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Creator: Smithsonian Institution..Subject: Greenwood, Edna Muriel Hilburn Little 1888-1972. Carmichael, Leonard 1898-. National Museum of American History (U.S.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1956.. More

90-105, 9, Portraits Gui-Guz; "Helen Marie Gunz served as Assistant Librarian at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, with Hazel Gay (see SIA Digital No. 2008-1852)."

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Meitner, Lise 1878-1968. Hahn, Otto 1879-1968..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1913..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-3209]..S More

Description: After earning her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, Emma Perry Carr (1880-1972) taught in the department of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College until becoming professor emeritus in 1946. A pionee More

90-105, 13, "Portraits, Maca-Macz"; "Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974) was a chemist-nutritionist who moved to Texas Women’s University from Penn State in the early 1950s. Skilled at administration and at o More

Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-..Subject: Teschan, Paul E. 1923-. Davis, Watson 1896-1967. Prajmovsky, Marina 1924-1974. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1942..Topic: Science fairs. Women More

Description: Mildred Adams Fenton (1899-1995) trained in paleontology and geology at the University of Iowa. She coauthored dozens of general science books with her husband, Carroll Lane Fenton, including Reco More

Subject: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne 1900-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Astrophysics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1325]..Summary: Cec More

Subject: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne 1900-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Astrophysics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1326]..Summary: Cec More

Subject: Van de Water, Marjorie 1900-1962. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Psychology. Sociology. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-0300]..Summary: From 1 More

90-105, 9B, "Portraits, Hoa-Hog"; "Marian G. Hogan was described on the reverse of the photograph as ""President of Weatter [or Wealter] Services, Inc., 41 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Massachusetts."""

Subject: Van de Water, Marjorie 1900-1962. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Sociology. Psychology. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-0291]..Summary: From 1 More

Subject: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne 1900-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Astrophysics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1328]..Summary: Cec More

90-105, 9, "Greig, Mary- Griffith, Igor"; "Mary Greig was an assistant in the department of public health, American Museum of Natural History, New York."

Subject: Rock, John. Lasker, Mary. Pierson, Richard N. 1929-. Trowbridge, Cornelius P. c. 1898-1973. Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Harvard Medical School..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 19 More

Subject: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne 1900-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Astrophysics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1327]..Summary: Cec More

Description: From 1929 until 1962, Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962) covered advances in psychology and sociology for Science Service, winning several journalism awards and the admiration of social scientists f More

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hars-Hart"; "Constance Endicott Hartt (1900-1984), known for her research on sugarcane, had taught biology at St. Lawrence University and Connecticut College for Women before moving to H More

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Kin-Kiq"; "Eleanor Anthony King (1901-1949) editor of Audubon Magazine and author of Bible Plants for American Gardens (Macmillan, 1941)."

90-105, 9, Portraits Gov-Goz; "Charlotte Gower Chapman (1902-1982), an ethnologist and author of Milocca: A Sicilian Village, was teaching at Lingnan University in China when the United States entered World War More

Description: G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper (1902-2000) and his wife, Josephine Cooper, are shown here at work in his office in the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, United States National Museum, now th More

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Leakey, Louis S.B."; "Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-1972) and his wife, archeologist and anthropologist Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey (1913-1996), digging at Oduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa."

Creator: American Ornithologists' Union..Subject: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-1978. Wetmore, Annie Beatrice. Aldrich, John W (John Warren) 1906-. American Ornithologists' Union..Type: Black-and-white photographs..D More

90-105, 9B, Biog. Hus-Hy; "Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969) graduated from the University of Chicago in 1910 and earned a Ph.D. degree from Chicago in 1915. She stayed at the university with an appointment a More

Subject: Briggs, Frank P. 1894-1992. Shantz, Viola Shelly 1895-1977. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1962..Topic: Women scient More

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Thone, Frank 1891-. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1945..Topic: Science fairs..Local number: SIA RU007091 [SIA2007-0007]..Summary: Science Service b More

Description: Mary Knight Dunlap (1910-1992), daughter of the psychologist Knight Dunlap (1875-1949), was the founder of the Association for Women Veterinarians...Creator/Photographer: Julian Scott..Medium: Blac More

Subject: Foster, Margaret D (Margaret Dorothy) b. 1895. Geological Survey (U.S.). Manhattan Project (U.S.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919..Topic: Women scientists..Local number: SIA RU007421 [SI More

Description: The physician Mary Steichen Calderone (1904-1998) became a prominent public figure as the Director of Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, a post she held from 1954 to 1982.. More

Description: When this photograph was taken in 1935, Dr. Alix Churchill (seated in center), Associate Secretary General of the International Association for Prevention of Blindness and Executive Secretary of th More

Description: The caption accompanying this 1961 image reads: "Mrs. Carl Gibson who as Jane Blankenship won high science honors in school, combines her scientific work with advanced studies and homemaking." As More

Description: After Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978) received an A.M. in botany from Stanford University (1916), she joined the research and curatorial staff of the university's Dudley Herbarium. T More

Subject: Scoville, Mildred Clare c. 1892-1969. National Committee for Mental Hygiene..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Social workers. Mental health..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2701]..Summa More

Description: Arlene Frances Fung was a native of Trinidad who had attended medical school in Ireland and in 1968 was doing chromosome research at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia...Creator/Phot More

Description: British botanist Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (1901-1957), born in Leigh, Lancashire, is best known for her research on the edible seaweed Porphyra laciniata (nori). Her analysis of the nori lifecycle More

Creator: Briggs, C.A..Subject: Meitner, Lise 1878-1968. Catholic University of America..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1946..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-59 More

Subject: McIver, Pearl. United States Public Health Service. United States Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare Office of the Secretary..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1955..Topic: Nursing. Women s More

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Ker-Kez"; Geneticist Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key (b. 1872) was the author of Heredity and Social Fitness (1920).

Description: In 1963, when this photograph was taken, Patricia Brown (b. 1928) was a chemical engineer working at Texas Instruments and had just been elected president of the Society of Women Engineers...Creato More

Subject: Thompson, Margaret Dora 1900-. University of California (1868-1952)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Zoology..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-4147]..Summary: Zoologist Margaret Dora Th More

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Har"; "From 1916 to 1957, Harvard College astronomer Margaret Harwood (1885-1979) directed the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island, and ran its female-founded and female-run n More

Subject: Payne, Eugene H. Rebstock, Mildred Catherine 1919-2011. Parke-Davis Research Laboratories..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Pharmacology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA20 More

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1958..Topic: Science fairs. Women scientists. Physics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1510]..Sum More

Description: The distinguished British botanist Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968) taught at Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1926, Science News Letter reported that "plants as well as animals have More

Description: Famous as a child prodigy, Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane (1913-1998) published her first book at age ten and later became a professor of literature. This photograph was used to illustrate a news story More

Description: Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) is shown here (at right) with actress Katherine Cornell and physicist Arthur H. Compton on June 6, 1946, when Meitner and Cornell were receiving awa More

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Har"; "From 1916 to 1957, Harvard College astronomer Margaret Harwood (1885-1979) directed the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island, and ran its female-founded and female-run n More

Subject: Breit, Marjorie MacDill 1896-1987. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Journalism, Scientific. Zoology. Ecology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5654]..S More

Description: Ava Helen Miller Pauling (1903-1981) was a noted pacifist, human rights activist, and conservationist, and a leader in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, American Civil Liberti More

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1509]..Summary: In 1963, Chien-shiung More

Description: When she retired in 1961, Hazel Gay had served for 45 years as head librarian at the American Museum of Natural History in New York...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black More

Description: Carolina Amor de Fournier was associated with the Mexican journal La Prensa Médica Mexicana and was editor of Hummingbirds and Orchids of Mexico (1963)...Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium: More

Description: Biochemist Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984) were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for their work on how the human body metab More

Description: Born in England, the botanist Ethel Mary Doidge (1887-1965) immigrated to South Africa as a child, was educated at the University of the Cape of Good Hope, and became one of the pioneers in South A More

Description: During the early 1960s, Josephine G. Fountain, a registered nurse who worked at the University of Florida Teaching Hospital and Clinics, invented the "Direct Suction Tracheotomy Tube" (U.S. Patent More

Description: A distinguished poet, scholar of Italian classics, and chronicler of Scandinavian literature, Frederika Vern Blankner (1901-1989) was a graduate of the University of Chicago. For many years, she c More

Subject: Collett, Stella Pecelj c. 1921-2010. Bell & Howell Co. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1414]..Summary: Stella Pecelj Collett (ca. 1922-201 More

90-105, 7, Portraits Fla-Flem; "Regina Flannery Herzfeld (1904-2004), one of the first female anthropologists in the United States, was a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Catholic University, 1935-1 More

Description: Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Brown University but is best known, along with her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth, for revolutionizing management techniques. I More

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Ham"; "This image of Professor and Mrs. H.C. Hamilton being photographed by psychologist Weston Ashmore Bousfield (1904-1986) was made by Marjorie Van de Water at an American Psychologic More

90-105, 7, Portraits Fla-Flem; "Regina Flannery Herzfeld (1904-2004), one of the first female anthropologists in the United States, was a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Catholic University, 1935-1 More

90-105, 10, "Portraits, Jeg-Jen"; Carnegie Museum botanist Otto Emery Jennings (1877-1964) and Grace Emma Kinzer Jennings (d. 1957). Grace Jennings was a fourth-generation Pittsburgher whose family had establi More

Creator: American Association of University Women..Subject: Russell, Elizabeth Shull 1913-2001. University of Michigan. Columbia University. University of Chicago. Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Me.)..Type: Bl More

Subject: Seibert, Florence Barbara 1897-1991. Goucher College. Yale University. University of Pennsylvania. American Chemical Society. Henry Phipps Institute..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women sci More

Description: Wanda Margarite Kirkbride (b. 1895) was completing graduate work in chemistry at Columbia University when she met and married Clifford Harrison Farr. When Clifford died in 1928, while they were li More

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hav-Haz"; Lillian Josephine Hawes (b. 1905) graduated from Stanford University in 1928 and first served as a public health nurse in Los Angeles. This photograph was distributed when she More

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 More

90-105, 9B, "Portraits, Hum-Hunt"; "Geneticist Katherine Pattee Hummel (b. 1904) taught at Carleton College, Mt. Holyoke College, Cornell University, and Rutgers University before joining The Jackson Laboratory More

Description: Odd Dahl (1899-1994) was a Norwegian adventurer who had no formal scientific training but later made great contributions to research on atomic energy. He read physics while a member of Roald Amund More

90-105, 9B, Portraits Hir; "Biochemist and bacteriologist Ruby Hirose researched serums and antitoxins at the William S. Merrell Laboratories. In 1940, Hirose was among ten women recognized by the American Che More

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Kol-Koz (2)"; "Ethel R. Kovach Scott (1918?-2004), fourth chief nurse of the U.S. Air Force, helped write the first flight nurse manual and establish the aerospace nursing course to supp More

Description: In 1946, when this photograph was taken, Mary Blade was the only woman on the Cooper Union engineering faculty (where she initially taught drawing, mathematics and design) and one of few women on a More

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Meitner, Lise 1878-1968. Catholic University of America..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1946..Topic: Science fairs. Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. More

Subject: Wuellner, Flora Slosson. University of Michigan. University of Chicago..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1945..Topic: Congregationalists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3421]..Summary: More

Creator: Burrows, Ted..Subject: Pai, Anna C. 1935-. Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Sweet Briar College..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Genetics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 More

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Kella-Kelln"; "New England industrialist Vivien Kellems (1896-1975) co-founded Kellems Cable Grips Inc., in 1927, with her brother, who had patented a special grip design that became wid More

Creator: Wain & Baruch..Subject: Sheahan, Marion Winifred 1892-1994. National Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Services. American Public Health Association. National Organization for Public Health Nursi More

Subject: Macfarlane, Catharine 1877-1969..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1940. C. 1940s..Topic: Gynecology. Cancer--Research. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5682]..Summary: C More

Subject: McClintock, Barbara 1902-1992. Carnegie Institution of Washington Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. American Association of University Women..Type: Black-and-white pho More

Creator: Lebenthal, James..Subject: Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956. Joliot-Curie, Frédéric..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1940. 1940s..Topic: Physics. Women scientists. Nobel Prizes..Local number: More

Creator: Beutler, Margarete 1876-1949..Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Lee, Y. K. Mo, L. W. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1963. 3/20/1963..Topic: Physics. Van de Graa More

Description: Trained as an anatomist, Katharine J. Scott Bishop (1889-1976) graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1915 and, working with Herbert M. Evans, discovered the importance of Vi More

Description: From 1925 to 1956, William M. Mann (1886-1960) was Director of the National Zoological Park. His wife, Lucile Quarry Mann (1897-1986) often accompanied him on collecting trips. In 1940 the Mann's w More

Description: In 1943, when this photograph was taken, Women's Army Corps Lt. Margaret V. Dunham was conducting research in the Chemical Warfare Service's Medical Division at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. A More

Creator: Sonntag, W. A..Subject: Miller, Lois Mattox..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1958..Topic: Cigarette filters. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-6135]..Summary: Maga More

90-105, 9B, "Portraits - Hitchcock, R.C."; "This Fremont Davis photograph of participants in the 8th Science Talent Institute, March 1949, shows (left to right): Laveta Audrey Johnson, age 17, Oak Park, Illinoi More

Description: Although she majored in chemistry at Smith College, Jane Stafford (1899-1991) spent most of her career communicating about medicine. Stafford worked at the American Medical Association before join More

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1958. 3/15/1958..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1512]..Summary More

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Lan"; "Geneticist Mathilde Margarethe Lange (1888-1974?) earned her doctorate in zoology in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1920 and, after returning to the United States, became a professor at More

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Leg-Lep"; "This photograph of Lucile Petry Leone (1902-1999) was distributed when she retired in 1966 as Assistant Surgeon General and Chief Nurse Officer of the U.S. Public Health Servi More

Subject: Stafford, Jane 1899-1991. Smith College. American Medical Association. Science Service. National Institutes of Health (U.S.). National Association of Science Writers. Women's National Press Club (U.S.) More

Subject: Stafford, Jane 1899-1991. Smith College. Science Service. American Medical Association. National Institutes of Health (U.S.). National Association of Science Writers. Women's National Press Club (U.S.) More

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hav-Haz"; "In 1950, microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1888-1975) and chemist Rachel Brown (1898-1980), Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Alban More

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1958..Topic: Physics. Women scientists. Science fairs..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1511]..Sum More

Subject: Stafford, Jane 1899-1991. Smith College. American Medical Association. Science Service. National Institutes of Health (U.S.). National Association of Science Writers. Women's National Press Club (U.S.) More

Description: Col. Ruby Ficklin Bryant (1906-2002) played an important role during the Korean War as Chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1951-1955...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black More

Description: Biologist Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) began her career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service but achieved fame and social influence with publication of such popular books as The Sea Around U More

Description: In 1938, when this publicity photograph was taken, physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) worked at General Electric Research Laboratories, where she did important research in surface chemis More

Subject: Rebstock, Mildred Catherine 1919-2011. Parke, Davis & Company..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1951..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientists. Antibiotics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-214 More

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Anderson, Taimi Toffer 1937-..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1956..Topic: Science fairs. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-0105]..Summary: In More