Andrea Barnet - Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World

Rachel Carson with her mother, Maria, her older sister, Marion, and brother, Robert, ca. 1909.

Yale Beinecke.

Rachel Carsons senior yearbook picture from Pennsylvania College for Women in 1928.

Chatham University Archives.

Mary Scott Skinker, college mentor, friend, and acting head of the biology department at Pennsylvania College for Women.

Chatham University Archives.

Rachel Carson, author of The Sea Around Us, in 1951.

Yale Beinecke.

Rachel Carson writing at dockside while working at Woods Hole Biological Laboratory, ca. 1951. Photograph by Edwin Gray.

Yale Beinecke.

Rachel Carson at work in Maryland.

Yale Beinecke.

Virginia and Marjorie Williams, Rachels nieces, in 1942. Marjorie died at age thirty-one, leaving Rachel to raise her five-year-old son, Roger Christie.

Yale Beinecke.

Rachel Carson, Marianne Moore, and James Jones at the National Book Awards ceremony in January 1952. Carson won for her nonfiction book The Sea Around Us.

Queens Library/Archives/New York Herald Tribute Photo Morgue.

Eric Severaid interviewing Rachel Carson for CBS Reports, which aired on April 3, 1963.

Getty Images.

Rachel Carson testifying in 1963 before the Senate subcommittee on the hazards of pesticide use.

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Jane Jacobs in about 1946, when she took a job writing for the Office of Wartime Information and then for the magazine Amerika, which was distributed in the Soviet Union.

John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

In 1947, the Jacobses bought a vacant, run-down building at 555 Hudson Street in Greenwich Village. They lived on the upper floors while doing most of the renovation themselves.

Jacobs family photograph.

Jacobs read broadly and voraciously, from literary magazines and technical journals, to history and biography, to short stories, plays, novels, and murder mysteries.

Jacobs family photograph.

Jane by the fireplace with Ned and Jim in fall 1950. The house had no furnace so Jane would get up early and light the fire to warm the house.

Jacobs family photograph.

Jane Jacobs in 1960 at the White Horse Tavern, a legendary watering hole for writers, poets, artists, and musicians in Greenwich Village.

Cervin Robinson. 2017.

Jacobs, a lifelong smoker, reading next to the woodpile in the backyard of 555 Hudson Street. At the time, few New Yorkers equated private outdoor space with urban living.

Jacobs family photograph.

Jane Jacobs holds up documentary evidence of collusion between city officials and private developers in the fight to save the West Village in December 1961.

Library of Congress.

August 1962. Jane Jacobs being interviewed by a journalist at a demonstration against LOMEX, the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway.

Fred McDarrah/Getty Images.

April 1967. Jane Jacobs (center) and her husband, Bob, with their daughter Mary (Burgin) at an antiVietnam War demonstration at United Nations Plaza in New York City.

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December 1967. Jane Jacobs (fourth from left)with Susan Sontag and others in jail after their arrest following a Vietnam War protest in front of the Whitehall Induction Center in Manhattan. Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg were also arrested that day.

John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Baby Jane Goodall with her stuffed toy chimpanzee, Jubilee.

the Jane Goodall Institute. Courtesy of the Goodall Family.