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Maria Mitchell Picture Gallery

Pioneer Female Astronomer and Educator

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Maria Mitchell, a professor at Vassar and a pioneer woman astronomer, is here depicted at different times in her life in reproductions of her portrait. Also included: images of her observatory in Massachusetts and of her telescope.

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Maria Mitchell, 1847Maria MitchellMaria Mitchell, Vassar College professor and pioneer female astronomerMaria MitchellMaria Mitchell's Observatory at Lynn, MassachusettsMaria Mitchell's ObservatoryMaria Mitchell's Telescope - Picture from National Museum of American History, Smithsonian InstituteMaria Mitchell's Telescope

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