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Read more about Mary Agnes Chase here - blog.photography.si.edu/2009/03/08/formidable/

Famous women with names U, V, X, & Y: Usula B. Marvin, geologist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center forum.wgbh.org/lecture/life-our-home-turf-scanning-solar-... Vita Sackville-West, author, gardener,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West Victoria Regina, queen Vera Brittain, author, pacifist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain Valentina Tereshkova - Russian cosmonaut en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova (lots of Valentinas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina) Xenia Desni, Ukranian, silent film star Yoko Ono, Japanese artist Unity Mitford, Fascist sypathizer and friend of Hitler en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Mitford

More about Mary Agnes Chase: Botanist Mary Agnes Meara Chase was born April 20, 1869, in Illinois. Her father Martin Meara, an Irish railroad worker, was hung as a murderer when Mary Agnes was a toddler. After a elementary education in Chicago, Mary Agnes quit school to work as a newspaper typesetter, a proofreader, even as a meat inspector. She was briefly married, then widowed, at 19. She had always been artistic, and interested in plants; a minister who was also a botanist hired Mary Agnes to draw specimens of mosses he had collected. Some of her illustrations were selected for publication in scientific journals. In 1903, she took a Washington-based job as an illustrator for the US Department of Agriculture. She would eventually become a senior botanist at the Smithsonian, and one of the world's experts on grasses of North America. She went on several collecting expeditions to Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico (her personal collection was donated to the Smithsonian and the National Herbarium). Her strongly feminist politics led her to activism that endangered her government employment, including jail time and forced feedings during a hunger strike for suffrage. Here's a local history account mentioning her father's lynching, for the murder of his son, the older brother of Mary Agnes Meara: www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/monthly/meara2.htm

An inspiring story, of success against the odds.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Systematic Botany (not for "pretty flower images"), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

The houses remind me of the ones described in Zora Neale Hurston's book "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Houses like this were common in Southeast Texas and Lousianna into the 1980's.

This year's FEMA housing....

Can you really say "negro"?

I think you should be able to say "negro," although I haven't actually heard it used in years. There might be some people offended by it (you can always find somebody who is offended by something) but it doesn't have the deadly taboo status of that other "n word."

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.

This image has been used in a indicommons.org Best of the Library of Congress post. We're features Flickr Commons group members' choices from the LOC collections this week as part of our coverage of the first anniversary of The Commons.

Very nice collection I wonder when these were colored?

abej2004, these are original colour slides. Not coloured black and white. This one is an Eastman transparency.

No genetically altered vegetables there! Fresh from the earth.