Why is She Away? The Problem of Sickness Among Women in Industry. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1945. 21 pages. 8.25" x 5.25" inches. This pamphlet produced by the Industrial Health Research Board of the Medical Research Council is part of a series "Conditions for Industrial Health and Efficiency." This.....
Political cartoon of a woman doctor taking the pulse of a male patient seated in an armchair. This Wood engraving is after G. Du Maurier, 1865. Published in Harper’s Weekly. January 1866. Caption reads, “Lady physicians. Who is this interesting invalid? It is young Reginald de Braces who has succeeded.....
Autograph letter signed from a male doctor, E. C. Houston, practicing out of Memphis, TN to a woman doctor, Lydia Bailey, located in Philadelphia. 6 pages, 7 ¾ x 5 in. Houston addresses the letter “Dear Doctor” and goes on to write about his interest in finding a wife who.....
(Medicine/Science). [Press Photograph]: Squibbs Lab Early Production of Penicillin, 1944. Press photo of science work done by women to further the WWII effort. Silver gelatin prints. 7.25 x 9 in. Verso photos contain byline "Squibbs Lab Early production of penicillin" along with stamp "REF. DEPT. 3-15 '44 N.E.A." Very good.....
(Women Employment). [Photograph]: Original vintage photograph of operating room and surgery team. Photograph shows eleven figures dressed all in white, standing around a patient in an early operating room. While most of the medical workers are men, two women stand at the edges of the group, and the woman standing.....
Margaret Burbridge "Synthesis of the Elements in Stars." First Edition. Journal article, presented in original wraps. Reviews of Modern Physics 29, October 1957, pp. 547-650. A seminal 100+ page paper that "describes hydrogen and helium are formed in the interior of stars" (Daintith, Oxford Dictionary of Scientists, 268). This paper.....
1961 Nobel Laureate in Physics for his researches on the resonance absorption of radiation from nuclear transitions and his discovery of the Moessbauer effect, which bears his name. This property was used in the 1960 classic general relativity experiment that proved Einstein's theory. Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, in German.....
Morton, Rosalie. A Women Surgeon. Book Signed. [New York ] . Frederick A. Stokes Company 1937. About Morton's experience as one of the only female surgeons in WWI. She went on to become the founder of the Women's Hospital Service.
[Women in Science] [Medicine] Original Gelatin silver print photograph of a Rustic pharmacological laboratory with female technician, c. 1910. Three individuals pose amongst dozens of glass vials containing medical powders and remedies. 3.5 x 5 in. Original black and white photograph. Two figures wear white aprons or smocks, indicating their.....
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. William Kotzwinkle. G.P Putnam's Sons: New York, 1982. First edition. Blue boards with gold gilt title on spine. Original dust jacket shows the lights of a spaceship beaming through thick cloud cover with the text across bottom "based on the screeplay by Melissa Mathison." Under archival.....
Distinguished Engineer who played a major role in the development of the submarine for practical employment. In 1887, Lake's "Argonaut" became the first successful voyage by submarine into the open sea. Lake also innovated submarine torpedo boats, sunken ship detection devices and many other nautical inventions. Signed check, entirely in.....
[MATERNITY] BABCOCK, L.A. Office of the Silver Uterine Supporter Manufactory, [1872]. First edition pamphlet. 6" x 9". 4 pages. Over the course of the 19th century, the average American woman gave birth to six children, not including children lost to miscarriages and stillbirths. Contraception was not widely available, and pregnancy.....
Kapel, Holger. Atlas of the Stone-Age Cultures of Qatar.(Jutland Archaeological Society Publications) Copenhagen: Aarhus University Press, 1967. Vol. 1. Folio. With 47 plates, 3 photographs. Written in both English and Arabic. This is the first volume in a series of reports, which presents the findings of The Danish Archeological Expedition.....
University diploma for a young German girl studying medicine. 1919. Measures 8.5 x 14 inches. 4 pages with 2 page inserts. Certificate reads in part, "The leaving certificate of Miss Charlotte Glass from Berlin is hereby attested that after being enrolled in the matriculation of the university from easter to.....
(Women). [Photograph]: Female Scientist At Work In Laboratory, 1910. Large sepia gelatin photograph. Image measures 9" x 7" with a 10"x8" white boarder. Light toning of boarder. Near fine condition. One female scientist sits at a laboratory table amongst her four male colleges. Her expression, unlike the others, in sidelong.....
Silver gelatin photo of nurses in uniform posed in operating room. C. 1900. Measures 8" x 11" inches. Photo shows 25 women arranged in three rows with 3 men standing behind them. The nurses wear long white smocks over gray dresses with white cuffs and small white hats perched on.....
Original 1930's Photo showing a female dermatologist working with a machine on a patient. On the upper right we can see the dermatologist's degree or certificate. Written on the back: "1176 E. Main St. Aunt Rosa (Dermatologist) shown working on Helen's face skin". 5 x 4 in. Black and white.....
Richard Nelson the 19 year old Radio Operator of the "Enola Gay", which dropped the 1st Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Signed check, dated January 15,1996, drawn on Bank of America, Riverside, California. Completed in his hand. Very good condition.
Gelatin silver print vintage photo showing Early women engineers at NASA . 8½ x 11 in. . Large black and white photo of 4 women engineers at NASA wearing uniforms and ID tags. Tis is Black and White Modern reprint Signed in black ink by one of the engineers in.....
COMPLETE ORIGINAL newspaper , the Kansas City Journal (Missouri) dated Aug 3, 1881. Inside page, 1/2 column report headlined: "The Phonograph." Tells of its invention, its future and about Edison, its inventor. In excellent condition.
Gertrude B. Elion. Biochemist and Pharmacologist. 1988 Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine. Signed photo. Original silver gelatin print. Signature in black ink in lower right corner “Gertrude B. Elion”. 5 x 3.5 inches. Elion’s research led to the creation of many important drugs, including AZT an antiviral medication.....
[Women’s Education] [Penn State] First women enrolled in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. October 17, 1934. Original silver gelatin print press photograph. 8 x 6 in. Original press caption typed on image verso. “Taking a Man’s Course. Alexandra Tillson, the first girl to enroll.....
Collection of 6 photos depicting Red Cross nurses treating patients, including many soldiers from WWI. Photos range in size from 4.25" x 2.5" to 10" x 8" inches. One photo dated 1919, one dated 1924, the rest in that same time period. The photo dated from 1919 depicts Red Cross.....
1942 Royal Medical College of Romania License to Practice Medicine for a Woman. Mary Roth Walsh documented a decline in women physicians in the US in the first half of the twentieth century, such that there were fewer women physicians in 1950 than there were in 1900.
[Women in Science] [Education] Original photograph of a Large co-ed science classroom with laboratory tables in Soviet Latvia. Small classroom laboratory with 39 figures, including 6 women. 1946. Printed on verso “Foto K. Rake, Riga…” 4 x 6 inches. Twelve figures, including two women, wear white lab coats and handle.....