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Mildred Wells using Brookfield Viscometer at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1961-Nov
General view of employee Mildred Wells using a Brookfield Viscometer to measure the viscosity of a carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) solution at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Also known as…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer United Press International
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Research, Industrial, Viscosimeter, Corporations, Cellulose, Women employees, Viscosity, Hercules Incorporated, Wells, Mildred
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Mildred Wells testing samples at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1961-Nov
Two views of employee Mildred Wells testing samples of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) for residual fibers at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. As visible in the photograph, the samples were placed…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer United Press International
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Women employees, Wells, Mildred
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Two women with assorted Styrofoam objects
- 1962
General view of two unidentified women posed behind a work bench with assorted objects made out of Styrofoam. Both women are wearing Styrofoam fascinators and an audience is visible in the background, indicating the…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Foamed materials, Dow Chemical Company, Foam, Polystyrene, Women employees
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Dr. Bettye Washington Greene (1935-1995)
- After 1964 – before 1991
Photograph of Dr. Bettye Washington Greene (1935-1995), believed to be the first African-American female chemist employed to work in a professional position at the Dow Chemical Company.
Bettye Greene was born on March…
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Postcard with French postal stamps commemorating the centenary of the birth of Marie Curie
- 1967
Cachet shows the Curie laboratory in Paris, and stamps depict Marie Curie with a bowl of radium.
- Artist Autier, Ph., Pheulpin, Jean
- Engraver Pheulpin, Jean
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Women in physics, France, Women scientists, Chemists, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Cachets (Philately), Physicists, Postage stamps, Postcards, Women physical scientists, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Postage stamp from Saint Kitts and Nevis commemorating Marie Curie
- 1975
Stamp issued during International Women's Year (1975), depicting Marie Curie, "discoverer of radium," by the former British colony Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (now called the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.)
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Women scientists, Chemists, Women physical scientists, International Women's Year (1975), Commemorative postage stamps, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Postage stamps, Anguilla, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Woman using Beckman Glucose Analyzer and BUN Analyzer
- 1970s
An unidentified woman in a laboratory works in front of a bench holding a Beckman Glucose Analyzer and a Beckman BUN (Blood Urea Nitrogen) Analyzer.
The Glucose Analyzer was developed by James Sternberg in 1969 and…
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Two women using a Model F Coulter Counter
- 1960s
Based on the Coulter principle, the Coulter Counter quantifies and sizes particles suspended in a fluid, like blood cells, bacteria, and a wide variety of other substances. The instrument works by drawing liquid…
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Woman using a Model F Coulter Counter cell counter
- 1969
Based on the Coulter principle, the Coulter Counter quantifies and sizes particles suspended in a fluid, like blood cells, bacteria, and a wide variety of other substances. The instrument works by drawing liquid…
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Woman assembling a Beckman Immunochemistry Analyzer
- Circa 1977
Beckman Instruments debuted an Immunochemistry Analyzer in 1977 and an Auto ICS (Immunochemistry System) in 1980.
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First Day Cover commemorating Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow
- 1979
Cachet created by Colorano is a silk depiction of Rosalyn S. Yalow with text that describes the work which earned her the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Part of the Women's History Series (No. 83) by the National…
- Creator Of Work Colorano
- Subject Women in science, Postage stamps, Jewish scientists, Women scientists, Postmarks, Yalow, Rosalyn S. (Rosalyn Sussman), 1921-2011, Science on postage stamps, Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955, Nobel Prize winners, Cachets (Philately), Physicists, Women in medicine, Women Nobel Prize winners
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First Day Cover and Polish postage stamps commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marie Curie
- Circa 1967
Cachet and purple stamp depict a statue of Marie Curie, while the red stamp depicts Curie herself.
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Women in physics, Women scientists, Poland, Chemists, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately), Postage stamps, Physicists, Women Nobel Prize winners, Chemists
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First Day Cover commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marie Curie
- 1968-Nov-06
Cachet depicts a tree-lined street. On left side of stamp, a patient is shown receiving radium treatments, while a portrait of Marie Curie is depicted on the right.
- Contributor India Posts and Telegraphs
- Printer India Security Press
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Radium--Therapeutic use, India, Women scientists, Chemists, Commemorative postage stamps, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Cachets (Philately), Physicists, Postage stamps, Women physicists, Women in physics, First day covers (Philately), Women Nobel Prize winners