Mary Jane Rathbun Working with Specimens
Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Rathbun, Mary Jane 1860-1943
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- United States National Museum
- Natural History Building
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), carcinologist at the National Museum of Natural History, at her desk examining crab specimens. Picture was taken towards the end of her career at the Smithsonian.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7256, Box 8, Folder: 6
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1930s?
- Standard number
- SIA2009-0710 or 97-3497
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 4 1/2w x 3 3/8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Carcinology
- Invertebrate Zoology
- Specimens
- Women--Employees
- Women--History
- Women Scientists
- Employees
- Scientists
- Invertebrates
- Women
- Museum curators
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9848
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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