moving images spanning most of the 20th century. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Shari Rosenstein Werb

    • Date: July 15, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • 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.

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  17. Portrait of Nancy Gwinn.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn

    • Date: September 30, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • 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.

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  19. Staff Scientist Emirata, Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies why some organisms live in societies & is noted for arguing that phenotypic & developmental plasticity play a key role in sharing animal evolution. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard

    • Date: July 1, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Staff Scientist Emirata, Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies why some organisms live in societies & is noted for arguing that phenotypic & developmental plasticity play a key role in sharing animal evolution. #Groundbreaker

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  21. Biologist Betty Jane Landrum (far right) worked at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (1965-1989) supporting systematic research all over the world. She was awarded the Smithsonian Career Service award in 1976 and was honored for her contributions to Antarctic research with the naming of a geographic feature, Landrum Island. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Betty Jane Landrum

    • Date: June 3, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In Memoriam: Betty Jane Landrum, longtime partner and wife of reference archivist, Ellen Alers. Biologist Betty Jane Landrum (far right) worked at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (1965-1974) supporting systematic research all over the world. She was awarded the Smithsonian Career Service award in 1976 and was honored for her contributions to Antarctic research

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Linda Edquist

    • Date: June 12, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Linda Edquist, Conservator and Head of Preservation, National Postal Museum, 1993–2018, managed conservation projects, staff, and exhibitions at the museum. Edquist first arrived at the Smithsonian as a Conservation Technician at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 1990–92. #Groundbreaker

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