Long stem, round bottom flask with custom flange. Needle-size hole on opposite side of flange allows for release of pressure.

Lecture notes taken by Amanda C. Shanklin for a college-level chemistry course at Oxford Female College in Oxford, Ohio. The lectures were given by Orange Nash Stoddard (1812-1892), professor of natural science at…

Work by Charles R. Lohman and Joseph F. Trow, husband and brother respectively of American self-proclaimed female physician, Ann Trow Lohman (1811-1878), who sold contraceptives and provided abortions in New York City…

Mrs. A. T. Kent writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) on behalf of a young woman seeking an employment opportunity at the United States Mint. Booth notes his reply on the verso, "waited and watched [for an]…

Lydia E. Pinkham brand menstrual pain relief tablets, containing extract of Piscidia Erythrina (Jamaica Dogwood), Asclepias Tuberosa (Pleurisy Root), Glycyrrhiza (Licorice), and Ferrous Sulfate.

Lydia E. Pinkham, née…

Characterized by a religious Christian tone, the publication provides an overview of plants geared towards a general audience. Includes a microbiological discussion of plant cells and some discussion of plant taxonomy…

Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929) was a writer and science educator who championed Darwinian evolution as opposed to the contemporary emphasis on competition and physical survival. This work, one of Buckley's…

Color plate illustrates an early method of bleaching cotton and linen goods on lawns. Two women stand amongst a vast landscape holding watering cans over strips of white cloth. Decorative frame is bordered by foliage…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929) was a writer and science educator who championed Darwinian evolution as opposed to the contemporary emphasis on competition and physical survival. This fifth edition of Buckley's…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Container of "Chi-Ches-ters" menstrual pain relief tablets, manufactured by Chichester Chemical Co.

Chichester Chemical Co. also manufactured "Pennyroyal Pills," which were marketed with language that subtly indicated…

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…

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…

Lydia E. Pinkham brand "Vegetable Compound", containing extract of Piscidia Erythrina (Jamaica Dogwood), Asclepias Tuberosa (Pleurisy Root), Cimicifuga Racemosa (Black Cohosh), Vitamin B1, Dandelion, and other…

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…

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…