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Eleanor Plunkette Brown (b. 1887)

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Description: During the 1930s, when this photograph was taken, Eleanor Plunkette Brown was National Secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Blindness; by 1944, now married, Eleanor Brown Merrill was the Society's Executive Director and had been elected the first woman president of the National Health Council...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print..: photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5776 ( http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5776 ) ..Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives ..Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities...Accession number: SIA2007-0409

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1930 - 1939
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Smithsonian Portraits of Women Scientists

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1000, Jefferson Drive Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20560 ,  38.88879, -77.02602
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