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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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).

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

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

Helen Miles Davis (1895-1957) and Francis Ernest Lloyd (1868-1947)

Helen Miles Davis (1895-1957) and Francis Ernest Lloyd (1868-1947)

Subject: Davis, Helen Miles 1895-1957..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5365]..Summary: Helen Miles Davis (1895-1957), chemist and wife of Science Service director Watso... More

Vera Katherine Charles (1877-1954)

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

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 [SIA2009-2627]..Summary: Florence... More

Wiktorja S. Dembowski, scientist

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

Sophia A. Satina (1879-1975) and Albert Francis Blakeslee (1874-1954), shown with samples of mold

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

Frances Densmore (1867-1957), scientist

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

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

Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (1901-1957)

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

Mary Katherine Bryan (b. 1877), scientist

Mary Katherine Bryan (b. 1877), scientist

Description: Plant pathologist Mary Katherine Bryan (b. 1877) was educated at Stanford University (A.B., 1908) and worked in the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1909-1934, and the Univ... More

Marie Agnes Hinrichs - Public domain portrait print

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

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1946

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

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1817. Two of Agnes Chase's favorite subjects.

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1817. Two of Agnes ...

Creator: Mary Agnes Chase..Local number: SIA2012-3330a..Summary: SIA RU000229, Box 20, Folder 1; Photographs documenting Mary Agnes Chase's field work in Brazil, 1924-1925...Repository: Smithsonian Institution ... More

Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (1872-1948)

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

Ruth Winkley, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Ruth Winkley, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Subject: Winkley, Ruth. University of Michigan. Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Zoology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1397... More

Geneticist Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key

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).

Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)

Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)

Subject: Sabin, Florence Rena 1871-1953. Anatomy. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Medicine..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2628]..Summary: Florence... More

Estrella Eleanor Carothers (1883-1957), standing outside holding specimen case

Estrella Eleanor Carothers (1883-1957), standing outside holding speci...

Description: Estrella Eleanor Carothers (1883-1957) taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1913-1933, and then continued her groundbreaking genetics research on the order Orthoptera at the University of ... More

Margaret Alger Hayden, scientist

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.

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

Mary Constance Blair (1877-1955), standing outside building

Mary Constance Blair (1877-1955), standing outside building

Description: Mary Constance Blair (1877-1955) was a professor of botany at Northwestern University, where she had earned an M.A. in 1918 and a Ph.D. in ecology in 1922, the first such degree awarded at the scho... More

Alice Brown (1857-1948), scientist

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

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

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

Bacteriologist Hilda Hempl Heller

Bacteriologist Hilda Hempl Heller

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hek-Hem"; "Bacteriologist Hilda Hempl Heller (b. 1891) worked at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. The photograph was taken by Watson Davis at a scientific meeting in Toro... More

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

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

Bacteriologist Hilda Hempl Heller

Bacteriologist Hilda Hempl Heller

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hek-Hem"; "Bacteriologist Hilda Hempl Heller (b. 1891) worked at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. The photograph was taken by Watson Davis at a scientific meeting in Toro... More

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1931. Serra da Gramma [sic]. Dr. Rolfs, jungly bamboo slope between fazendo and Araponga.

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

Mlle. Marchal, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Mlle. Marchal, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Subject: Marchal, Mlle. College de France. American Chemical Society. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1925. C. 1925..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientist... More

Margaret Morris Hoskins, scientist

Margaret Morris Hoskins, scientist

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Has-Hau"; "After teaching in the department of microscopic anatomy at the University of Arkansas Medical School, 1921-1925, Margaret Morris Hoskins (1886-1955) joined the department of d... More

Russian soil chemist A.N. Goudilina

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

Ninth International Congress of Psychology, held at Yale University

Ninth International Congress of Psychology, held at Yale University

90-105, 11, "Biog., Vernon Kellogg"; "This candid photograph of the famous Ninth International Congress of Psychology, held at Yale University in 1929, was found by Watson Davis in a book once owned by entomolo... More

Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991)

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

Maud Slye (1879-1954), scientist

Maud Slye (1879-1954), scientist

Subject: Slye, Maud 1879-1954. University of Chicago. Brown University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Pathology. Women scientists. Cancer--Research..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3423]..Sum... More

Kirsopp Lake (1872-1946), Silva Tipple New (b. 1898), and Robert Pierce Casey (1897-1959),

Kirsopp Lake (1872-1946), Silva Tipple New (b. 1898), and Robert Pierc...

90-105, 12, "Portraits, La-Lal"; "Kirsopp Lake (1872-1946), Silva Tipple New (b. 1898), and Robert Pierce Casey (1897-1959), co-leaders of a 1938 Brown University-University of Pennsylvania joint expedition to ... More

Mrs. H.C. Hamilton, professor, scientist

Mrs. H.C. Hamilton, professor, scientist

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

SIA2008-4382 coat of arms, scientist

SIA2008-4382 coat of arms, scientist

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

ose Koller, sculptor and head of restoration department, Vienna Museum of Natural History

ose Koller, sculptor and head of restoration department, Vienna Museum...

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Kol-Koz (1)"; "Rose Koller, sculptor and head of restoration department, Vienna Museum of Natural History, ca. mid-1930s. In 1936, the museum’s Anthropological Department commissioned a... More

(clockwise from left): Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884-1974), Florence Hedges (1878-1956), unidentified woman, and Edna H. Fawcett (b. 1879)

(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

Emma Reh (1896-1982) - Public domain  drawing

Emma Reh (1896-1982) - Public domain drawing

Subject: Reh, Emma. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1935. 1935?..Topic: Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2153]..Summary: As she was growing up in Washingt... More

Winifred May de Kok, scientist. South Africa

Winifred May de Kok, scientist. South Africa

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Kod-Kok"; "South African born writer and broadcaster Winifred May de Kok (1893-1969) had attended medical school in England during the 1920s and was in medical practice until 1953, when ... More

Silva Tipple New Lake, professor, scientist

Silva Tipple New Lake, professor, scientist

90-105, 12, "Portraits, La-Lal"; "In 1938, Bryn Mawr College classics professor Silva Tipple New Lake (b. 1898) was co-leader of a Brown University-University of Pennsylvania joint expedition to excavate the si... More

left to right: George Grant McCurdy (1863-1947) and Emily Cleveland Davis (1898-1968)

left to right: George Grant McCurdy (1863-1947) and Emily Cleveland Da...

Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-1977..Subject: McCurdy, George Grant 1863-1947. Davis, Emily Cleveland 1898-1968. Yale University. Science Service. International Symposium on Early Man (1937 : Philadelphia, Pa.)..... More

Austrian research chemist Edith Kroupa

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

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

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.

Mary Smith Griffith, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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."

Nina Kobelt, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Nina Kobelt, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Ko-Koc"; Nina Kobelt (1884-1973) was the secretary of Rockefeller Institute biologists Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) and Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (1894-1961) and compiled the defini... More

Herbert Spencer Jennings, scientist

Herbert Spencer Jennings, scientist

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

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

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

Emily Cleveland Davis (1898-1968)

Emily Cleveland Davis (1898-1968)

Subject: Davis, Emily Cleveland 1898-1968. American University. Science Service. United States Dept. of Agriculture..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1940. 26-Dec-40..Topic: Archaeology..Local number: S... More

Catherine Macfarlane (1877-1969)

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

Frédéric Joliot (1900-1958) and Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1940s

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

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