Life After Yerkes
Social and cultural conventions in early-twentieth-century America dictated that an academic career—among other forms of employment—was incompatible with marriage and raising a family. Yet many of the women of Yerkes did go on to have careers as university professors, schoolteachers, real estate agents, managers, and business owners, to name only a few. Many of the Yerkes women stayed involved with astronomy for many years after leaving the observatory, even as they worked in other professions or left the workforce. Throughout their lives, Yerkes was and remained a place about which they had fond memories.
From left (back row): Allie V. Douglas, Elisabeth Struve, Storrs B. Barrett, Otto Struve, Alice Hall Farnsworth, Christian T. Elvey, Edwin Brant Frost (Director), Oliver J. Lee, Mary Ross Calvert, Florence Baldwin Lee, Frank E. Ross, George Van Biesbroeck; (front row) Francis Easton Carr, William H. Garrett, Wallace J. Eckert, Nicholas T. Bobrovnikoff, Paul S. Dwyer, Edward M. Justin.
