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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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  • 55 items
    Photographs

    Welsbach Gas Light Company photograph album

    • 1920s

    Album containing 52 black and white photographs documenting various aspects of the production process at the Welsbach Gas Light Company site located along the Delaware River in Gloucester City, New Jersey. From 1888 to…

    • Creator Of Work Welsbach Gas Light Company
    • Subject Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Welsbach Gas Light Company, Employees, Women employees, Lighting, Machinery, Incandescent gas-lighting, Incandescent gas-lighting--Fixtures, Industries, Rare earths, Rare earth industry
  • Photographs

    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…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Pharmacognosy, Drugs, Women employees, Laboratories
  • Photographs

    Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory personnel

    • Circa 1928

    Group photograph of unidentified personnel from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C.

    The Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory (F.N.R.L.) was established at…

    • Subject Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Portraits, Group, Women employees, United States. Department of Agriculture
  • Photographs

    Employees at work in Dearborn Chemical Company offices

    • 1927 – 1928

    General view of male and female employees at work at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility and manufacturing plant. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn Chemical Company was a corporate ancestor of…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Office of Laboratory Director at Dearborn Chemical Company

    • 1927 – 1928

    General view of the office of Laboratory Director Dudley Kimball French (center) at the Dearborn Chemical Company 35th Street laboratory facilities located in Chicago, Illinois. The female employees visible in the…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    E.J. Fox and K.S. Love at work in Nitrogen Analytical Laboratory

    • 1928 – circa

    General view of E.J. Fox and K.S. Love at work in the Nitrogen Analytical Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory facilities located in Washington, D.C. Assorted glassware…

    • Subject Women in science, Nitrogen fertilizer industry, Nitrogen--Fixation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, United States. Department of Agriculture, Glassware, Employees, Laboratories, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Women employees, Fox, E.J., Love, K.S.
  • Photographs

    Library at Dearborn Chemical Company

    • 1927 – 1928

    General view of employees at work in the library at the Dearborn Chemical Company 35th Street laboratory facilities located in Chicago, Illinois. The male employees are identified as C.C. Dennis (left) and A.H. Reynolds…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Employees at work in Dearborn Chemical Company offices

    • 1927 – 1928

    General view of employees at work in an office at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility and manufacturing plant. The employees seated at the desks are identified as John W. Brashears (left) and…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Employees at work in Dearborn Chemical Company offices

    • 1927 – 1928

    General view of male and female employees at work in an office space at the Dearborn Chemical Company 35th Street laboratory facilities located in Chicago, Illinois. While the two female employees closest to the camera…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Portrait of Dr. Sylvia Stoesser (1901-1991)

    • 1928

    Portrait of Dr. Sylvia Stoesser (1901-1991), the first female Ph.D. chemist employed at the Dow Chemical Company.

    Sylvia Stoesser (nee Goergen) was born on July 18, 1901 in Buffalo, New York and earned her B.S. in…

    • Subject Women in science, Dow Chemical Company, University of Iowa, Stoesser, Sylvia, 1901-1991, Women chemists, Women employees, Chemists
  • Photographs

    Stenographic office at Dearborn Chemical Company

    • 1927 – 1928

    General view of unidentified female employees at work in the stenographic office space at the Dearborn Chemical Company 35th Street laboratory facilities located in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    E.P. Fager and Viola Suess at Dearborn Chemical Company facility in Chicago, Illinois

    • 1927 – 1928

    General view of employees E.P. Fager and Viola Suess at work in an office at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility located in Chicago, Illinois. An unidentified chemist, visible through the…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Laboratories, Water purification chemicals industry, Corporations, Women employees, Dearborn Chemical Company, Seuss, Viola, Fager, E.P.
  • Photographs

    Eva Vaughn and unidentified employee at work in Dearborn Chemical Company offices

    • 1927 – 1928

    General view of Eva Vaughn (left) and an unidentified employee at work in an office space at the Dearborn Chemical Company 35th Street laboratory facilities located in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees, Vaughn, Eva
  • Photographs

    Olive Bissell at Dearborn Chemical Company offices

    • 1927 – 1928

    Close-up view of employee Olive Bissell seated at her desk in the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility and manufacturing plant. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn Chemical Company was a corporate…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Office space at Dearborn Chemical Company

    • 1927 – 1928

    General view of an office space at the Dearborn Chemical Company 35th Street laboratory facilities located in Chicago, Illinois. A partial view of one of the laboratory spaces is visible through the doorway. The…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Laboratory office at Dearborn Chemical Company

    • 1927 – 1928

    General view of the laboratory office space at the Dearborn Chemical Company 35th Street laboratory facilities located in Chicago, Illinois. The employees seated at the desks are identified as A.H. Reynolds (left) and…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    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…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Pharmacognosy, Women employees, Laboratories, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
  • 2 items
    Ephemera, Publications

    Professor Fürstin Andronikov: die seltsamen Lebensschickfale des ersten weiblichen Deutschen Professors

    • Professor Princess Professor Andronikov: the strange life stories of the first female German professor
    • Circa 1928

    An article written about Margarete von Wrangell (1877-1932). Wrangell was an agricultural chemist and known as Germany's first female full professor in German. While she was alive Wrangell was a very successful…

    • Subject Wrangell, Margarete von, 1877-1932, College teachers, Chemists, Scientists, Women in science
  • 247 items
    Publications

    Applied Chemistry for Nurses

    • 1926

    Published in 1926, this textbook of chemistry was intended to instill "the elementary foundation principles of chemistry which will be of service to the nurse in her work." The work contains chapters that discuss…

    • Author Goostray, Stella, 1886-1969
    • Publisher Macmillan & Co.
    • Contributor Karr, Walter G. (Walter Gerald), 1892-1946
    • Printer The Cornwall Press
    • Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Nursing--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching, Women in medicine, Women nurses, Nursing, Nursing students, Goostray, Stella, 1886-1969
  • Photographs

    Mrs. M.K. Murray using nitrometer at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory

    • 1926-Apr

    General view of Mrs. M.K. Murray demonstrating use of a nitrometer, an apparatus used to determine the amount of nitrogen or nitrogen compounds in a substance or mixture, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed…

    • Subject Women in science, Employees, Nitrogen--Fixation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, United States. Department of Agriculture, Glassware, Nitrogen fertilizer industry, Laboratories, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Women employees, Murray, M.K., Mrs.
  • Photographs

    Employees at work in Dearborn Chemical Company offices

    • 1925-Jan – 1925-Mar

    General view of male and female employees at work in an office space at the Dearborn Chemical Company 35th Street laboratory facilities located in Chicago, Illinois. While the majority of the employees are unidentified,…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Employees at work in Dearborn Chemical Company offices

    • 1925-Mar

    General view of male and female employees at work at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility and manufacturing plant. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn Chemical Company was a corporate ancestor of…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Female employees at work in Dearborn Chemical Company offices

    • 1925-Mar

    General view of female employees at work at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility and manufacturing plant. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn Chemical Company was a corporate ancestor of…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Female employees at work in Dearborn Chemical Company offices

    • 1925-Mar

    General view of female employees at work at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility and manufacturing plant. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn Chemical Company was a corporate ancestor of…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Corporations, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Genevieve Work in Receiving Room at Dearborn laboratory facility

    • Circa 1924

    General view of employee Genevieve Work in the Receiving Room at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street Laboratory facility and manufacturing plant. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the Receiving Room was…

    • Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
    • Subject Women in science, Chemical industry, Dearborn Chemical Company, Water purification chemicals industry, Corporations, Women employees, Glassware, Laboratories, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Work, Genevieve
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