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• Smithsonian Institution 3 photos
• Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America 1 photo
• The Library of Congress 1 photo

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Ada L. Comstock (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• trialsanderrors said:

  Ada Comstock (December 11, 1876-December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College. I added the picture to the Wikipedia article, the big version is now at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ada_Comstock_(LOC_ggbain....

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Her papers are at Harvard: oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00104 And at Smith College (where she was also on the faculty): asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/smitharchives/manosca15...

• Kristi (LOC P&P) said:

  trialsanderrors and pennylrichardsca: Thanks for the research on the many accomplishments of Ms. Comstock. We will add to the description for this photograph when we update.

Frances Jean MacInnes (b. 1892)

from Smithsonian Institution

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Her parents, Duncan MacInnes and Frances Sayers, were born in Scotland and England respectively; she was born in Salt Lake City. books.google.com/books?id=rzROAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Frances%... Her brother, Duncan Arthur MacInnes (1885-1965), was also born in Salt Lake City, also attended the University of Illinois, for grad school; he earned a PhD there in 1911, and became a professor of Physical Chemistry at MIT.

Marina Prajmovsky Meyers (1924-1974)

from Smithsonian Institution

• 1 older comment, and then…
• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Reports on the Talent Search win, including another photo of Marina Prajmovsky:
  books.google.com/books?id=nCEDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=RA1-PA46&a...
  This blog entry has more details about her:
  blog.sciencewomen.com/2007/03/wwii-era-westinghouse-scien...