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

Subject: Payne, Eugene H. Rebstock, Mildred Catherine 1919-2011. Parke, Davis & Company..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientists. Antibiotics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA200... More

Lois Mattox Miller, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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

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

Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011)

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

Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Kin-Kiq"; "In 1954, Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) had just been appointed Chief of the Nursing Service at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Kirby joined th... More

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

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1963. 3/20/1963..Topic: Physics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1507]..Summary: In 1963, Chien-s... More

Jacqueline Cochran (d. 1980), scientist

Description: During her aviation career, from the 1930s through the 1960s, Jacqueline Cochran (d. 1980) set more speed and altitude records than any contemporary pilot, male or female, and was the first woman t... 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

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

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), scientist

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

Frédéric Joliot (1900-1958) and Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 194...

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

Elizabeth Lee Hazen, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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

Patricia A. McBroom - Public domain portrait print

Subject: McBroom, Patricia. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1968..Topic: Journalism, Scientific. Anthropology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5598]..Summary: ... More

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

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

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

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

Miss McGrath - Public domain portrait 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

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

left to right: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997) and Dr. Brode

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

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

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

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

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

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

Olive Swezy (b. 1878), scientist

Subject: Swezy, Olive b. 1878. Scripps Institution for Biological Research. University of California (1868-1952)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Zoology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-1... More

Mary Alice McWhinnie, professor, scientist

90-105, 13, "Portraits, Mac-Mc L-Z (2)"; "Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980) was a professor of biology at DePaul University and a world-renowned authority on krill when she began working on research ships off-sh... More

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

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

Physicists at the Seventh Solvay Physics Conference, Brussels, Belgium...

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956. Bohr, Niels 1885-1962. Ioffe, A. F (Abram Fedorovich) 1880-1960. Curie, Marie 1867-1934. Joliot-Curie, Frédéric. Heisenberg, Werner 1901-1976... More

Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971)

Creator: Livingstone, F. C..Subject: Lonsdale, Kathleen Dame 1903-1971. British Association for the Advancement of Science..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1968..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientists..Loc... More

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

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

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

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

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

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

Kathleen May Crossley, scientist

Description: Kathleen May Crossley was on the physics faculty at University of Toronto from 1920s through 1940s...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print..: p... 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

Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), sitting at desk

Description: First hired by Harvard College Observatory to carry out astronomical calculations, Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) eventually became one of the foremost American astronomers, known especially for her... More

Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979), demonstrating equipment in lab

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

Beatrice Mintz (b. 1921), professor, scientist

Subject: Mintz, Beatrice b. 1921. University of Chicago. Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pa.). University of Pennsylvania. Hunter College. b University of Iowa..Type: Black-and-white photographs..T... More

Wanda G. Bradshaw, scientist, engineer

Description: The caption accompanying this Lockheed Missiles and Space Company public relations photo read: "Wanda G. Bradshaw is in the metallurgy and ceramics department of Lockheed's research laboratories. ... More

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

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

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

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), Dr. Brode, and Science Talent Search Winn...

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

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), scientist

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In celebration of Women’s History Month, iconic...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In celebration of Women’s History Month, iconic women from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s past and present participate in a panel discussion, “50 Years of Progress--Celebrating the Women of ... More

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) with Science Talent Search finalists, 1946

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

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

Lucile Petry Leone, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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

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."

Angela Davis, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Poster showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Angela Davis, facing left. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

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

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Katherine J. Scott Bishop (1889-1976)

Creator: Scott, Julian P..Subject: Bishop, K. Scott (Katharine Scott) 1889-1976. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Anatomy. Vitamin E. Women scientists..Loca... More

Isador Henry Coriat (1875-1943) and his wife Etta Dann Coriat

90-105, 6, "Comroe, Julius H.- Conard, Robert A."; Psychiatrist and neurologist Isador Henry Coriat (1875-1943) and his wife Etta Dann Coriat (d. 1934). Isador Henry Coriat was one of the first American psychoanalysts.

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

Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan, scientist

90-105, 8, Portraits Fri; "Billington; National Organization for Women (NOW) founder and president Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan (1921-2006); NOW co-chair and Washington, D.C., lobbyist Barbara Ireton; and femi... More

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington...

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

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

Anna Chao Pai (b. 1935), scientist

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

Jacqueline Cochran: Internationally Known Woman Aviator

Local call number: RC12184..Title: Jacqueline Cochran: Internationally Known Woman Aviator..Date: ca. 1940..General Note: Cochran was born near Panama City about 1910, but grew up in Pensacola She was orphaned ... More

Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg, scientist

90-105, 9, Portraits Gro-Grv; "Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (1881-1974) and Bird Stein Gans (1868-1944). Gruenberg was an educator and writer, author of Your Child Today and Tomorrow, and director of the Child St... More

Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen (b. 1918) with her children

Subject: Schmidt-Nielsen, Bodil. University of Copenhagen. Duke University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women scientists. Physiology. Zoology. Camels..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2750].... More

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

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

Beatrice Mintz (b. 1921), professor, scientist

U.S. National Bureau of Standards director Edward Uhler Condon, U.S. S...

90-105, 6, "Condon, Edward U. 10"; U.S. National Bureau of Standards director Edward Uhler Condon (1902-1974); U.S. Senator Brien McMahon (1903-1952); U.S. Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980); Harv... More

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

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

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

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

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

Sophia A. Satina (1879-1975) and Albert Francis Blakeslee (1874-1954),...

Description: Cytologist Sophia A. Satina (1879-1975), shown with geneticist Albert Francis Blakeslee, was born in Russia, where she taught at the Women's College of Moscow until 1921. Satina's research collabo... More

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1931. Serra da Gram...

Creator: Mary Agnes Chase..Local number: SIA2009-4229..Summary: SIA RU000229, Box 20, Folder 1; Photographs documenting Mary Agnes Chase's field work in Brazil, 1924-1925...Repository: Smithsonian Institution A... More

Left to right: Unidentified woman and Edward Dorris McAlister (b. 1901...

Subject: McAlister, Edward Dorris b. 1901-. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. University of California, Berkeley. University of Oregon..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1930. C. 1930s..Topic: Bioph... More

Jane Stafford (1899-1991), scientist

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

Clara S. Stoltenberg (1865-1950)

Subject: Stoltenberg, Clara S. 1865-1950. Stanford University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Anatomy. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3856]..Summary: Clara S. Stoltenberg (1... More

left to right: Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) and Glenn Theodore Seaborg (19...

Subject: Ray, Dixy Lee. Seaborg, Glenn Theodore 1912-1999. University of Washington. Pacific Science Center. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1968. 9/17/1968..Topic: Marin... More

Margaret Reed Lewis (1881-1970)

Subject: Lewis, Margaret Reed 1881-1970. Columbia University. Carnegie Institution of Washington..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physiology. Anatomy. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [... More

Elizabeth Sabin Goodwin, scientist

90-105, 9, Portraits Gom-Gop; "Elizabeth Sabin Goodwin (1902-1980), Washington, D.C., artist and illustrator."

Mary Alice McWhinnie, professor, scientist

Women's History Month at NASA. NASA public domain image colelction.

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, far left at table, answers a students question at a Women's History Month event at NASA Headquarters, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 in Washington. Garver is joined on the pan... More

Lt. Claudia Alday, Lt. Andrea Fallas, and Lt. Seth Gay, speak to an at...

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (Mar. 27, 2015) Lt. Claudia Alday, Lt. Andrea Fallas, and Lt. Seth Gay, speak to an attendees of the Society of Women Engineers Southeast Region career fair during Women's History Month on the... More

Dassa Carvey, former president and founder of Women Accepted for Volun...

SUFFOLK, Va. (Mar. 13, 2018) Dassa Carvey, former president and founder of Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), Unit 152, delivers remarks during an observance of a multi-cultural event to ce... More

Second Lady Karen Pence, right, welcomes Air Force

Second Lady Karen Pence, right, welcomes Air Force Col. Michelle Pufall at Pence’s home in Washington, D.C. March 23, 2017. Pence gathered service members from every branch of service for a Women’s History Mont... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russian soil chemist A.N. Goudilina

90-105, 9, Portraits Gov-Goz; "Russian soil chemist A.N. Goudilina was attending the First International Congress of Soil Science conference in Washington, D.C., June 13-22, 1927, when this photograph was taken... More

Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991)

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

Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895), sitting in lab with microsco...

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

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