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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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  • Women in science187
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  • 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.)
  • 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
  • 7 items
    Photographs

    Employees exiting Rohm and Haas home office building

    • 1965

    Series of photographs showing unidentified employees exiting the Rohm and Haas Company home office building located at West Washington Square in Philadelphia. These photographs were likely taken around the time the…

    • Creator Of Work Rohm and Haas Company
    • Subject Rohm and Haas Company, Corporations, Employees, Women employees
  • Photograph of Kathryn C. Hach-Darrow
    14 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Kathryn C. Hach-Darrow

    • 2002-Jul-20 (First session)
    • 2003-Oct-02 (Second session)
    • 2004-Feb-08 (Third session)

    Kathryn C. Hach-Darrow begins the interview with anecdotes of Clifford C. Hach as a young, inquisitive child growing up on a farm and the effects of the Great Depression on the Hach family. Despite financial…

    • Interviewee Hach-Darrow, Kathryn C., 1922-2020
    • Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Daemmrich, Arthur
    • Subject Women in science, Hach-Darrow, Kathryn C., 1922-2020, Couple-owned business enterprises, Water--Analysis, Businesswomen, Women-owned business enterprises, Water--Hardness
  • Photograph of Mary L. Good
    8 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Mary L. Good

    • 1998-Jun-02

    Mary Good begins the interview with a discussion of her family history, her childhood, and her early education. Her family moved from Texas to Arkansas in 1942, when her father was offered a principalship in Kirby. Good…

    • Interviewee Good, Mary L., 1931-
    • Interviewer Traynham, James G.
    • Subject Good, Mary L., 1931-, United Oil Products, Inc., Allied-Signal Inc., American Chemical Society, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Women chemists, Women in science, Radiochemistry, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
  • Publications

    Figure 20: Early method of bleaching cotton and linen goods on lawns

    • Part of Chemistry, Developed by Facts and Principles Drawn Chiefly from the Non-Metals
    • 1884

    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…

    • Author Appleton, John Howard, 1844-1930
    • Publisher Providence Lithograph Company
    • Subject Chemistry, Textbooks, Science--Study and teaching, Bleaching, Women household employees, Household employees, Women in science
  • Photographs

    Dr. Michael Somogyi and Dr. Irene E. Karl at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis

    • Circa 1942 – 1943

    Group portrait with Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883-1971) and Dr. Irene E. Karl (1915-2006) at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. Dr. Karl, wearing a lab coat and striped blouse, stands next to Dr. Somogyi on his left-hand…

    • Subject Somogyi, Michael Dr., 1883-1971, Laboratories, Women employees, Women in science, Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, Chemists, Diabetes, Diabetes--Treatment, Medical care, Karl, Irene E. Dr., 1915-2006, Women biochemists
  • 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
  • Postage stamps, Ephemera

    Mexican postage stamp commemorating the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (25th anniversary)

    • 1951

    Mexican postage stamp issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México (the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) on January 1, 1936. Established during the…

    • Creator Of Work Mexico. Dirección General de Talleres de Impresión de Estampillas y Valores
    • Subject Commemorative postage stamps, Mexico, Postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Mexico), Women in science, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Science--Study and teaching
  • Rare books

    Woman with passion flower

    • Part of The Young Botanist
    • 1835

    Frontispiece illustration depicts a woman holding passion flowers with the caption "The passion flower belongs to the class monadelphia and order pentandria. See page 165." The flower she holds is painted yellow…

    • Author Comstock, J. L. (John Lee), 1789-1858
    • Subject Botany, Plants, Natural history, Textbooks, Women in art, Women botanists
  • 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
  • Photographs

    Wiring timing generator at Beckman Instruments Final Assembly Department

    • Part of Beckman Instruments Systems Division Final Assembly Department
    • 1961

    General view of several Beckman Instruments employees wiring a timing generator purchased by Convair Astronautics. The employees visible in the photograph are identified as follows (left to right): Pete Kappauf; Homer…

    • Subject Factories, Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Women employees, Beckman Instruments, inc.
  • Photographs

    Female employees at work in Beckman Instruments Final Assembly Department

    • Part of Beckman Instruments Systems Division Final Assembly Department
    • 1961

    General view of several female Beckman Instruments employees wiring and connecting a cabinet purchased by Autonetics, a division of North American Aviation. The employees visible in the photograph are identified as…

    • Subject Factories, Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Women employees, Beckman Instruments, inc.
  • Photographs

    Construction of stepper harness at Beckman Instruments Final Assembly Department

    • Part of Beckman Instruments Systems Division Final Assembly Department
    • 1961

    General view of several female employees assembling a stepper harness for use with a NASA system. The employees visible in the photograph are identified as follows (left to right): Evelyn Gulick; Agnes Ross; and Edith…

    • Subject Factories, Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Women employees, Beckman Instruments, inc.
  • 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
  • Photographs

    Portrait of Gae Adamson Bennett (b. 1917)

    • 1950s

    Portrait of agricultural economist Gae Adamson Bennett (b. 1917). While working for the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, Bennett co-authored numerous volumes on agricultural production…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Department of Agriculture
    • Subject Women in science, Agriculture--Research, Employees, Women scientists, Agriculture--Economic aspects, United States. Department of Agriculture
  • Photographs

    Group portrait of U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel

    • 1952-May

    Group photograph of unidentified female personnel at an unidentified United States Department of Agriculture facility. A large board bearing a sheaf of wheat is visible in front of the group.

    • Subject Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, United States. Department of Agriculture, Women employees
  • Photograph of Claire Schultz
    11 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Claire K. Schultz

    • 1997-Jul-09

    Claire K. Schultz begins the interview by discussing her childhood in south central Pennsylvania. Raised primarily by her father and grandmother, Schultz dreamed of becoming a doctor from a young age. Inspired by her…

    • Interviewee Schultz, Claire K.
    • Interviewer Williams, Robert V.
    • Subject Women in science, Information storage and retrieval systems--Chemistry, Librarians--Biography, Librarians, Drexel University, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Chemistry--Abstracting and indexing, Women in library science, Chemistry--Nomenclature, Sperry Rand (Corporation). Univac Division, Schultz, Claire K.
  • Postage stamps, Ephemera

    First Day Cover commemorating Rachel Carson

    • 1981-May-28

    Philatelic First Day Cover commemorating American marine biologist, author, and conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964). Part of the "Great Americans Series," the envelope bears the postmark of Springdale,…

    • Subject Women in science, Postage stamps, Women scientists, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately), Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
  • Postage stamps, Ephemera

    Postage stamp honoring Dr. Virginia Apgar

    • 1995

    United States postage stamp honoring Dr. Virginia Apgar (1909-1974), an American obstetrical anesthesiologist best known as the inventor of the Apgar Score used to quickly assess the health of a newborn child…

    • Creator Of Work United States Postal Service
    • Subject Women in science, Postage stamps, Apgar, Virginia, 1909-1974, Apgar score, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Women physicians
  • Postage stamps, Ephemera

    First Day Cover honoring Emily Bissell

    • 1980-May-31

    Philatelic First Day Cover honoring American social worker and activist Emily Bissell (1861-1948), best known for her work to combat tuberculosis and for introducing Christmas Seals to the United States. The cover bears…

    • Creator Of Work ArtCraft
    • Subject Seals and labels (Philately), Postage stamps, Postmarks, Bissell, Emily P. (Emily Perkins), 1861-1948, Science on postage stamps, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately), Commemorative postage stamps, Women in the social sciences
  • 15 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history with Isabella and Jerome Karle

    • 1987-Feb-26 (First session)
    • 1987-Jun-15 (Second session)
    • 1987-Sep-09 (Third session)

    Isabella and Jerome Karle met while both were pursuing doctorates in physical chemistry under Professor Lawrence Brockway at the University of Michigan. After earning their degrees (and marrying), they worked on the…

    • Interviewee Karle, Jerome, Karle, Isabella, 1921-2017
    • Interviewer Bohning, James J., Van Keuren, David
    • Subject Women in science, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Crystallographers, Karle, Jerome, Chemists, Women chemists, Chemists--Biography, Nobel Prize winners, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), Karle, Isabella, 1921-2017, Water--Fluoridation
  • Photographs

    Styrofoam inspection at Dow facility

    • 1990

    General view of an unidentified employee inspecting a piece of Styrofoam insulation at a Dow Chemical Company facility. Invented in 1941 by researchers in Dow's Chemical Physics Lab, "Styrofoam" properly refers to the…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Chemical industry, Insulation (Heat), Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Foam, Polystyrene, Women employees
  • Photograph of Stephanie Kwolek
    6 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Stephanie L. Kwolek (1998)

    • 1998-Mar-21

    Stephanie Kwolek begins the interview with a discussion of her early career at DuPont. She joined DuPont in 1946, the same year she earned her B.S. in chemistry at Carnegie-Mellon University. Kwolek spent much of her…

    • Interviewee Kwolek, Stephanie, 1923-2014
    • Interviewer Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette
    • Subject Women in science, Polyphenyleneterephthalamide, Polymers, Women scientists, Chemists, Kwolek, Stephanie, 1923-2014, Chemists--Biography, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, National Research Council (U.S.)
  • 6 items
    Medical instruments and apparatus

    SILASTIC demonstration mammary sizer implant seamless design 350 CC

    • 1970

    SILASTIC demonstration mammary breast implant/sizer/prosthesis in original packaging and box with accompanying paperwork.

    A: White cardboard box with blue product label adhered to top of box. Box opens to reveal…

    • Manufacturer Dow Corning Corporation
    • Subject Silicone rubber, Breast implants, Implants, Artificial, Prosthesis, Women--Health and hygiene
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