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    Open daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

    Admission is always free!

    2 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.
    Washington, DC 20002

    The museum's main entrance is located on the corner of First Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE. Other entrances have variable hours.

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Women on Stamps: Part 2
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Changing Anthropology

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Women on Stamps: Part 2

  • Health: Saving Lives
    • Nursing
    • Caring for the Wounded in the Civil War
      • Elizabeth Blackwell
      • Clara Barton
      • Phoebe Pember
      • Mary Walker
    • Health and Social Reform
      • Dorothea Dix
      • Jane Addams
      • Dr. Alice Hamilton
    • Fighting Disease
      • Emily Bissell
      • Clara Maass
    • Expanding Healthcare
      • Mary Breckinridge
      • Virginia Apgar
    • Military Medics
  • Education: Enriching Lives
    • Mary Lyon
    • Mary McLeod Bethune
    • Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
    • Frances Elizabeth Willard
  • Science: Improving Lives
    • Changing Anthropology
      • Ruth Fulton Benedict
      • Margaret Mead
    • Barbara McClintock
    • Rachel Carson
    • Lillian Gilbreth
  • Professionals and Philanthropists: Enhancing Lives
    • Madam C.J. Walker
    • Moina Michael
    • Lila Wallace
    • Juliette Gordon Low and the Girl Scouts
  • Aviatrixes and Athletes: Inspiring Lives
    • Aviatrixes
      • Harriet Quimby
      • Bessie Coleman
      • Blanche Scott
      • Jacqueline Cochran
      • Amelia Earhart
    • Athletes
      • Hazel Wrightman
      • Babe Zaharias
      • Helene Madison
      • Wilma Rudolph
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