left to right: Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003)

Subject: Escallon, Marion Schmidt 1912-2003, Sinclair Oil Company, Geological Survey (U.S.), University of Michigan, Texaco (Colombia), Petroleum.....Type: Black-and-white photographs.....Date: 1937, Dec-37.....Topic: Paleontology. Women scientists.....Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2746].....Summary: Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003), Sinclair Oil Company paleontologist, at a U.S. Geological Survey meeting, December 1937. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of Michigan, she was first woman employed as a petroleum exploration geologist at both the Sinclair and Texaco oil companies and ran Texaco's office in Colombia during the late 1930s.....Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives.....Persistent URL:Link to data base record ( siris_arc_306452 ) .....Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives.....View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. ( http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=&fq=object_type:Photographs&fq=online_media_type:Images&view=grid&repo=flickr )