[2] The Olynthus dig became famous in classical archaeology as the first to focus on houses and the domestic life of ancient Greece instead of on large public buildings like temples.

For her master's thesis, she analyzed both the figurines themselves and the places they were found, demonstrating that they were used in domestic situations rather than only in public spaces like shrines.

She kept a careful typewritten inventory of the terra-cottas, separate from my note-books and the daily journal, and I have made abundant use of this and her own valuable suggestions.

[5] Johns Hopkins University Press subsequently petitioned the Library of Congress to update their record to add Ellingson's name.

[9][8] Ellingson appears to have left academia after getting her doctorate, although Robinson mentions her as teaching at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Canada, in the early 1950s.

[6] In the 1960s, after having raised a family, Ellingson returned to academia to become a respected archaeology professor at the University of Evansville, Indiana; she retired in 1974 without publishing anything in her field under her own name.