Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

American Pacific Industrial Corporation - T.L. Shang, who was with the Chinese Aeronautical Commission, an early Chinese Air Force type organization, founded by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, and connected with Claire Chennault's American Volunteer Group-Flying Tigers. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. SIA2008-1644.

Mitsuhara Ishikawa was a Japanese botanist and plant collector. He was photographed while attending the International Congress of Plant Sciences, Cornell University, August 16-23, 1926, and is holding a copy of the program. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. SIA2008-4281.

The University of Pittsburgh team that was working towards the synthesis of insulin, 1963. With (at right) team leader Dr. Panayotis G. Katsoyannis, associate professor of biochemistry in the school of medicine; (left to right) Dr. Kouhei Fukuda, Japanese postdoctural fellow studying at Pitt, and Andrew Tometsko, an American graduate student, October 14, 1963. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. SIA2008-4571.

Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853-1931), Japanese physician and bacteriologist. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. SIA2008-4865.

Anna Chao Pai was a predoctoral student in the Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, working with Dr. Salome Waelsch on developmental genetics and cross-breeding special strains of mice. Chao immigrated to the United States in 1940 with her family and graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1957. Copyright: Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. SIA2009-0795.

National Museum of Natural History Foreign Language Tour Guides, including Yumiko Gillepsie, Japanese, and Kaoru Fukumoto, Japanese. Other docents in the program but not in the picture are Toshiko Takeuchi, Japanese; Teiko Hirasawa, Japanese, 1976. Record Unit 371 - Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. 2009-3229.

Dr. Robert Kho-Seng Lim, Director of the Chinese Medical Relief Corps since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities in 1937, received much of his support from United China Relief. He was a former professor of Physiology at the Rockefeller-Endowed peiping Union Medical Hospital, May 23, 1942. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. SIA2010-2217.