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Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: Miscellany; Drawing

SIA2008-2203 - Public domain portrait print

90-105, 9, Portraits Hall (only); "Sophronia Brooks Hall (1827-1885), an 1850 graduate of Oberlin College, was mother of scientist Charles Martin Hall, who endowed an Oberlin auditorium in her honor."

Winifred Phillips Hathaway - Public domain photogrpaph

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Has-Hau"; "Winifred Phillips Hathaway (1870?-1954), Associate Director, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, had just received the Leslie Dana Gold Medal at the June 1937 As... More

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield SIA2008-1818 first lady

90-105, 8, Portraits Gar; "Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1832-1918), wife of President James A. Garfield. The caption to this photo notes that ""Lucretia Garfield lived to the ripe old age of 85."""

Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954)

Subject: Moody, Agnes Mary Claypole 1870-1954..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1024]..Summary: Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954), zoologist... More

First Ladies Gowns, Julia Dent Grant

Description: Gown worn by Julia Dent Grant, wife of President (1869-1877) Ulysses S. Grant first lady of the White House, . This gown was worn by Mrs. Grant at the second inaugural ball in 1873. It is made of w... More

May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858-1943)

Subject: Slosson, May Gorslin Preston 1858-1943. Cornell University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Suffragists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3435]..Summary: May Gorslin Preston Slosson (18... More

Emma Perry Carr (1880-1972) - Public domain photogrpaph

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

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947; A...

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947; M...

Pauline Gracia Beery Mack, scientist

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

Mildred Adams Fenton (1899-1995)

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

Smithsonian receives portrait of famed suffrage leader. Washington, D....

A black and white photo of two people shaking hands. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marian G. Hogan, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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."""

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), c. 1935

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956. Joliot-Curie, Frédéric..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1935..Topic: Physics. Women scientists. Nobel Prizes..Local number: SIA Acc.... More

Zoologist Elizabeth T. Kinney, scientist

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Kin-Kiq"; Zoologist Elizabeth T. Kinney was at the University of Pittsburgh when this photograph was taken.

Mr. A. H. O. Rolle, Smithsonian Institution archives

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878..Type: Photographic print. Person, candid..Date: 1936..Topic: Exhibit cases. Men..Standard number: SIA2012-1054 and 32477-9..Physical description: Number of Images: ... More

Mary Greig, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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."

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

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

Eleanor Anthony King, scientist

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)."

Susan B. Anthony with seven other women

Susan Brownell Anthony, (February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was a prominent a prominent American suffragist leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the Unite... More

Nellie A. Brown (1876-1956) - Public domain botanical illustration

Description: A plant pathologist, Nellie A. Brown (1876-1956) was a member of Torrey Botanical Club while doing postgraduate work at University of California. She began working for U.S. Department of Agricultu... More

Libbie Henrietta Hyman, scientist

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

Minna P. Gill, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Description: During the 1910s, as a young woman, Washington, D.C., native Minna P. Gill was active in the women's suffrage movement and participated in many demonstrations for women's rights. After earning her... More

Mary Knight Dunlap (1910-1992), scientist

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

Miss Gail Laughlin, of Portland, member of the Maine Legislature and N...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Gail Laughlin, facing forward, high lace collar. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 3, no. 23 (Ju... More

Wyoming native June Etta Downey

90-105, 7, Portraits Dos-Doz; "Wyoming native June Etta Downey (1875-1932) was a professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Wyoming, 1915-1932. She became close friends with chemist E.E. Sloss... More

Florence Hedges - Public domain portrait print

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hea-Hed"; "Florence Hedges (1878-1956) was a pioneering plant pathologist who worked for most of her career at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry."

Hazel Gay, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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

Carolina Amor de Fournier, scientist

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

Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks (b. 1890)

Description: Botanist Matilda Moldenhauer (b. 1890) was completing graduate work at Harvard University (Ph.D., 1920) when she met biologist Sumner Cushing Brooks. During their marriage, Matilda and Sumner cond... More

Mary Steichen Calderone (1904-1998)

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

Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (1881-1963)

Description: Pathologist Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (1881-1963), shown in this 1927 photo, was co-developer of a vaccine for scarlet fever with her husband George Frederick Dick (1881-1967). Born in Nebraska, Gl... More

Pearl McIver (1893-1976), scientist

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

SIA2008-2219, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9, Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden; "Lady Louise Alexandre Marie Irene Mountbatten (1889-1965) became Queen Louise of Sweden, the second wife of King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden in 1923 after the... More

Patricia Brown (b. 1928), scientist

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

Harvard College astronomer Margaret Harwood

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

SIA2008-2163 - Public domain portrait print

90-105, 9, Portraits Gui-Guz; Helen Cowen Gunsaulus (1886-1954) was curator of Japanese prints at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968), sitting in chair

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

Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane (1913-1998)

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

Ethel Mary Doidge (1887-1965), scientist

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

Josephine G. Fountain, scientist

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

Vera Katherine Charles (1877-1954)

Description: A graduate of Mt. Holyoke, mycologist Vera Katherine Charles (1877-1954) earned a Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1903 and then became a scientist at Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agr... More

Wiktorja S. Dembowski, scientist

Description: In 1927, biologist Wiktorja S. Dembowski worked at the M. Nencki Institute in Warsaw, Poland...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print..: photogr... More

Frederika Vern Blankner (1901-1989)

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

Frances Densmore (1867-1957), scientist

Description: Ethnologist Frances Densmore (1867-1957) spent much of her career working in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology and the Library of Congress, as she collected and p... More

Elizabeth M. Bright, sitting in lab

Description: Between 1918 and 1924, physiologist Elizabeth M. Bright, then affiliated with the Laboratory of Physiology, Harvard Medical School, worked on the effects of radiation, publishing in such journals a... More

Jane Blankenship Gibson - Public domain portrait print

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

Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978)

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

Mildred Clare Scoville (1892?-1969)

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

Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (1901-1957)

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

Marie Agnes Hinrichs - Public domain portrait print

90-105, 9B, Portraits Hin-Hjo-Hl; "Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892) received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1923. After teaching at the university from 1926 to 1934, Hinrichs received an ... More

Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (1872-1948)

Description: The biologist, Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie, was the first female member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and, in 1912, the first woman to be appointed as a university professor... More

Arlene Frances Fung, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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

Geneticist Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key

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

Margaret Alger Hayden, scientist

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hav-Haz"; Margaret Alger Hayden (b. 1884) was a professor of chemistry at Wellesley College during the 1920s.

Marjorie MacDill Breit (1896-1987)

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

Alice Brown (1857-1948), scientist

Description: Alice Brown (1857-1948) studied anatomy at Cornell University. When she published The Black Drop (1919), a novel with scientific themes, the publisher emphasized that its "main character inherits ... More

Carrie M. Derick (1862-1941), standing outside building

Description: The botanist Carrie M. Derick (1862-1941) was the first female university professor in Canada, and became a full professor at McGill University in 1912. This photograph may have been taken by jour... More

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Andrewena Robinson Davis

Description: Andrewena Robinson Davis. Daughter of F. E. Robinson, owner of the Dayton drugstore. Taken during the time of the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee. July 1925..Creator/Photograp... More

Alice Paul conferring with English members of newly formed Internation...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul and English feminists seated and standing in room, (left to right, seated) Alice Paul, Elizabeth Robins, Viscountess Rhondda, Dr. Louisa Martindale... More

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: George Washington Rappleyea

Description: Taken during the time of the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial. July 1925..Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium: Black and white photographic print..Dimensions: 4.25 in x 3 in..Culture: Amer... More

Lillian Josephine Hawes, scientist

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

Eleanor Plunkette Brown (b. 1887)

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

SIA2008-4515 - Public domain portrait print

90-105, 10, "Portraits, Jones K-Z"; "Phyllis Jones, May 7, 1935. Because her photograph was attached to a resume, this 28-year-old woman may have been applying to be a Science Service correspondent. Jones had... More

Elizabeth Shull Russell (1913-2001)

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

Marjorie Van de Water photograph of Patricia Ann Jacobsen

90-105, 10, "Portraits, Jacl - Jacz"; "Science Service psychology editor Marjorie Van de Water took this photograph of Patricia Ann Jacobsen, daughter of Yale University professor Carlyle Ferdinand Jacobsen (19... More

Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972)

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

(clockwise from left): Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884-1974...

Subject: Hedges, Florence 1878-1956. Quirk, Agnes J. Fox, Helen Morgenthau 1884-1974. Fawcett, Edna H. 1879-. United States Dept. of Agriculture..Type: Black-and-White Prints..Topic: Women scientists. Botany. P... More

Austrian research chemist Edith Kroupa

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Edith Kroupa"; "Austrian research chemist Edith Kroupa, 1934. The original caption dated September 18, 1934, reads: ""While revolution upset Vienna, Miss Edith Kroupa, research chemist ... More

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist. Prominent member [of] NWP [National Wom...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Dorothy Thompson, wearing fur. Courtesy of Bacharach Studio, 321 S. Washington St. Alexandria, VA. 22314.

Mary Smith Griffith, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9, "Griffith, M. E.- Gros, Edmund L."; "Mary Smith Griffith was author of Gardening on Nothing a Year, which had just been published by Hale, Cushman & Flint in 1937, when this photograph was distributed."

Katharine J. Scott Bishop (1889-1976), sitting in lab

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

Vivien Kellems, scientist, engineer

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

Marion Winifred Sheahan, R.N. (1892-1994)

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

Catherine Macfarlane (1877-1969)

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

Ethel R. Kovach Scott, scientist

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

Flora May Slosson Wuellner, scientist

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

Dottie Schroeder, catcher, shouting play ball

Local call number: c009837. .Title: Dottie Schroeder, catcher, shouting play ball. . .Date: Photographed on April 22, 1948.. .Physical descrip: 1 photoprint : b&w ; 5 x 4 in.. .Series Title: (Department of Com... More

Jane Stafford (1899-1991) - Public domain portrait print

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

SIA2008-4008, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9B, "Portraits, Howard (various)"; "Janet Moore Howard was the daughter of entomologist and Science Service board member Leland Ossian Howard (1857-1950). In the late 1920s, Janet Howard worked on the ... More

SIA2008-4010, Smithsonian Institution archives

SIA2008-4011, Smithsonian Institution archives

SIA2008-4009, Smithsonian Institution archives

Margaret Clay Ferguson (1863-1951)

Description: Plant physiologist Margaret Clay Ferguson (1863-1951) earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University (1901) and taught at Wellesley College from 1893 to 1932. In 1929, she was elected president of the Bot... More

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964)

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

I do not refer to myself as a housewife for the reason that I did not ...

Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Anne S. Jones, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 10, "Portraits, Jones K-Z"; "This photograph of Anne S. Jones was distributed in connection with her appointment in April 1965 as a research associate at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphi... More

Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963), sitting at desk with specimens

Description: Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in South America, often personally funding her research trips, as it was considered inappropriate... More

Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey (1913-1996) and her husband Louis Seymour Ba...

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Leakey, Louis S.B."; "British archeologist and anthropologist Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey (1913-1996) and her husband Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-1972), 1962."

Feminism lives! - A black and white photo of a group of people

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The American woman spends 33.6 hours per week in personal grooming, 99...

Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

I can live alone if self-respect & circumstances require me to do so ....

"For the benefit of the Westchester Women's Federal Credit Union." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Look sister : Isis carries the moon on her head ..

Recorded on United States section of videodisc. Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

I swear it to you on my common woman's head, the common woman is as co...

Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks ...

Public domain photograph of Vietnam War, the 1960s, 1970s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

We celebrate women's struggles, we celebrate people's victories ... Pa...

Public domain photograph of Vietnam War, the 1960s, 1970s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Veronica Zavatone, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Creator: Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pa.)..Subject: Zavatone, Veronica. Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pa.). Womens Medical College of Philadelphia..Type: Black-and-white photogra... More