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Wonderful image of a serious young women early in the century. I love the walrus (or part of him) on the wall in the background. Do you think this was in the SI or at Berkeley? www.worldcat.org/title/experimental-amoebiasis-in-the-rab...

Here's some information I found about her. Margaret Dora Thomson was born in January 1900, presumably in Fresno, California where she was enumerated in the 1900 census with her father Thomas Thomson (b. June 1866 in Scotland) and her mother Janet (Beaton) Thomson (b. June 1868 in Scotland) Her father was a foreman in a vineyard. Source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Township 4, Fresno, California; Roll: 86; Page: 24A; Enumeration District: 11; FHL microfilm: 1240086. In the 1910 and 1920 censuses, the family is found in Gilroy, Santa Clara, California, where her father was a farm manager. Source: Year: 1910; Census Place: Gilroy, Santa Clara, California; Roll: T624_105; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0072; Image: 675; FHL microfilm: 1374118. Year: 1920; Census Place: Gilroy, Santa Clara, California; Roll: T625_146; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 129; Image: 855. In 1921, she was awarded a baccalaureate degree from Mills College, as announced in the Oakland Tribune on May 10, 1921 In 1926, she was included in a list of students awarded a Masters of Art from Cal Berkeley, as announced in the Oakland Tribune on May 12, 1926 Source: Ancestry.com. Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Oakland Tribune. Oakland, CA, USA. Database created from microfilm copies of the newspaper. Around 1927, she married Harold Kirby (b. 1900 Nova Scotia) who was a zoology professor and, at the time of his death in 1952, was the Chairman of Department of Zoology at Berkeley. They had 2 children: daughter Janet and son Roger. Source: Story in the Calisphere (Academic-Senate Berkeley) found online here: texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb0w10035d&chunk.id=div000... A Margaret T Kirby, born 14 Jan 1901 in California, died in Alameda, Cal on 15 Mar 1979. This is most likely her. Source: Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

Brenda Anderson Wow, Brenda... so detailed. Thank you! These are fantastic references. Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

See S. H. Gage, "Agnes Claypole's Method of Fixing Paraffin Sections to the Slide," The Observer 6(1895): 64. books.google.com/books?id=_nIgAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA64-IA12 Agnes earned her PhD in 1896 at University of Chicago, taught zoology at Wellesley (1896-98), then assistant in histology and embryology at Cornell (1898-1900). Eventually she landed in California, where she taught at CalTech (1900-1903), and Mills College (1918-1923). She worked closely with her father, Edward Waller Claypole, a paleontologist; in 1903 she married an anatomy instructor, Robert Orton Moody. Interesting profile about her stepmother (who raised the Claypole twins; their mother died soon after their birth): www3.uakron.edu/schlcomm/womenshistory/claypole_k.htm Maybe someone at Akron has photos of the twins to confirm or refute this woman's identity?

Thanks for this info, Penny! It's a lovely start. You're right on that... additional photos would be a great help. Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

Her Passport Application dated 1/20/1919 includes a photograph, but unfortunately the quality of the scan on ancestry.com. Perhaps someone in DC can look up the original or a microfiche version. Passport Application date 1/20/1919 Passport issue date 26/1919 Here is the Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Collection Number: ARC Identifier 583830 / MLR Number A1 534; NARA Series: M1490; Roll #: 695; ; .

Ann Stoddard Thank you for this lead! Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

I've written a bit about the Claypole sisters (and their father) at Caltech (when it still was the Throop Institute) at biology.caltech.edu/about/history/Prehistory.html As part of my research on this I found a descendant, Kate Moody, who sent a photocopy of a photograph of the Claypole sisters in 1898 - and Agnes in that photo looks very much like a younger version of the person in this one. I'm happy to send the scan to anyone interested, though permission to publish and all would probably have to come from Kate Moody or her brother.

Another photo has "commissioned by Mrs. C.F. Tottenham" which might help - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000594828

... And "[ca. 12 November 1936]" , which was a Thursday.

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“the Tottenham family including Lieutenant-Colonel Charles George Tottenham MP (1835-1918) of Ballycurry House, County Wicklow (NA 1901); and Charles Frederick Tottenham (1865-1940) and Marion Tottenham (née Prigg) (d. 1967; A.H. Poole Collection 1936)”

Suck Diesel This is surely Marion then, née Prigg [unfortunate name].