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Morton Churchill Mott-Smith (1877-1944) and his wife, Elvira G. Mott-Smith

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:40:00 -0800

Subject: Mott-Smith, Morton Churchill 1877-1944
Science Service

Type: Black-and-white photographs

Topic: Physics
Journalism, Scientific

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1130]

Summary: left to right: Morton Churchill Mott-Smith (1877-1944) and his wife, Elvira G. Mott-Smith. Morton Churchill Mott-Smith was a physicist who worked as a Science Service writer during the 1940s.

Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archivess

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Gerharda Wilbrink (1875-1962)

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:40:00 -0800

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Type: Black-and-white photographs

Topic: Plant diseases
Botany
Women scientists

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3800]

Summary: Gerharda Wilbrink (1875-1962) was a Dutch plant pathologist who specialized on sugar cane diseases in Java. Wilbrink published on this topic during 1920s and devised a well-known medium for growing bacteria called "Wilbrink's agar."

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Stella Pecelj Collett (ca. 1922-2010)

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:40:00 -0800

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Subject: Collett, Stella Pecelj c. 1921-2010
Bell & Howell Co
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Type: Black-and-white photographs

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1414]

Summary: Stella Pecelj Collett (ca. 1922-2010) was working at the Bell & Howell Company during World War II when this photograph was taken. She had been featured as a "Pin-Up Girl" in a company publication and just been offered a screen test at MGM. The accompanying press release had noted that the motion picture manufacturer was "now engaged 100% in war production...Stella works in the Purchasing Department at Bell & Howell--one of the army of women on the home front, fighting the battle of production--one of the women behind the men behind the guns

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Miriam Elizabeth Simpson (1894-1991)

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:40:00 -0800

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Subject: Simpson, Miriam E (Miriam Elizabeth) 1894-
University of California (1868-1952)

Type: Black-and-white photographs

Topic: Anatomy
Women scientists

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3384]

Summary: Miriam Elizabeth Simpson (1894-1991) attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning the A.B. in chemistry in 1915 and the M.A. in 1916. Simpson went on to earn the first Ph.D. in anatomy conferred in the University of California (1921), and a Ph.D. in medicine from Johns Hopkins University. She taught anatomy at the University of California from 1923 to 1961.

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Dena Evelyn Shapiro [Joseph]

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:40:00 -0800

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Subject: Shapiro, Dena

Type: Black-and-white photographs

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3244]

Summary: Dena Evelyn Shapiro [Joseph] received a Master's in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1929. This photo describes her as just having traveled "to Palestine, to see how the new cloth of Zionism is fitting into the old garment of the complex Moslem-Christian-Jewish life there."
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Place: Palestine

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Penelope Jo Parsons [Maddy]

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:40:00 -0800

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Subject: Parsons, Penelope Jo

Type: Black-and-white photographs

Date: 1968

Topic: Science fairs
Women scientists

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-0837]

Summary: Penelope Jo Parsons [Maddy] is shown standing in front of her Science Talent Search exhibit ("Algebraic Properties for a General Power Set") in March 1968. A high school student from San Diego, California, Parsons won a $4000 scholarship in the competition.

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Bertha Parker Pallan [Cody] (1907-1978)

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:40:00 -0800

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Subject: Pallan, Bertha
Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Type: Black-and-white photographs

Topic: Throwing-sticks

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-0779]

Summary: Bertha Parker Pallan [Cody] (1907-1978) is considered one of the first female Native American archaeologists. The caption to this photograph said that Bertha Pallan was an "expedition secretary" who was demonstrating "the difference in size of early type [small] and large type atlatl darts from Gypsum Cave." This photograph may be related to an expedition sponsored by the Southwest Museum (Los Angeles). In 1936, Bertha married Iron Eyes Cody (1904-1999). In the 1950s, they hosted a television program explaining Indian history and folklore and served as technical advisers on several films.

Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives

Place: Gypsum Cave (Nev.)

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Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954)

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:40:00 -0800

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Subject: Moody, Agnes Mary Claypole 1870-1954

Type: Black-and-white photographs

Topic: Women scientists

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1024]

Summary: Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954), zoologist and professor of natural science. Agnes Mary Claypole Moody had a twin sister, Edith Jane Claypole (1870-1915), who was also a biologist.

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Miss Bertha Ferguson

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:16:02 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878

Type: Photographic print
Person, candid

Date: 1935

Topic: Women

Standard number: SIA2011-0905 and 32112

Physical description: Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 2.25w x 2.5h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes: The image is included in Tolman's scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes, (Section F)

Summary: Miss Bertha (L.) Ferguson sitting in a chair in Smithsonian office. Ferguson was a clerk-stenographer for the United States National Museum's (USNM) Division of History from 1928-1943. In 1943, Ferguson was transferred to another Government Department.
According to the USNM's Annual Report for 1943, "for 15 years (Miss. Ferguson) faithfully performed not only the routine clerical tasks of the division, but also many duties not usually associated with a purely clerical assignment."

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Mr. De Roose

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:16:02 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878

Type: Photographic print
Person, candid

Date: 1935

Topic: Uniforms
Men

Standard number: SIA2011-0853 and 32241-2

Physical description: Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes: The image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes (Section D)

Summary: A man identified as De Roose is seated at a desk, probably in the Smithsonian, the "Castle". The man, wearing a guard's uniform, is reading a newspaper and has a pipe in his mouth.

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Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bolton

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:16:02 -0800

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Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878

Type: Photographic print
    Group, candid

Date: 1936

Topic: Windows
     Women
     Men

Standard number: SIA2011-0279 and 32520-4

Physical description: Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h ; Type of Image: Group, Candid ; Medium: Photographic print

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes: The image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes (Section B)

Summary: Image of Mr. (left) and Mrs. (right) Theodore Bolton. The pair are sitting on a porch and a window that looks into a house is in between them

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Mr. William Crossingham

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:16:02 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878

Subject: Crossingham, William

Type: Photographic print
Person, candid

Date: 1935

Topic: Windows

Standard number: SIA2011-0484 and 32070

Physical description: Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h ; Type of Image: Person, Candid ; Medium: Photographic print

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes: The image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes (Section C)

Summary: Image of Mr. William Crossingham. Crossingham is wearing bib overalls with suspenders. A window can be seen in the background.
Crossingham served on the Smithsonian's maintenance and operation staff as foreman of the paint shop. He retired on September 30, 1944.

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Professor Albert B. Bibb

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:16:02 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878

Type: Photographic print
Person, candid

Date: 1936

Topic: Men

Standard number: SIA2011-0268 and 32372-3

Physical description: Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 1.75w x 2.25h ; Type of Image: Person, Candid ; Medium: Photographic print

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes: The image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes (Section B)

Summary: Image of Professor Albert B. Bibb architect and professor of architecture for Catholic University. Bibb also served as the architect for the United States Life-Savings Service (later the United States Cost Guard), building numerous life-saving stations for the agency.

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Mrs. Thomas Brockway

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:16:02 -0800

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Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878

Type: Photographic print
Person, candid

Date: 1935

Topic: Books
Women

Standard number: SIA2011-0276 and 32280-6

Physical description: Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h ; Type of Image: Person, Candid ; Medium: Photographic print

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes: The image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes (Section B)

Summary: Image of Mrs. Thomas Brockway (Rosamond Jean Lambert) (1899-1992), art historian, sitting in front of filled bookcases, probably in the Smithsonian "Castle", as she looks at the photographer.
Jean L. Brockway, wrote several pieces about artists and miniatures. Her husband, Thomas Parmelee Brockway was a historian. Tolman, the photographer of this image was a miniature artist, making a connection between him and Mrs. Brockway.

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Cecil R. Mulnix

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:16:02 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878

Type: Photographic print
    Person, candid

Date: 1937

Topic: Books
     Uniforms
     Men

Standard number: SIA2011-1520

Physical description: Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 2.2w x 2.2h ; Type of Image: Person, Candid ; Medium: Photographic print

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes: The image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes (Section L)

Summary:
Image of a man identified as (Cecil R.) Mulnix. Mulnix is standing outside on the Mall, Washington, D.C., in a guard's uniform, holding a book. A stool is near him on ground. In the distance on the left are parked automobiles.
According to the Smithsonian Institution's Annual Report for 1944, Cecil R. Mulnix a guard, retired on March 31, 1944 after 13 years and 7 months service on account of disability.

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Mr. A. H. O. Rolle

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:16:02 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878

Type: Photographic print
Person, candid

Date: 1936

Topic: Exhibit cases
Men

Standard number: SIA2012-1054 and 32477-9

Physical description: Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 2.13w x 2.13h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes: The image is included in Tolman's scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes, (Section R)

Summary: Image of Mr. A. H. O. (August Herman Olson) Rolle, seated in a chair in front of wooden exhibit cases in a museum building, probably the Smithsonian "Castle."
Rolle, an American impressionist landscape painter, was a forestry expert working with the Bureau of the Census from 1900-1941. He attended the Corcoran School of Art from 1905-1915 and was a founding member of the Landscape Club of Washington, D.C.

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