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Photograph of a bronze bas-relief image of Ellen Swallow Richards. The caption just below the carving reads: "Ellen Henrietta Richards 1842-191. Vassar College A.B. 1870 A.M. 1873 Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.B. 1873 First Woman Graduate, Intructor in Sanitary Chemistry 1873-1911. Smith College SC.D. 1910. Leader in the field of Public Health and Pioneer in Home Economics. She strove for better living conditions as a first step to higher human efficiency." Original caption: "For use on Monday, December 3, 1928 and thereafter. The bronze bas relief of Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, the first woman graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a distinguished scientist and teacher, who died in 1911. For more than thirty years she was an instructor in sanitary chemistry at Technology. This memorial, the gift of the alumni, and the work of Miss Bashka Paeff, was unveiled at a ceremony at Technology this afternoon."