Moore, restoring pottery and drawing illustrations for his popular "oversized, well-illustrated volumes" published by the Academy of Natural Sciences.

[2] These illustrations were subsequently published in Leonard Woolley and David Randall-MacIver's reports on Karanog, Karanôg: the Romano-Nubian cemetery (1910) and Buhen (1911).

Her three-dimensional and trompe-l'œil water colors and 'roll out' illustrations of ceramic vessels [note 2] were particularly admired as "both scientifically valuable and also exquisite art.

"[9][13][1] In 1931, M. Louise Baker traveled to New Orleans, where she painted Maya material at Tulane University's Middle American Research Institute.

During her return from Iraq, Baker visited museums and private collections in Germany, Spain, France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to add to her illustrations of Maya ceramics.

For the next ten years, Baker taught classes on writing and illustration, carpentry, furniture making, metal working, and ceramics.

She also gave talks on local and Quaker history and her archaeological adventures, acted in amateur theater productions in Chester County, and led tours to European museums.

Baker and E. Constance Allen spent their final years together at The Hickman, a Quaker retirement home in West Chester, Pennsylvania.