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Florence Bascom (1862-1945)

Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941)

Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), sitting at desk

Mary Agnes Chase, Botanist

Portrait of Roxie Laybourne

Mary Agnes Chase in Brazil

Challenging Science as Usual: Women's Participation in American Natural History Museum Work, 1870-1950

55c Alice Hamilton, MD single

Alice Hamilton (1869-1970)

Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) undated

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997)

Emma Perry Carr (1880-1972)

Margaret Harwood (1885-1979)

Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991)

Margaret Harwood (1885-1979)

Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969)

Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks (b. 1890)

Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892)

Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978)

Mildred Adams Fenton (1899-1995)

How to Be a Scientist

Regina Flannery Herzfeld (1904-2004)

Pennant, Society of Women Geographers, STS 41-G, Sullivan

Bertha Parker Pallan [Cody] (1907-1978)

Mary Knight Dunlap (1910-1992)

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997)

Roxie Collie S. Laybourne (1910-2003)

Roxie Collie S. Laybourne (1910-2003), identifying bird feathers, c. 1944

Feather Expert Roxie Laybourne

Roxie Laybourne Beside Three Open Drawers of Bird strike Remains

Roxie Laybourne and Carla Dove with Black Vulture

Mary Blade, standing at blackboard

Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011)

left to right: Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011)

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