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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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  • Photographs

    Female technician at work in Dearborn laboratory facility

    • 1924

    General view of an unidentified female laboratory technician preparing a water sample for analysis at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street Laboratory. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn Chemical Company was a…

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

    Photograph of the International Chemical Reunion Utrecht

    • 1922

    Group photograph of the International Chemical Reunion Utrecht (ICRU). ICRU was organized by Ernst Cohen (1863-1944) as a way to unite scientists from previously warring nations.

    Front Row: Tendeloo, van der Burg, de…

    • Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Cohen, Ernst, 1869-1944, International relations, Chemists, Women in science
  • Publications

    Women sorting out imperfect grains of smokeless powder at Hercules Powder Company's plant in Kenvil, New Jersey

    • Part of History of the Manufacture of Explosives for the World War, 1917-1918
    • 1920

    Image caption reads "girls sorting out imperfect grains of smokeless powder." Inset photograph caption states "smokeless powder manufacture under difficulties—during the severe winter of 1917-18; great banks of snow are…

    • Author Williams, W. Bradford (William Bradford)
    • Publisher University of Chicago. Press
    • Subject Explosives, Military, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, Industries, Weapons industry, Defense industries, Military supplies, Military weapons, Hercules Powder Company, World War (1914-1918), Women employees
  • 2 items
    Medical instruments and apparatus, Implements, utensils, etc.

    Gold-plated stem pessary (intrauterine device)

    • 1920

    A type of early intrauterine device (IUD) also known as a cervicouterine device or pessary. Curved disk with long coil stem attached to plate of disk. Coil opens into a wishbone shape with two arms. Arms are held…

    • Subject Women--Health and hygiene, Women's health services, Birth control, Intrauterine contraceptives, Contraceptives, Medical instruments and apparatus
  • Photomechanical prints, Publications

    Views in Elastic Filled Capsule Department

    • Part of Hand book of pharmacy and therapeutics
    • Circa 1919

    Four images from a capsule factory of workers and machinery; a capsule press, women sorting finished capsules, coating plates with gelatin, and packing elastic filled capsules.

    Created by Eli Lilly & Company, this…

    • Author Eli Lilly and Company
    • Subject Drug factories, Drugs--Catalogs, Therapeutics, Eli Lilly and Company, Employees, Women employees
  • Photographs

    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
  • Photographs

    Group portrait of Dow Chemical Company office staff

    • 1916-Mar-09

    The individuals depicted in the photograph are identified as follows:

    Standing left to right: William Nash; William Bay; J.P. Holmes; Perley Wayne; A.C. Beckert; Joseph E. LeFerre; Thomas Griswold; Herbert. H. Dow;…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Women employees
  • Publications, Illustrations

    Figure 27. "Flashing" Room at Messrs Edison & Swan's Works

    • Part of The Rare Earth Industry: Including the Manufacture of Incandescent Mantles, Pyrophoric Alloys, and Electrical Glow Lamps
    • 1915

    Figure 27 from the 1915 volume, The Rare Earth Industry depicting the "flashing" room of the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company. The illustration depicts scientists preparing filaments for incandescent electric glow…

    • Author Johnstone, Sydney J. (Sydney James), Russell, Alexander S. (Alexander Smith), b. 1888
    • Publisher D. Appleton and Company
    • Subject Rare earths, Rare earth industry, Scientific illustration, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Women in science, Incandescent lamps--Filaments, Incandescent lamps
  • Publications, Illustrations

    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • Circa 1913

    Illustration depicting a portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762). The portrait accompanies text describing her advocacy for Eastern methods of inoculation. Lady Montagu is credited with the introduction of…

    • Author American Medical Association
    • Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
    • Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762, Women in medicine
  • 11 items
    Publications, Illustrated works

    The Life of Ellen H. Richards

    • 1912

    Ellen H. Swallow Richards (1842-1911) was one of America's first female professional chemists and the first woman to be accepted by a scientific school. She is best known for pioneering the field of sanitary…

    • Author Hunt, Caroline Louisa, 1865-1927
    • Publisher Whitcomb & Barrows
    • Subject Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911, Home economics--Study and teaching, Home economics, Women in science, Scientists, Sanitary engineering, Sanitary engineers
  • 2 items
    Ephemera, Publications

    Article about Marie Curie

    • Circa 1911

    Newspaper article about Marie Curie (1867-1934) and her relationship with Paul Langevin (1872-1946). Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only woman to win twice. In 1903 Curie was awarded the…

    • Subject Langevin, Paul, 1872-1946, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906, Nobel Prize winners, Women in science
  • Photographs

    Chemistry students in laboratory, circa 1910

    • Circa 1910

    Photograph depicting male and female chemistry students in a laboratory at an unidentified school or college. The students are grouped around several laboratory stations and are seen using test tubes and Bunsen burners…

    • Subject Women in science, Science--Study and teaching, Laboratories, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Students, Chemistry--Study and teaching
  • Publications

    Women picking cotton waste for use in explosive manufacturing

    • Part of The Romance of Modern Chemistry
    • 1909

    Entitled "One Stage in the Manufacture of an Explosive," photographic reproduction depicts women in a factory picking cotton waste. The cotton waste will be converted into guncotton, or nitrocellulose, which is used in…

    • Author Philip, James Charles
    • Creator Of Work Nathan, Frederick, Reinhold Thiele & Company
    • Subject Science--Study and teaching, Chemistry, Textbooks, Explosives industry, Guncotton, Nitrocellulose, Women employees
  • 96 items
    Manuscripts

    Chemistry notes taken by Rose Agnes Brabenec

    • 1907

    Notebook used by Rose Agnes Brabenec (1889-1963) during a high school-level chemistry class in Chesterland, Ohio. The notebook begins with notes pertaining to carbon (chapter 11, page 176) and includes a variety of…

    • Creator Of Work Brabenec, Rose Agnes
    • Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Brabenec, Rose Agnes, High school students, Laboratory notebooks, Science--Study and teaching, Women in science
  • 2 items
    Photographs

    IX. Hauptversammlung der deutschen elektrochemischen Gesellschaft

    • IX. General meeting of the German Electrochemical Society
    • 1902-May

    Photograph of the 1902 general meeting of the German Electrochemical Society held in Würzburg, Germany. In 1902 the name of the society changed to Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (German Bunsen…

    • Creator Of Work Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
    • Subject Chemistry--Societies, etc., Chemists, Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, Women in science
  • Photographs

    Group portrait of chemistry students, circa 1900

    • Circa 1900

    Photograph depicting a group of male and female chemistry students at an unknown school or college. The students are posed holding assorted laboratory equipment and glassware. Some of the female students are also…

    • Subject Women in science, Science--Study and teaching, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Students, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Glassware
  • 4 items
    Photographs

    Physikalische-Chemischen Institut in Leipzig, c. 1899

    • Circa 1899

    Two copies of a group photograph depicting students and faculty of the Physical Chemistry Institute at the University of Leipzig.

    In the front row, 4th from the left is Yukichi Osaka (1866-1950). Osaka was a Japanese…

    • Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Ōsaka, Yūkichi, 1866-1950, Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Chemists, Universität Leipzig (1409-1953), Universities and colleges, Women in science
  • 140 items
    Manuscripts

    Laboratory notes taken by Clara Esther Hartley

    • 1895 – 1896

    Laboratory notebook used by Clara Esther Hartley during a high school-level chemistry class in Troy, Ohio. The notebook details approximately 115 experiments performed by Hartley, ranging from fundamental investigations…

    • Creator Of Work Hartley, Clara Esther
    • Subject Chemistry, Women in science, Science--Study and teaching, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Laboratory notebooks, Water quality, High school students, Hartley, Clara Esther, Troy High School
  • Photographs, Stereographs

    A reservoir after evaporation – turning up the salt – salt fields, Solinen, Russia

    • After 1895

    View of a reservoir among the extensive salt fields in Solinen, Russia, located along the Black Sea, following evaporation. Women are seen breaking up the crust of salt formed by evaporation, while masses of salt…

    • Publisher Underwood & Underwood
    • Subject Employees, Manufacturing industries, Salt industry and trade, Salt mines and mining, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Students in anatomy class at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

    • 1895

    Cyanotype depicting a group of female students participating in an anatomy class at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. The group is gathered around a table working on a human cadaver. The students' names are…

    • Subject Women medical students, Women in medicine, Medical students, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Medicine--Study and teaching, Anatomy--Study and teaching, Human anatomy--Study and teaching, Fee, Margaret, Israel, Clara T., Kopp, Kate W., Reiser, Magdalena B., Sharp, Jennie S.
  • Photographs

    Georg Bredig and fellow chemists in Amsterdam

    • 1894

    Group photograph showing chemists in Amsterdam. The pictured individuals are likely the students and colleagues of Jacobus van’t Hoff (1852-1911). Handwritten annotations identify the individuals from left to right as…

    • Subject Rothmund, Viktor, 1870-1927, Hoff, J. H. van 't (Jacobus Henricus), 1852-1911, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Chemists, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Women chemists, Women in science
  • Prints, Etchings

    The Agnew Clinic

    • Circa 1889

    This photogravure by Gebbie & Husson Co. Ltd. reproduces Thomas Eakins' painting known as The Agnew Clinic (or The Clinic of Dr. Agnew). Eakins was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania Medical Class of 1889 to…

    • After Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916
    • Creator Of Work Gebbie & Husson Co. Ltd.
    • Subject Women--Health and hygiene, Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916, Women's health services, White, J. William (James William), 1850-1916, Surgery--Study and teaching, Nurses, Lumpectomy, Medical students, Gebbie & Husson Co. Ltd., Agnew, D. Hayes (David Hayes), 1818-1892, Medicine--Study and teaching, University of Pennsylvania. Hospital, Women in medicine
  • 400 items
    Publications

    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…

    • Author Meyer, Lucy Rider, 1849-1922
    • Publisher Lothrop Publishing Company
    • Subject Women in science, Physical sciences, Chemistry, Children's literature, Science, Fairies, Chemistry--Study and teaching
  • 116 items
    Manuscripts

    Chemistry notebook of Susie Collins, 1886

    • 1886

    Notebook containing notes created by Susie Collins during a high school chemistry class at Chelsea High School in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The notebook covers the period from February 16th through June 3rd, 1886 and…

    • Creator Of Work Collins, Susie
    • Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, High school students, Laboratory notebooks, Science--Study and teaching, Women in science, Collins, Susie, Chelsea High School (Chelsea, Mass.)
  • 53 items
    Publications

    Micro-Chemistry of Poisons

    • 1885

    Frontismatter and plates have been digitized from this volume on poisonous substances. Chromolithographed frontispiece plate illustrates blood spectra. Digitized plates depict various poisonous substances under…

    • Author Wormley, Theodore G. (Theodore George), 1826-1897
    • Publisher J.B. Lippincott & Co.
    • Artist Wormley, Anne Eliza Gill
    • Subject Poisons, Blood--Analysis, Poisons--Analysis, Poisons--Physiological effect, Women in science
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