Description

Photograph of a bronze bas-relief image of Ellen Swallow Richards. The caption just below the carving reads: "Ellen Henrietta Richards 1842-1911. 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."