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      What’s in a Name? Uncovering Early Women Computers

      • Date: December 3, 2019
      • Description: We’re uncovering names of some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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      Help Us ID These Mystery Women and Scientists

      • Date: March 9, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    5. Chemist Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895] sitting in lab. She was Director of the Cellulose Laboratories of the Chemical Foundation, at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York, doing pioneering work on cellulose synthesis and plastids. She was known for the use of photographs and motion pictures in her research.

      Hats Off to Women in Science!

      • Date: January 15, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A nod to the hats of women in science in honor of National Hat Day.

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    7. A woman, Mary Jane Rathbun, sits at her desk looking at scientific specimens.

      Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century

      • Date: October 24, 2019
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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    9. Portrait photograph of Johnston.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Healoha Johnston

      • Date: October 14, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      A Library for the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council

      • Date: September 7, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: From The Feminine Mystique to Ms. magazine: take a look at what members of the Women’s Council were reading in the 1970s and 1980s.

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      Family Vacation

      • Date: March 24, 2009
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the third in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month.

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    15. National and Military History, Monthly Lobby Exhibit, National Museum of History and Technology - Women's Suffrage

      National and Military History, Monthly Lobby Exhibit, National Museum of History and Technology - Women's Suffrage

      • Date: 1973 August 14, 1973
      • Creator: Harrell, Alfred

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      Color History with the Smithsonian Recap!

      • Date: April 5, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, over 30 volunteers showed up at the National Museum of the American Indian to write minority women into digital history during a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month. On the to-do list were artists, educators, activists, Smithsonian employees, the first Chinese-American female dentist, and the African-American woman who

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    19. Six women pose for a photograph. The photo is dated 8-31-30. The names of the women are written in cursive below the photo.The include: Louise A. Rosenbusch, Louise Pearson, Narcissus Smith, Helen A. Olmsted, Nellie Smith, and Margaret W. Moodey.

      Depression-Era Pen Pals: A Correspondence Between Two Hard-Working Women

      • Date: January 7, 2020
      • Description: Ruth B. MacManus and Gertrude Brown bonded over their heavy workloads and shared experiences as working women in the Great Depression. Together, they helped improve a publication that does not bear their names: the Smithsonian Scientific Series.

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      Let’s Play the Name Game: Identifying Women Scientists on the Flickr Commons

      • Date: April 12, 2012
      • Creator: Susannah Wells
      • Description: The Flickr Commons community helps the Archives identify images of Women in Science from our Science Service collections.

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      New Flickr Commons Set: Mary Agnes Chase Field Books

      • Date: March 22, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: A new set of Flickr Commons images from the field books of Mary Agnes Chase—a grass specialist, botanist, and suffragist.

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