Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="403" caption="Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1964-1984) shows the Beatles' Rolls-Royce to Caron Carter, 11 July 1978, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder August 1978, Negative Number: 94-8341."][/caption]
Description: When did women begin to manage Smithsonian museums? Meet Grace Dunham Guest who was a key staff member in opening the Freer Gallery of Art in 1923.
Description: Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley at Quantico, Virginia, on the day of the test flight of Aerodrome No. 5 on the Potomac River, by Alexander Graham Bell, MAH-18836.
Description: Spacesuit Curator, Amanda Young, started at the National Air and Space Museum as a secretary and moved her way up to being in charge of conserving the museum's more than 200 spacesuits. #Groundbreaker
Description: Dr. Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, has created numerous exhibitions on the arts of the Islamic world, and twice received the Smithsonian Secretary's prestigious research prize. #Groundbreaker
Description: Former Under Secretary of the Smithsonian (1992-2000), Constance Berry Newman, also served 7 Presidential appointments in the U.S. federal government, 5 of which required Senate confirmations. #Groundbreaker
Description: Dr. Karen Y. Lemmey is the Smithsonian American Art Museum's curator of sculpture, the largest collection of American sculpture in the world, and won a 2017 Secretary's Research Prize.
Description: Secretary-elect Lonnie G. Bunch III after his appointment as associate chair of the Department of Social and Cultural History at National Museum of American History, October 4, 1991, SIA Acc. 11-009, 91-15620-06.
Description: Donation of Betty Ford dress to collection of First Ladies gowns at National Museum of History and Technology, now known as National Museum of American History, with Frankie Welch, fashion designer, First Lady Betty Ford, and Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, 76-7870-11A.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927) Charles D. Walcott at camp in the field with four unidentified men, One man is sharpening an ax blade, The other three men are in the process of skinning some small animals, either beavers or woodchucks, Date unknown, some time in the 1910s or 1920s, by
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