Description: Margaret Brown Klapthor, National Museum of American History, was an expert on White House history, curated the Smithsonian’s First Ladies collection, and wrote several books on First Ladies history. #Groundbreaker
Description: Rotunda of the United States National Museum Natural History Building, now known as National Museum of Natural History, 1913, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 22339.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="439" caption="Bird storage on the third floor of the National Museum of Natural History on January 15, 1911, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 6, Negative Number: 24055."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Sculptor Mario Martini's "Juggler" at the entrance to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1974, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder November 1974, Negative Number: 92-1644."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="341" caption="Storage cases in the Paleontology Laboratory in the National Museum of Natural History on January 15, 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 6, Negative Number: 24046."][/caption]
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: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Photograph of airmail planes at Elko, Nevada, by unknown photographer, c. 1920, Smithsonian National Postal Museum."][/caption] Just last week, we uploaded some new photos of early US airmail from the National Postal Museum to the “People and the Post” set on the Flickr Commons. I was immediately drawn in by the portraits
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="DeCarlo Wiley, National Air and Space Museum guard and Smithsonian basketball team guard, 1978, by Susan Foster, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder April 1978, Negative Number: 94-2879."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904, Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum exhibit includes the Langley Aerodrome, a model of a whale suspended from the ceiling, natural history exhibits, archaeological objects, and industrial machines, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the