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    1. Portrait of African American woman with head resting in hand in front of colorful abstract art.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Rhea Combs

      • Date: November 29, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: As head of the Center for African American Media Arts, National Museum of African American History and Culture, curator Dr. Rhea Combs leads effort to collect, preserve, and make accessible an extensive collection of films, photographs, and recordings documenting African American history. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme

      • Date: February 1, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, worked her way up from clerk to curator of physical anthropology researching variations of human traits from region to region over time. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Nancy Bercaw

      • Date: December 27, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Nancy Bercaw, co-curator of the “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit, National Museum of African American History and Culture, oversaw a slave cabin's move from Edisto Island, South Carolina to the Smithsonian: “I have to see it where it was...I felt like I needed to meet people as well.” #Groundbreaker

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    7. Curator of textiles, Grace Rogers Cooper

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Rodris Roth

      • Date: May 18, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Curator of textiles, Grace Rogers Cooper, National Museum of History and Technology (now National Museum of American History) was the 1st woman to serve as president of the North American Vexillological Association. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marie-Hélène Sachet

      • Date: June 26, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Marie-Hélène Sachet joined the Smithsonian in 1966 as a special advisor in tropical botany at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. When the program ended in 1968, she was transferred to the Department of Botany, where she remained, eventually serving as a curator in the division, until her death in 1986. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Joan W. Nowicke

      • Date: November 13, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Joan W. Nowicke, Curator, Department of Botany, was an internationally recognized palynologist specializing in pollen morphology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1972–99. Nowicke earned special recognition in the 1980s for her work studying “Yellow Rain,” which some governments alleged was a form of chemical biological warfare. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Cari Corrigan

      • Date: February 15, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Watch Dr. Corrigan give a tour of the meteorite collections. Geologist & Curator of Antarctic Meteorites, Dr. Cari Corrigan, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, studies meteorites from the Moon, Mars and asteroids to understand how the Solar System formed and how the impact cratering process affects these planetary materials. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Luvenia A. George

      • Date: February 24, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • 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.

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    17. Curator of textiles, Grace Rogers Cooper

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Grace Rogers Cooper

      • Date: May 11, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Curator of textiles, Grace Rogers Cooper, National Museum of History and Technology (now National Museum of American History) was the 1st woman to serve as president of the North American Vexillological Association. #Groundbreaker

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    19. Biologist and curator of mammals at the National Museum of Natural History, Viola Shelly Schantz was one of the founding members of the American Society of Mammalogists and one of the premier mammalogists of her day. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Viola Shelly Schantz

      • Date: August 26, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Biologist and curator of mammals at the National Museum of Natural History, Viola Shelly Schantz was one of the founding members of the American Society of Mammalogists and one of the premier mammalogists of her day. #Groundbreaker

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    21. Dr. Jun Wen, botanist, evolutionary biologist and research curator, National Museum of Natural History, is an expert on the systematics and biogeography of the ginseng family (Araliaceae) and the grape family (Vitaceae). #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Jun Wen

      • Date: November 11, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Jun Wen, botanist, evolutionary biologist and research curator, National Museum of Natural History, is an expert on the systematics and biogeography of the ginseng family (Araliaceae) and the grape family (Vitaceae). #Groundbreaker

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      Internal Announcement of the American Womens History Initiative

      • Date: February 12, 2018
      • Creator: Davis, John 1961 September 24-
      • Creator: Davis, John 1961 September 24-

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