Description: Learn about the Smithsonian Institution Archive photographer, Michael Barnes, and his experience photographing Tuskegee Airmen and one of their original training planes.
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: Buildings on the National Mall, including temporary government buildings constructed during World War II, now the site of the National Museum of American History, the Department of Labor and Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) buildings, and the Departmental Auditorium, July 3, 1946, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-37403E.
Description: Jeanne Benas was an Assistant Registrar at the National Museum of Air and Space, 1982–85, and an Assistant Registrar and Registrar at the National Museum of American History, 1985–2015. She is a founding member of the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists. #Groundbreaker
Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.