[2] Minor earned her bachelor's degree in biological sciences and worked for Clyde Jones at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

[3] When Minor applied for her first job, at the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, the company insisted she had to be a secretary.

[4] She spent two years researching the mammals of Poplar Island, and presented this work at the American Society of Mammalogists meeting in 1975.

Candace Jean Anderson, an artist and writer from Salt Lake City, Utah, came across the photograph whilst researching a picture book on the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

The conference was attended by almost 40 international scientists and conservationists, and co-organised by Matilene Berryman and Suzanne Montgomery Contos, who were also uncovered in the Twitter conversation.