Description: Let’s learn about the history of Smithsonian Gardens’ annual orchid exhibit with a little help from former director Barbara Faust through her 2011 oral history interview.
Description: The life of Betty J. Meggers, an Anthropologist, who speciailized in pottery identification, conducted extensive field work in Amazon Rainforest region of South America, and was associated with the Smithsonian for more than five decades.
Description: In the course of my internship at the Smithsonian Archives’ Digital Services Division I’ve worked with myriad digital records, converting both new material and past accessions into formats that can be more easily preserved. But the most exciting part of my time here came when I was given my very own accession, the Devra G. Kleiman Papers, to work on. My task was to copy all of