Portrait of Deborah Warner with Armillary Sphere

ID: SIA RU000371 [78-1202-33]

Creator: Hofmeister, Richard K

Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs

Date: 1978

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: December 1978, Image No. 78-1202-33

Summary

Deborah Warner, curator of the history of astronomy at National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now known as National Museum of American History, poses with an armillary sphere.
From Torch article: "Contrary to popular opinion, not all Victorian ladies spent their time sitting primly in the parlor. As education became more widespread, growing numbers of American women in the last century traded lacy frocks for white coats and took to lab and field to conduct important research in astronomy, biology, botany, zoology, anthropology and the other sciences. Their contributions are currently being honored in the Museum of History and Technology exhibit, 'Women in Science in 19th - Century America,' on view until February...'The exhibit dramatizes that women did participate in science in the 19th century,' said MHT's curator of the history of astronomy, Deborah Warner, who put together the exhibit."

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: December 1978, Image No. 78-1202-33

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Black-and-white photographs

SIA RU000371 [78-1202-33]

Gelatin silver prints; 8 x 10;