Keywords: smithsonian institution smithsonianinstitution womensday science service records scienceservicerecords society for science & the public societyforsciencethepublic 1954 national museum of natural history nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory smithsonian women's committee smithsonianwomenscommittee couple scientists working paleontology fossils desk lamp papers specimen cabinets specimencabinets window telephone arthur cooper arthurcooper josephine cooper josephinecooper paleontologist workplace organization clutter black and white blackandwhite office history man smithsonian institution archives smithsonianinstitutionarchives women's history month womenshistorymonth women in science womeninscience 2009 20th century - mid 20thcenturymid government blackandwhite monochrome indoor black and white Description: G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper (1902-2000) and his wife, Josephine Cooper, are shown here at work in his office in the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, in June of 1954. Specimens of fossil brachiopods can be seen on the desk as well as where his wife is working by the window. Josephine, although not on the Smithsonian payroll, was educated in geology and assisted her husband with collecting and identifying specimens. She also did most of the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology Russian translating. Josephine Cooper was also a founding member of the Smithsonian Women's Committee, a fund-raising organization. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Date: 1954 Persistent URL: photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5805 Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession number: SIA2009-0985 Description: G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper (1902-2000) and his wife, Josephine Cooper, are shown here at work in his office in the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, in June of 1954. Specimens of fossil brachiopods can be seen on the desk as well as where his wife is working by the window. Josephine, although not on the Smithsonian payroll, was educated in geology and assisted her husband with collecting and identifying specimens. She also did most of the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology Russian translating. Josephine Cooper was also a founding member of the Smithsonian Women's Committee, a fund-raising organization. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Date: 1954 Persistent URL: photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5805 Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession number: SIA2009-0985 |