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366 items

This digital collection features materials related to notable women scientists, including Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie, Bettye Washington Greene, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Stephanie Kwolek, and Rosalyn Yalow, as well as images of women working in a variety of laboratory and industrial settings. The collection also includes a range of materials related to women's health, including breast pumps, contraceptives, and mammary sizers.

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Publications

Chemical and Engineering News profiling Dr. Betty J. Sullivan (1902-1999)
- 1948-Jul-12
Two-page article from the July 12, 1948 edition of Chemical and Engineering News profiling Dr. Betty J. Sullivan (1902-1999).

Betty J. Sullivan was born on May 31, 1902 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and educated at the…
- Subject Women in science, Flour industry, Chemists, Russell-Miller Milling Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.), Portraits, Wheat--Research, Food industry and trade, Sullivan, Betty, 1902-1999, Women chemists
Photographs, Negatives (Photographs)

Key punch operators at Dow Tabulating Department
- 1947-Dec-16
General view of key punch operators (front to back) Ilene Allen, Janet Dyer, Jesse Haven, Marion McFadden, and Margaret Preznowiak transcribing written data into tabulating cards in the Tabulating Department at the Dow…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject International Business Machines Corporation, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, Women employees, Allen, Ilene, Dyer, Janet, Haven, Jesse, McFadden, Marion, Preznowiak, Margaret
Business correspondence

Letter from Irène Joliot-Curie to Monsieur [Raymond] Delaby
- 1947-Mar-07
Letter from Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) to Raymond Delaby (1891-1958), general-secretary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) concerning the appointment of Norwegian radiochemist Ellen…
- Author Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956
- Contributor International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- Addressee Delaby, Raymond
- Subject Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Nobel Prize winners, Women Nobel Prize winners, Women chemists, Women in science, Gleditsch, Ellen, 1879-1968
Photographs

Employee cutting powder strands at Radford Ordnance Works
- After 1940 – before 1946
General view of an unidentified female employee cutting strands of .50 caliber powder extruded from a press to the proper length at the Radford Ordnance Works in Radford, Virginia. The Radford Ordnance Works was…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Explosives, Military, Employees, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Explosives, Women employees, Machinery
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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
Photographs

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
Photographs

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…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Explosives, Military, Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Military supplies, Corporations, Explosives, Defense industries, Women employees
Photographs

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…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Explosives, Military, Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Military supplies, Corporations, Explosives, Defense industries, Women employees
Photographs

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…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Explosives, Military, Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Military supplies, Corporations, Explosives, Defense industries, Women employees, Kellerman, Clara
Photographs, Negatives (Photographs)

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…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Women in science, Employees, Industries, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Volumetric analysis, Dow Chemical Company, Women employees, Laboratories, Nystrom, Lois, Kirchman, Rosemary, Lyness, Helen
Photographs, Negatives (Photographs)

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
Photographs, Negatives (Photographs)

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.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Women in science, Employees, Industries, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Women employees, Glassware, Laboratories, Tenhunen, Marguerite, Ferris, Dorothy
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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.
- Subject Penicillin, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Drugs, Employees, Women employees
Photographs

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…
- Subject Somogyi, Michael, 1883-1971, Laboratories, Women employees, Women in science, Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, Chemists, Diabetes, Diabetes--Treatment, Medical care, Karl, Irene E. Dr., 1915-2006, Women biochemists
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Manuscripts

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…
- Creator Of Work Mack, Pauline Beery, 1891-1974
- Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Chemists, Home economics, Home economics--Study and teaching, Mack, Pauline Beery, 1891-1974, Pennsylvania State University, Science--Study and teaching, Women chemists, Women in science
157 items
Manuscripts

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…
- Creator Of Work Mack, Pauline Beery, 1891-1974
- Subject Women in science, Women chemists, Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching, Home economics, Home economics--Study and teaching, Mack, Pauline Beery, 1891-1974, Pennsylvania State University, Chemists
Photographs

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.
- Subject Employees, Nylon, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Women employees, Portraits, Group
Photographs

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.
- Subject Employees, Nylon, Textile fibers, Synthetic, Polymers, Nylon--Testing, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Women employees, Grenda, Violet
Postage stamps

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…
Postage stamps

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
Photographs

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…
- Subject Women in science, Science--Study and teaching, Women college students, College students, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Students, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Wilson College (Chambersburg, Pa.)
Ephemera, Publications

Article on Margarete von Wrangell
- Circa 1932
This article discusses the 1928 marriage of Margarete von Wrangell (1877-1932) to her childhood friend, Prince Vladimir Andronikov. Von Wrangell was a Balkan German duchess, agricultural chemist, and the first female…
- Subject Wrangell, Margarete von, 1877-1932, Scientists, Chemists, Andronikov, Vladimir, Women in science, Women chemists
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Photographs, Postcards

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
18 items
Publications

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…
- Author Koechig, Irene
- Publisher Lea & Febiger
- Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Nursing, Nursing students, Nursing--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching, Women in medicine, Women nurses, Koechig, Irene, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Business correspondence

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…
- Author Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
- Contributor International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- Subject Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Nobel Prize winners, Women Nobel Prize winners, Women chemists, Women in science

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