scientific illustration
Meet Serena Katherine “Violet” Dandridge, Suffragist and Scientific Illustrator
Serena Katherine “Violet” Dandridge (1878-1956) was one of the Smithsonian’s first female scientific illustrators and a supporter of women’s suffrage. Dandridge grew up in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1896 to study art.
Bone To Book–
Natural History is more than just bones and fossils in a museum drawer…
Studying natural history is about discovering objects in the natural world and translating their meaning into scientific knowledge. Whales—From Bone to Book, a Smithsonian Libraries exhibition located in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, traces the fascinating journey of how Smithsonian scientists study the largest and most intelligent mammals on the planet: whales.
