Object Details
Author
Tsantes, John
Subject
Pragan, Gina
McKie, Laura
Demers, Barbara
Mead, Rebecca
Heard, Helen
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
Featured in Torch, January 1992 Supplement
Summary
Natural History docents threw a party in the Associates Court Dining Room for weekday Highlights Docent Gina Pragan, who turned 90 on June 20. Pictured are: Gina Pragan (front row, second from right) with, from left, Docent Barbara Demers, Assistant Director for Education Laura McKie, Education Specialist Rebecca Mead (with beads), Docent Helen Heard & a host of other well-wishing docents and staffers. Pragan came into the program in 1975, when she was recruited with other volunteers who could speak various languages for the expected influx of foreign visitors during the Bicentennial. Pragan, a native of Poland, speaks Polish and German. She has stayed on ever since, giving tours in English that cover the whole museum and take approximately two hours.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 98-015 Box 2
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1991
Standard number
SIA2010-1577 and 91-8987-12A
Restrictions & Rights
Unknown
Type
Photographic print
Group, candid
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Data Source
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
Topic
Volunteers
Museum docents
Volunteer workers in museums
Associates Court Dining Room
Record ID
siris_sic_7073