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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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;…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Anna Hamburger, a scientist in Heidelberg, sends Georg Bredig (1868-1944) a list of scientific publications, including two references dealing with sodium amalgams.

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…

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…

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…

Work providing a comprehensive look at the German chemical industry at the turn of the twentieth century. Chapters range to discuss topics from phosphorus and mineral acids to glass fabrication and the chemical…

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…

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…