Women Scientists Posters, Prints, & Photographs, “S...-”
notable and famous women scientists for social studies and science classrooms.

Florence Sabin
b. 11-9-1871; Central City, CO
d. 10-3-1953

Florence Rena Sabin, a medical scientist, was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. She came out of retirement to pursued a second career as a public health activist in Colorado.

• Florence Sabin in Women of Science composite poster
• Probing the Unknown: The Story of Dr. Florence Sabin

Margaret Sanger, née Higgins
b. 9-14-1879; Corning, NY
b. 9-6-1966; Arizona

Margaret Sanger was a birth control activist who gradually won support for a woman to decide how and when she would have children. She was the founder of the American Birth Control League which eventually became Planned Parenthood.

Margaret Sanger quotes ~
• “No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
• “When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”

• Women Who Dared I Composite poster
• reproductive system posters
• Roe v Wade Supreme Court poster
• The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

Mary Seacole
b. 1805; Jamaica
d. 5-14-1881

Mary Seacole, who was taught basic remedies and herbal medicine by her mother, spent her own money to travel to Crimea to help treat wounded soldiers after being rejected by Florence Nightingale.

• Mary Seacole: The Black Woman Who Invented Modern Nursing
• Black History posters

Anna Howard Shaw
b. 2-14-1847; England
b. 7-2-1919; Moylan, PA (pneumonia)

“Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.”

Anna Howard Shaw was brought up near Big Rapids, Michigan when it was considered frontier, giving her first sermon in Ashton (1870). She attended Albion College and Boston University School of Theology, becoming the first female ordained as a Methodist minister. She also earned a Medical Doctor (MD) degree in 1886 though she never practiced medicine.

She was associated with the suffrage and temperance movements, being president of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association for ten years, and close friends with Susan B. Anthony. She was also the first woman awarded a Distinguished Service Medal, voted for by the United States Congress for her humanitarian work during World War I.

• The Story of a Pioneer

Susan McKinney Steward
née Smith
b. March, 1847; Brooklyn, NY
d. 3-7-1918; Wilberforce, OH

Susan McKinney Steward was the third Aftrican-Amercian woman to earn a medical degree, teaching school in Washington, DC and New York in order to earn her tuition to medical school. She was also an author.

Marie Carmichael Stopes
b. 10-15-1880; Edinburgh, Scotland
d. 10-2-1958; UK (breast cancer)

Author and palaeobotanist Marie Carmichael Stopes, D.Sc., Ph.D., was a pioneer for women's rights particularly in the field of family planning. Stopes also is remembered for her protests at places of worship.