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More Penicillin...because Nickle guards purity...prevents spoilage
- 1946-Apr-27
Black and white advertisement from the International Nickel Company, Inc. highlighting the use of nickel to produce corrosion-resisting stainless steel for a variety of applications. The advertisement features an…
- Artist Flanagan, John Richard, 1895-1964
- Creator Of Work International Nickel Company
- Subject International Nickel Company, Penicillin, Women employees, Employees, Nickel, Nickel industry, Drugs
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Employee inspecting blasting cap shells at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1945-Mar
General view of an unidentified female employee operating a machine used to inspect blasting cap shells at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement…
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Elizabeth Booth using hydraulic press at Hercules pilot plant
- 1945-Mar
General view of employee Elizabeth Booth operating a hydraulic press in the Viscose Laboratory at a Hercules Powder Company pilot plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Several stacks of viscose, a semi-synthetic fiber, are…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer ACME
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Women employees, Laboratories, Machinery, Booth, Elizabeth
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Employees filling electric blasting caps at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1945-Mar
General view of female employees inserting bridged wires into loaded electric blasting caps at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. The individuals visible in the photograph are identified as…
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Employees inspecting blasting cap shells at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1945-Mar
General view of Clara Kellerman and another unidentified employee inspecting electric blasting cap shells at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement…
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Technicians titrating aluminum in Dow Chemical Company laboratory
- 1944
General view of technicians (left to right) Lois Nystrom, Rosemary Kirchman, and Helen Lyness using vacuum tube titrators to titrate aluminum in a Dow Chemical Company laboratory. In the titration process, a solution of…
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Saran film production at Dow Chemical Company
- 1944
General view of an unidentified female employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. The employee appears to be using a type of press to smooth lengths of saran…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Women employees
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Marguerite Tenhunen and Dorothy Ferris testing experimental alloys in Dow Chemical Company laboratory
- 1944
General view of technicians Marguerite Tenhunen (left) and Dorothy Ferris (right) using assorted apparatus in a Dow Chemical Company laboratory to determine the quantity of zinc present in experimental alloys.
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About Penicillin
- 1944
Black and white print magazine advertisement for E.R. Squibb & Sons featuring an image of a micrograph of penicillin, the exterior of the corporation's penicillin manufacturing building, and the factory interior.
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Dr. Michael Somogyi and Dr. Irene E. Karl at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis
- Circa 1942 – 1943
Group portrait with Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883-1971) and Dr. Irene E. Karl (1915-2006) at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. Dr. Karl, wearing a lab coat and striped blouse, stands next to Dr. Somogyi on his left-hand…
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Study questions for Household and Organic Chemistry course at Pennsylvania State University
- 1942
Study questions for Household and Organic Chemistry (Chemistry 52) course taught by American chemist, home economist, and college administrator Dr. Pauline Beery Mack (1891-1974) at Pennsylvania State University. The…
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Laboratory exercises for Household and Organic Chemistry course at Pennsylvania State University
- 1942
Notebook of laboratory exercises for Household and Organic Chemistry (Chemistry 52) course taught by American chemist, home economist, and college administrator Dr. Pauline Beery Mack (1891-1974) at Pennsylvania State…
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Group photograph of Martinsville technical staff
- 1940
Group photograph of technical staff working at the DuPont nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia. An identification key accompanies the photograph.
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Violet Grenda inspecting nylon yarn at DuPont facility
- 1938
General view of Violet Grenda inspecting nylon yarn at an unidentified DuPont facility during the early stages of nylon production and research.
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Cuban postage stamp commemorating Pierre and Marie Curie's discovery of radium
- 1938
Stamp printed by the Republic of Cuba, depicting Marie and Pierre Curie. The 40th anniversary of the discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie was commemorated in France in 1938 with the release of a semipostal…
- Artist La Nézière, Joseph de
- Engraver Piel, Jules
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Cuba, Women in physics, Women scientists, Chemists, International Union against Cancer, Women chemists, Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Postage stamps, Commemorative postage stamps, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Postage stamp from Monaco commemorating Pierre and Marie Curie
- 1938
The 40th anniversary of the discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie was commemorated in France in 1938 with the release of a semipostal stamp bearing a 50-cent surtax to benefit the International Union Against…
- Engraver Degorce, Georges-Léo
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Monaco, Women in physics, Women scientists, Chemists, International Union against Cancer, Women chemists, Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Postage stamps, Commemorative postage stamps, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Wilson College chemistry club
- Circa 1937
Group photograph depicting members of the chemistry club at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The group consists of nine women gathered around a table while observing one member pouring an unknown substance…
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Article on Margarete von Wrangell
- Circa 1932
Article regarding the marriage of Margarete von Wrangell (1877-1932). Wrangell was an agricultural chemist and Germany's first female full professor. Wrangell's significant scientific contributions became well known…
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Set of Postcards depicting the Welsbach Factory in Gloucester, New Jersey
- 1890 – 1930
This set of postcards depicts the scenes from the Welsbach Incandescent Gas Lighting Company factory at Gloucester, New Jersey. Originally a set of 46 postcards, this collection is missing cards number 20 and 31. The…
- Contributor Welsbach Gas Light Company
- Subject Welsbach Gas Light Company, Employees, Incandescent gas-lighting, Incandescent gas-lighting--Fixtures, Lighting, Rare earth industry, Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Women employees, Rare earths, Machinery in the workplace, Machinery
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Letter from Marie Curie to the President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
- 1930-Oct-31
Letter from Marie Curie (1867-1934) to Einar Biilman, President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) concerning an invitation to serve on IUPAC's Commission on Atomic Weights. Curie expresses…
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Chemistry for Nurses
- 1930
Volume intended to provide nursing students with instruction in chemistry. The volume's content conveys the concepts from inorganic, organic, analytical, biological, and physical chemistry most applicable to a…
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Unidentified woman in laboratory
- 1920s
General view of an unidentified woman, presumably a laboratory assistant, posed near a work bench with assorted scientific apparatus and glassware visible in the background. While the setting of this photograph is also…
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Unidentified woman in laboratory
- 1920s
General view of an unidentified woman, presumably a laboratory assistant, posed near a work bench with assorted scientific apparatus and glassware visible in the background. While the setting of this photograph is also…
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Unidentified woman in laboratory
- 1920s
General view of an unidentified woman, presumably a laboratory assistant, posed near a work bench with assorted scientific apparatus and glassware visible in the background. While the setting of this photograph is also…
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Unidentified woman in laboratory
- 1920s
General view of an unidentified woman, presumably a laboratory assistant, posed near a work bench with assorted scientific apparatus and glassware visible in the background. Notably, the photograph is printed as a…