Philanthropy Women in Oncology

Mary Lasker: Photographs from “Angel in Mink”

By ACT for NIH Foundation
March 24, 2023

This photo archive features images of Mary Lasker from “Angel in Mink” by Shirley Haley. A PDF of the book is available on the Cancer History Project.

Mary Woodard in the early 1920s.

Mary Woodard and her family in 1909.

Mary Woodard, recently graduated from Radcliffe.

Mary Lasker in 1926.

Albert and Mary Lasker at the 1950 ACS annual dinner.

President Harry Truman and Mary Lasker at the 1955 Lasker Foundation Awards dinner.

Mary Lasker attends a Lasker Foundation Awards dinner in 1959 with Eleanor Roosevelt and Rep. John Fogarty.

Mary Lasker and Anna Rosenberg in the 1960s.

Mary Lasker, President John F. Kennedy, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson

A portrait of Mary Lasker

Mary Lasker in front of a painting by Claude Monet.

Lasker and President Johnson in 1966.

Lasker and members of the National Health Education Committee in the Oval Office.

Lasker presents a copy of the National Health Education Committee’s health report to President Johnson in July 1968.

Lasker at the first meeting of the NCAB in March 1972.

Lasker at Harvard University in 1987.

Claude Pepper, Mary Lasker, and Terry Lierman