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Employee operating apparatus for testing electric detonators
- 1962
General view of an unidentified female employee operating an apparatus used to test special electric detonators manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an…
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Employee operating automatic precision-assembly station at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of an unidentified female employee operating an automatic precision-assembly station used during the manufacture of detonators and initiators at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. The…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery, Women employees
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Employee inspecting Vibrocaps at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of an unidentified female employee inspecting Vibrocaps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees
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Employees testing electric detonators at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of unidentified female employees testing electric detonators manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees
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Assembly line production at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1962
General view of employees at work assembling Vibrocaps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Assembly-line methods, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Hercules Incorporated
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Elizabeth Bailey working with spooled Vibrocaps at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of employee Elizabeth Bailey applying shunts to spooled Vibrocaps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Bailey, Elizabeth
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Anna Woods testing electric detonators at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1960
General view of employee Anna Woods testing special electric detonators manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Farrell & Gage Films Inc.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Explosives--Testing, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Woods, Anna
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Employee operating sorting machine at Hercules Kenvil plant
- 1919
General view of an unidentified female employee operating a machine used to sort time cards at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey. Per an article in the August 1919 edition of the Hercules Mixer,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Industrial efficiency, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Women employees, Machinery
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3 items
Arnold Beckman visits to international subsidiaries
- Undated
- 1959-Aug-07
- 1962
The photographs document Arnold Beckman's visits to international subsidiaries. Identified individuals include Suzko Tomono in Japan and Mary Brunton, Jean Fortune, Jessie Rodden, Myra Milne, and Dave Dryburgh in…
- Photographer John Leng & Company, Ltd.
- Subject Employees, Beckman, Arnold O., Beckman Instruments, Inc., Women employees
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400 items
Fairy Land of Chemistry: Explorations in the World of Atoms
- Real Fairy Folks
- 1887
Lucy Jane Rider Meyer (1849-1922) was an American social worker and educator who worked to provide health and social services for the poor, children, and elderly. A graduate of Oberlin College (class of 1872), Lucy…
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Bureau of Chemistry Pharmacognosy Laboratory
- 1914 – before 1928
General view of a female employee analyzing unidentified substances in the Bureau of Chemistry's Pharmacognosy Laboratory. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Pharmacognosy Laboratory supervised the…
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Bureau of Chemistry Pharmacognosy Laboratory
- 1914 – before 1928
General view of employees at work in the Bureau of Chemistry's Pharmacognosy Laboratory. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Pharmacognosy Laboratory supervised the manufacture and distribution of crude…
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2 items
Beckman Facilities, Porterville, California
- Undated
- 1986
Beckman's Porterville plant opened in 1964. Between 1974 and 1983, wastes from manufacturing printed circuit boards and electronic components were disposed of onsite. The resulting contamination lead to the…
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9 items
Beckman Instruments Systems Division Final Assembly Department
- 1961
Assorted photographs, including duplicates and contact sheet, depicting male and female employees at work in the Beckman Instruments Systems Division Final Assembly Department. The photographs were published in the…
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U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel
- 1940s
Group photograph of U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel at an unidentified facility. The individuals in the photograph are identified as follows:
Standing (left to right): Mr. Whittaker; Louise Gardner; J. R.…
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Less bounce to the ounce!
- Advertisement for Sportshape sports bra
- 1986
Black and white print advertisement for the Sportshape bra published in Cosmopolitan magazine. The advertisement depicts a woman arching her back to demonstrate the "superior support" of Sportshape's patented "baseball…
- Creator Of Work JBI Jogbra, Inc.
- Subject Jogbra, Inc., Brassieres, Athletics--Equipment and supplies, Exercise, Women athletes, Women--Health and hygiene, Women inventors
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Portrait of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)
- Circa 1977
Portrait of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011), an American medical physicist and co-recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique.
Rosalind…
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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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Joseph X. Labovsky and staff at nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia
- 1954-Dec-10
Group photograph of staff responsible for the development and manufacture of the "Type 9" textile at the DuPont plant in Martinsville, Virginia. Team supervisor Joseph X. Labovsky is seated at the center of the…
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Caroline Cooper and staff at nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia
- 1950s
Group photograph of staff from DuPont's nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia. Caroline Cooper, the first forewoman promoted to shift supervisor, is visible in the front row, fourth from right. The rest of the…
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Group photograph of staff at nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia
- 1950s
Group photograph of staff from DuPont's nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia. Supervisor C.P. White is visible in the front row, far left side. The rest of the individuals depicted in the photograph are unidentified.
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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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4 items
Letter from Philip Handler to Harrison Shull, 1974
- 1974-May-24
Describes recent accomplishments of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council. Includes a passage on the significant increase of membership among "women and blacks" on NRC committees, but notes,…
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21 items
Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Illustrated with 20 hand-colored plates, Conversations on Botany is composed as a series of conversations between a mother and son about the principles of the Linnaean system of classification and elements of useful…
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2 items
Jogbra
- 1977 – 1979
Invented by Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith in 1977, the Jogbra was the first sports bra. Lindahl and Smith's initial prototype was in the style of two jockstraps sewn together to create a crude brassiere with two pouches…
- Manufacturer Jogbra, Inc.
- Subject Jogbra, Inc., Athletics--Equipment and supplies, Brassieres, Women athletes, Exercise, Women inventors, Women--Health and hygiene