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This photo is part of an ongoing digitization and research project at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Please help us research this photo. View a related blog post here - blog.photography.si.edu/2009/03/30/who-are-you/

This may be a longshot, but I found references via Google to a British scientist "E.S. Goodwin" associated with the Woodstock Agricultural Research Centre, Shell Research Ltd., Sittingbourne, publishing and presenting in the early 1960s about insecticide and pesticide residue detected by gas liquid chromatography. chromatographyonline.findanalytichem.com/lcgc/data/articl... www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayArticleForFre... Can anyone else determine that E.S. Goodwin's full name and gender? :o) I'm guessing this photo is 1920s or early 1930s?

i am drawn to this photo,not knowing why

There is a "Liz Sabin" in the UK who has made a couple of technical biology science posts on a few archived listservs for scientists; there's a return email address for her, if anyone wants to take the search up a notch and see if she is, or is related to, the woman in the picture.

Right there with you, gostrong50. I keep checking back to see if she's been positively identified. (I'm also charmed by the sideseam of her dress--looks like it's coming apart, or it's been hastily mended?)

Notice the flourescent lighting is off and everyone is using incandescent desk lamps?

The award on the wall to the left of Mr. Raynes' head looks like a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Not possible since they were not awarded until 1988.

The cubicle in the background says, "R. J. Scanlon." There was a company named, "Robert J. Scanlon and Associates" which is listed in Chula Vista phone books from this decade.