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Original – Astronomer Margaret Harwood, first director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She also discovered 886 Washingtonia, but:

An astronomer lass from Nantucket
Found an asteroid, but Harvard said "Chuck it!
No astronomer dame
Such credit may claim!"
(But I say that Harvard can suck it.)

Reason
While slightly undersize, the film grain is larger, so no detail is lost. Quite a good photo otherwise. I've tweaked the crop a bit - extended the right and cropped the left - to try and centre the image a bit better.
Articles in which this image appears
Margaret Harwood, Maria Mitchell Observatory (the latter just added)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
Unknown photographer, restored by Adam Cuerden
Slow day at the resto shop? – Sca (talk) 19:28, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Just something about people from Nantucket.... Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 19:45, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Margaret Harwood.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:53, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]