Mary Blade, standing at blackboard
Close
Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2007-0254]
Creator:
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: October 1946
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2007-0254
In 1946, when this photograph was taken, Mary Blade was the only woman on the Cooper Union engineering faculty (where she initially taught drawing, mathematics and design) and one of few women on any engineering faculty in the United States. Blade was an avid and accomplished mountain climber.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2007-0254
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
October 1946
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2007-0254]