A. Myra Keen with Students

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Summary

A. Myra Keen, at Stanford University where she taught, is with students E. Reeves and Lee A. Smith. All three are seated at a table examining shell specimens and behind them on the wall are shell specimens. A. Myra (Angeline Myra) Keen (1905-1986), invertebrate paleontologist and malacologist, was an international expert on the systematics of marine mollusks. She influenced her profession as a researcher and fieldworker, teacher and advisor, curator and exhibitor, author and public speaker.

Subject

  • Keen, A. Myra (Angeline Myra) 1905-
  • Stanford University

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of the A. Myra Keen Oral History Interview by Eugene Victor Coan, September 1983, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9527, Box 1, A. Myra Keen Oral History Interview

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1950s

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Women
  • Malacologists
  • Animals
  • Women paleontologists
  • Students
  • Paleontologists
  • Teaching demonstrations
  • Shells
  • Mollusks

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

91-7753

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 6h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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