Ellen Swallow Richards
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Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work
Richards c. 1890s From The Life of Ellen H. Richards by Caroline L. Hunt, 1912
Ellen H. Swallow Richards House Boston MA 02
Daguerreotype of Ellen Henrietta Swallow, c. 1848
Old Westford Academy
Home economics
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Home economics, also called home ec, domestic science, household arts, homemaking or family and consumer sciences, is a subject concerning human development, personal and family finances, consumer iss
Ellen Swallow Richards
…the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the…
A domestic science course being taught in London during World War II
A training class in 1985 at Wittgenstein Reifenstein schools
Domestic science kitchen, YWCA, Minneapolis, Minnesota
A group of students studying home science theory at Newmarket State High School