Keywords: smithsonian institution smithsonianinstitution womensday eleanor plunkette brown eleanorplunkettebrown society for the prevention of blindness societyforthepreventionofblindness national health council nationalhealthcouncil eleanor brown merril: merril blind history women leader womenleader woman portrait oval 1930s retrato face female black and white blackandwhite awareness prevention eleanor plunkette brown society of the eleanorplunkettebrownsocietyofthe smithsonian institution archives smithsonianinstitutionarchives women's history month womenshistorymonth women in science womeninscience 2009 medicine 20th century - mid 20thcenturymid private blackandwhite people monochrome black and white Description: During the 1930s, when this photograph was taken, Eleanor Plunkette Brown was National Secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Blindness; by 1944, now married, Eleanor Brown Merrill was the Society's Executive Director and had been elected the first woman president of the National Health Council. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Persistent URL: photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5776 Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities. Accession number: SIA2007-0409 Description: During the 1930s, when this photograph was taken, Eleanor Plunkette Brown was National Secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Blindness; by 1944, now married, Eleanor Brown Merrill was the Society's Executive Director and had been elected the first woman president of the National Health Council. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Persistent URL: photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5776 Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities. Accession number: SIA2007-0409 |