Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz portrait
Portrait of Agassiz, 1852
Gravestone of Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz
Radcliffe College
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Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard College. The college was named for the early
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
…pseudonym, Actaea; née Cary; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her…
Fay House, one of the college's first buildings, and the gymnasium in c. 1904
A radio science class at Radcliffe College in 1922
Byerly Hall, built in 1932
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz House, 2012