Image: Edward Charles Pickering's Harem 13 May 1913

Description: Photograph of the Harvard Computers (unflatteringly known as "Pickering's Harem"), a group of women who worked under Edward Charles Pickering at the Harvard College Observatory. The photograph was taken on 13 May 1913 in front of Building C, which was then the newest building at the Observatory. The image was discovered in an album which had once belonged to Annie Jump Cannon. Image courtesy of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Back row (L to R): Margaret Harwood (far left), Mollie O'Reilly, Edward C. Pickering, Edith Gill, Annie Jump Cannon, Evelyn Leland (behind Cannon), Florence Cushman, Marion Whyte (behind Cushman), Grace Brooks. Front row: Arville Walker, unknown (possibly Johanna Mackie), Alta Carpenter, Mabel Gill, Ida Woods.
Title: Edward Charles Pickering's Harem 13 May 1913
Credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Author: Unknown authorUnknown author
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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