Description: Smithsonian Institution Archives historian and American University professor, Dr. Pamela Henson, has managed the Smithsonian's oral history program recording important moments in Smithsonian history since 1974, and received the Smithsonian Secretary’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service in 2014. #Groundbreaker
Description: Barbara Coffee, National Museum of American History's first museum-wide collections manager, was founding president of The Association of Museum Specialists, Technicians, and Aides which 'promote(d) high professional standards' of collections management, many of which are used today. #Groundbreaker
Description: Dr. Patricia Gossel, chairman of the Science, Medicine and Society Division, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, established the history of biology collection at the museum, studied the history of the contraceptive pill, and published more than two dozen scholarly articles before her death. #Groundbreaker
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Expedition Members Excavating Fossils, Scientific field research headed by Charles W. Gilmore, curator of vertebrate paleontology for the U.S.
Description: Donald J. Ortner, Division of Physical Anthropology museum technician, demonstrates use of equipment to study mineral concentration in bone on William H. Crocker, associate curator in the Division of Cultural Anthropology at the Museum of Natural History, MNH-1498D.
Description: Andreas Joseph Andrews, chief preparator in the Department of Anthropology Conservation Laboratory at the Museum of Natural History, sculpts model of face, October 19, 1967, SIA Acc. 11-008, OPA-1104-12.