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Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1843. Itatiaia from summit of Agulhas Negras.

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1843. Itatiaia from...

Creator: Mary Agnes Chase..Local number: SIA2012-3335a..Summary: SIA RU000229, Box 20, Folder 1; Photographs documenting Mary Agnes Chase's field work in Brazil, 1924-1925...Repository: Smithsonian Institution ... More

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1847. Itatiaia. Donna Maria and Agnes Chase at summit.

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1847. Itatiaia. Don...

Creator: Mary Agnes Chase..Local number: SIA2009-4227..Summary: SIA RU000229, Box 20, Folder 1; Photographs documenting Mary Agnes Chase's field work in Brazil, 1924-1925...Repository: Smithsonian Institution A... More

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), Sidney Stevens Walcott (1892-1977), and Helen Breese Walcott (1894-1965)

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), Sidney Stevens Walcott (1892-19...

Description: In 1909, while in the Canadian Rockies near Field, British Columbia, Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) discovered what has come to be known as the Burgess Shale. Named after Burgess Pass near t... More

Edna Greenwood (1888-1972), scientist

Edna Greenwood (1888-1972), scientist

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

Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847-1928) [unconfirmed]

Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847-1928) [unconfirmed]

Subject: Patterson, Flora W (Flora Wambaugh) 1847-1928. United States Dept. of Agriculture..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Mycology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1344]..Su... More

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family at "Olmsted," Provo, Utah

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family at "Olmsted," Provo, Utah

Description: Paleontologist and fourth Smithsonian Secretary Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) often took his family along on collecting trips. This photograph was taken around 1907 when the family stopped ... More

Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, Department of Agriculture display, food and drug inspections

Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, Department of Agricu...

Creator: Smillie, Thomas William 1843-1917..Subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1901..Topic: Women scientists..Local number: SIA RU000095 [SIA2008-2... More

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1851. Itatiaia.  Agulhas Negras  from side, at summit.

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1851. Itatiaia. Ag...

Creator: Mary Agnes Chase..Local number: SIA2012-3336a..Summary: SIA RU000229, Box 20, Folder 1; Photographs documenting Mary Agnes Chase's field work in Brazil, 1924-1925...Repository: Smithsonian Institution ... More

Helen Marie Gunz, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Helen Marie Gunz, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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)."

Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), working with crab specimens

Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), working with crab specimens

Description: Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943) worked for the United States Fish Commission and later at the United States National Museum in the Department of Marine Invertebrates. She began her work as an unpaid ... More

Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-1944)

Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-1944)

Subject: Maltby, Margaret Eliza 1860-1944. Göttingen University. Barnard College. American Association of University Women..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SI... More

Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), scientist

Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), scientist

Creator: Pearce, John Howard..Subject: Rathbun, Mary Jane 1860-1943. United States Fish Commission. United States National Museum Division of Marine Invertebrates..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1927.... More

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)

Subject: Curie, Marie 1867-1934..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Chemistry. Nobel Prizes. Physics. Radioactivity--History. Radium--History. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-074... More

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)

Description: Polish physicist Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, sharing it with her husband Pierre in 1903 for their work on radioactivity. After ... More

Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull

Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull

90-105, 9B, "Portraits, Hu-Hub"; "Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull (1884-1952); and psychologist James Burt Miner (1873-1943), taken by Marjorie Van de Water, at the American Psychological As... More

Winifred Phillips Hathaway - Public domain photogrpaph

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

Mary Knapp Strong Clemens (1873-1965) with Joseph Clemens (1862-1936)

Mary Knapp Strong Clemens (1873-1965) with Joseph Clemens (1862-1936)

Description: Mary Knapp Strong Clemens (1873-1965) is shown at the New York Botanical Garden with her husband, Joseph Clemens (1862-1936), an ordained Methodist minister who had become a U.S. Army Chaplain in 1... More

Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954)

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

Morton Churchill Mott-Smith (1877-1944) and his wife, Elvira G. Mott-Smith

Morton Churchill Mott-Smith (1877-1944) and his wife, Elvira G. Mott-S...

Subject: Mott-Smith, Morton Churchill 1877-1944. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1130]..Summary: left to right:... More

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Otto Hahn (1879-1968), Dahlem, Germany, 1913

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Otto Hahn (1879-1968), Dahlem, Germany, 1...

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

Portraits, Has-Hau, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Portraits, Has-Hau, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Has-Hau"; "(left to right): An unidentified woman (possibly Alice Haskins) sitting with U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, botanists Lucia McCulloch (1873-1955), C... More

May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858-1943)

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

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

Gabriele Rabel (b. 1880), scientist

Gabriele Rabel (b. 1880), scientist

Creator: Davis, Watson 1896-1967..Subject: Rabel, Gabriele. Science Service. University of Cambridge Archives. British Association for the Advancement of Science..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1938. ... More

Mechanical engineer Alfred E. Gibson

Mechanical engineer Alfred E. Gibson

90-105, 9, Unmarked Folder #1; "Mechanical engineer Alfred E. Gibson (b. 1883?) and his wife are shown observing a welding operation, 1938. The couple, who were both involved in The Wellman Engineering Company... More

Botanist Marian Irwin Osterhout

Botanist Marian Irwin Osterhout

90-105, 9B, "Portraits, In-Iz"; "Botanist Marian Irwin Osterhout (1888-1973) was educated at Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe (Ph.D., 1919) and later worked at Rockefeller Institute, 1925-1933. Her research specialty w... More

left to right: Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994), and Marian Irwin Osterhout (1889-1973)

left to right: Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), Linus Carl Pauling (190...

Subject: Morgan, Thomas Hunt 1866-1945. Pauling, Linus 1901-1994. Osterhout, Marian Irwin 1889-1973. California Institute of Technology. Bryn Mawr College. Radcliffe College. Rockefeller Institute for Medical R... More

Alice Freeland Maxwell (1890-1961)

Alice Freeland Maxwell (1890-1961)

Subject: Maxwell, Alice Freeland 1890-1961. University of California (1868-1952)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Obstetrics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5953]..Summary: A... More

Caroline Elizabeth Whitney (1899-1928)

Caroline Elizabeth Whitney (1899-1928)

Subject: Whitney, Caroline Elizabeth 1899-1928. Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) Medical School. Barnes Hospital (Saint Louis, Mo.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Medicine. Women scientists.... More

Alice Freeland Maxwell (1890-1961)

Alice Freeland Maxwell (1890-1961)

Subject: Maxwell, Alice Freeland 1890-1961. University of California (1868-1952)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Obstetrics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5950]..Summary: A... More

Pauline Gracia Beery Mack, scientist

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

Paul E. Teschan (1923- ), Watson Davis (1896-1967), and Marina Prajmovsky (1924-1974), 1942

Paul E. Teschan (1923- ), Watson Davis (1896-1967), and Marina Prajmov...

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

Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934), sitting at desk

Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934), sitting at desk

Description: Ichthyologist Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934) earned both the first (Syracuse, 1889) and second (Chicago, 1896) biology doctorates awarded to women in the United States. She spent most of her car... More

Child carrying baby, near Toluca [Mexico].

Child carrying baby, near Toluca [Mexico].

Local number: SIA2012-4582..Summary: SIA Acc. 11-093, Box 1, Folder Mary Agnes Chase Photograph Album 1898-1903; Photograph taken by Mary Agnes Chase or A. S. Hitchcock, documenting field work...Repository: Smi... More

Irrigation plant near Zacatecas [Mexico].

Irrigation plant near Zacatecas [Mexico].

Local number: SIA2012-4605..Summary: SIA Acc. 11-093, Box 1, Folder Mary Agnes Chase Photograph Album 1898-1903; Photograph taken by Mary Agnes Chase or A. S. Hitchcock, documenting field work...Repository: Smi... More

Steamer landing and rocky bluff on Yukon River, at Eagle, Alaska.

Steamer landing and rocky bluff on Yukon River, at Eagle, Alaska.

Local number: SIA2012-4544..Summary: SIA Acc. 11-093, Box 1, Folder Mary Agnes Chase Photograph Album 1898-1903; Photograph taken by Mary Agnes Chase or A. S. Hitchcock, documenting field work...Repository: Smi... More

Mildred Adams Fenton (1899-1995)

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

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

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

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1921

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1921

Creator: Stokley, James 1900-1990..Subject: Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956. Stokley, James 1900-1990. University of Pennsylvania..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1921..Topic: Physics. Women scientists.... More

Helen Redfield (b. 1900), scientist

Helen Redfield (b. 1900), scientist

Subject: Redfield, Helen 1900-. University of California (1868-1952). Stanford University. National Research Council (U.S.). Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Genetics. Women scient... More

Louise Harrison, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Louise Harrison, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Harr"; Louise Harrison is identified as conducting research in anatomy at the Medical School of Washington University.

left to right: Norman R. F. (Raymond Frederick) Maier (1900-1977), Nathan M. Glaser (d. 2011), and Barbara Jean Sherburne (Stewart) (b. 1914)

left to right: Norman R. F. (Raymond Frederick) Maier (1900-1977), Nat...

Subject: Maier, R. F (Raymond Frederick) 1900-1977. Glaser, Nathan M. Sherburne, Barbara Jean b. 1914. University of Michigan..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women scientists. Psychology..Local numbe... More

SIA2008-3528 coat of arms, scientist

SIA2008-3528 coat of arms, scientist

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

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

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

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

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

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

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

Marian G. Hogan, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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

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

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.

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

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

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

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

Louise Harrison, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Louise Harrison, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Harr"; Louise Harrison is identified as conducting research in anatomy at the Medical School of Washington University.

Mary Greig, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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."

Helen M. Hierholzer - Public domain portrait print

Helen M. Hierholzer - Public domain portrait print

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hia-Hig"; "Helen M. Hierholzer was a psychologist at Catholic University who, with Harriette E. Linfert, developed a scale for measuring the mental development of infants during the firs... More

left to right: John Rock, Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994), Richard Norris Pierson, Jr. (b. 1929), and Cornelius P. Trowbridge (1898?-1973)

left to right: John Rock, Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994), Richard Nor...

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

nnings"; "Johns Hopkins University protozoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868-1947) and his wife

nnings"; "Johns Hopkins University protozoologist Herbert Spencer Jenn...

90-105, 10, "Portraits, Herbert S. Jennings"; "Johns Hopkins University protozoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868-1947) and his wife. This is most likely his first wife, artist Mary Louise Burridge Jenning... More

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

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

Wilmatte Porter Cockerell (1871-1957) and Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948)

Wilmatte Porter Cockerell (1871-1957) and Theodore Dru Alison Cockerel...

Description: In this 1935 photograph, botanist Wilmatte Porter Cockerell (1871-1957) is shown with biologist Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948), whom she married in 1900. In 1901, he named the ultramari... More

Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox

Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hea-Hed"; "U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) botanists Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884-1974), and Florence Hedges (1878-1956). Quirk was assistant to the senior plant path... More

Eleanor Anthony King, scientist

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)."

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1901. Serra do Cipó. Composite tree. A.C.'s 9175.

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1901. Serra do Cipó...

Creator: Mary Agnes Chase..Local number: SIA2012-3345a..Summary: SIA RU000229, Box 20, Folder 1; Photographs documenting Mary Agnes Chase's field work in Brazil, 1924-1925...Repository: Smithsonian Institution ... More

Gustav Arthur (1902-2000) and Josephine Cooper

Gustav Arthur (1902-2000) and Josephine Cooper

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

Charlotte Gower Chapman, scientist

Charlotte Gower Chapman, scientist

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

SIA2008-5182, Tanzania, scientist

SIA2008-5182, Tanzania, scientist

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."

Pierre Curie (1859-1906) and Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934), c. 1903

Pierre Curie (1859-1906) and Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934), c. 19...

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Curie, Marie 1867-1934. Curie, Pierre 1859-1906..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1903..Topic: Nobel Prizes. Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [... More

Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore (1910-1997), and John Warren Aldrich (1906-1995)

Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan We...

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

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family campsite in the Canadian Rockies

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family campsite in the Canadian ...

Description: Collecting trips for Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), paleontologist and fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, were often a family affair. This 1910 photograph shows their campsite... More

Viola Shelly Shantz (1895-1977)

Viola Shelly Shantz (1895-1977)

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

Frank Thone (1891-1949) interviewing Science Talent Search finalists, 1945

Frank Thone (1891-1949) interviewing Science Talent Search finalists, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wyoming native June Etta Downey

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

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."

Margaret D. Foster (1895-1970), scientist

Margaret D. Foster (1895-1970), scientist

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

Hazel Gay, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor, scientist

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor, scientist

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

Carolina Amor de Fournier, scientist

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

Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984)

Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1...

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

Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks (b. 1890)

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)

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)

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

Miss McGrath - Public domain  drawing

Miss McGrath - Public domain drawing

Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Microfilm industry..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5685]..Summary: Miss McGrath" (This young woman is shown with what may be an early version of a microform rea... More

Titiana Krassnosselslie Maximova

Titiana Krassnosselslie Maximova

Subject: Maximova, Titiana Krassnosselslie..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1931..Topic: Plant physiology. Women scientists. Botany..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1736]..Summary: Russian plant... More

left to right: Anna Hall, C.P. Li, Mrs. Auborn Hall, Morris Schaeffer (b. 1907), Mrs. Johnnie Johnson, and Ann Beasley

left to right: Anna Hall, C.P. Li, Mrs. Auborn Hall, Morris Schaeffer ...

Creator: Communicable Disease Center (U.S.)..Subject: Hall, Anna. Li, C. P. Hall, Auborn Mrs. Schaeffer, Morris 1907-. Johnson, Johnnie Mrs. Beasley, Ann. United States Public Health Service. Communicable Disea... More

Anna Baker Yates Rapport (b. 1891)

Anna Baker Yates Rapport (b. 1891)

Subject: Rapport, Anna Baker Yates 1891-. Mount Holyoke College. Columbia University. Bryn Mawr College. St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Home (Utica, N.Y.). Duke University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topi... More

left to right: Shirley Rich Maiman, Theodore Harold Maiman (1927-2007), and Sheri Maiman

left to right: Shirley Rich Maiman, Theodore Harold Maiman (1927-2007)...

Subject Maiman, Shirley Rich. Maiman, Theodore H. Maiman, Sheri..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1966. Aprl-66..Topic: Physics. Lasers. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5800]..S... More

Pearl McIver (1893-1976), scientist

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

Maud Amanda Merrill (1888-1985)

Maud Amanda Merrill (1888-1985)

Subject: Merrill, Maud A (Maud Amanda) 1888-1985. Stanford University. Oberlin College..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Psychology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-6015]..Summ... More

Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)

Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)

Subject: Sabin, Florence Rena 1871-1953. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Medicine. Anatomy..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2629]..Summary: Florence... More

Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key - Public domain portrait print

Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key - Public domain portrait print

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

Patricia Brown (b. 1928), scientist

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

Margaret Dora Thomson (b. 1900)

Margaret Dora Thomson (b. 1900)

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

Jane Swanson, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Jane Swanson, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Subject: Swanson, Jane. American Association of Blood Banks. University of Minnesota. Chas. Pfizer & Co..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1968. Nov-68..Topic: Medicine. Women scientists..Local number: S... More

Ruth Winkley, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Ruth Winkley, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Subject: Winkley, Ruth. Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.). University of Michigan..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Zoology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1396... More

Harvard College astronomer Margaret Harwood

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

Bird Stein Gans (1868-1944). 1920s Japan, public domain image.

Bird Stein Gans (1868-1944). 1920s Japan, public domain image.

Description: Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Bird Stein Gans (1868-1944) received her education at Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, and New York University. At the age of twenty, Gans j... More

left to right: Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011)

left to right: Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-20...

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

Nelli Elizabeth Presho, scientist

Nelli Elizabeth Presho, scientist

Subject: Presho, Nelli Elizabeth. Stanford University School of Medicine..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Pharmacology. Medicine. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1679]..Summar... More

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