Annual meeting photograph, 1909.

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Annual meeting photograph, 1909.

A rare group portrait on the American Museum of Natural History's front steps, of the Executive Committee of the Association, which consisted of twelve preeminent women researchers, M. Carey Thomas, Sarah E. Doyle, Ellen H. Richards, Dean Irwins, Mary E. Garrett, Helen Collamore, Mary Thaw Thompson, Florence M. Cushing, Lilian Welsh, Lida Shaw King, Elizabeth L. Clarke, and Ada Wing Mead, April 24, 1909. Photographs was taken by Thomas Lunt.

1 photonegative : b&w glass.1 photoprint : b&w.1 photoprint : b&w mounted on file card.

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Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911

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Ellen Swallow was born 3 December 1842 in Dunstable, Massachusetts. She received a B.S. from Vassar College in 1870. She earned another B.S. from M.I.T. in 1873 and, in the same year, an M.A. from Vassar. She studied for a doctorate at M.I.T., but never received it, reportedly because "the heads of the department did not wish a woman to receive the first D.S. in chemistry." In 1875 she married M.I.T. chemistry professor, Robert H. Richards, and devoted the next ten years to advocating for scien...

Napels Table Association for Promoting Laboratory Research by Women.

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The Annual Meeting was normally held at Wellesley College. From the description of Annual meeting photograph, 1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155517929 ...

Garrett, Mary Elizabeth, 1854-1915

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Mary Elizabeth Garrett (1854-1915), a wealthy philanthropist, championed women’s education by founding the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland, helping to finance Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and ensuring that women were admitted into the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was an active suffragist and financially helped that cause until her death in 1915. Mary Elizabeth Garrett was born on March 5, 1854 in Baltimore, Maryland, the daught...

Mead, Ada Wing.

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Doyle, Sarah Elizabeth, 1830-1922

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Cushing, Florence M.

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Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935

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Clarke, Elizabeth Lawrence.

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Plant pathologist Clarke graduated from Smith College (1916), studied at Massachusetts Agricultural College, joined the Woman's Land Army, and in 1920 took a position at the Dimock Farm, Corinth, Vt. She turned to raising seed potatoes, and became chief inspector for the Dimock Potato Corporation. By 1929 she was the first woman field inspector for the Vermont Seed Potato Certification Service. From the description of Papers, 1921-1947 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Irwins, Dean.

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Collamore, Helen.

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Lunt, Thomas

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Wellesley College

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Welsh, Lilian, 1858-1938

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King, Lida Shaw

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Thompson, Mary Thaw.

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