[Science and Medicine][Nobel Prize] Cori, Carl Ferdinand and Cori, Gerty Theresa. Large correspondence archive spanning the scientific ascent and forced displacement of a Central European Jewish intellectual family whose work reshaped twentieth-century biochemistry. The archive traces Carl F. Cori’s development from émigré researcher to recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize.....

Women aviators and astronauts documented in a group of press and documentary photographs spanning the late 1930s through the 1970s record the gradual expansion of women’s participation in aviation and space exploration during the twentieth century. Aviation emerged as a male dominated field in the early decades of powered flight.....

Tereshkova, Valentina. Signed photograph commemorating the historic flight of the Soviet cosmonaut who became the first woman to travel into space during the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Valentina Tereshkova launched aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963, completing a three day mission in which.....

[Women in Medicine] [Women's Employment] Photo archive documenting women’s participation in medicine, nursing, surgery, laboratory science, and public health from approximately 1900 through 1946, providing primary-source evidence of women working within institutional medicine during the decades in which their access to formal medical training and professional authority remained limited and.....

Mead, Margaret. Two autograph letters signed, 1963, documenting her recollection of meeting poet Dylan Thomas at a New American Library gathering in mid century New York, providing direct evidence of interaction between leading figures in anthropology and literary culture. Written during a period when Mead was an established public intellectual.....

Nursing student photograph album, circa 1915, documenting the training, social life, and professional formation of young women entering the medical field during the First World War, with direct relevance to the expansion of nursing education, public health campaigns, and women’s participation in wartime medical systems in the United States. The.....

[Women in Science] [Marie Curie] [ Lise Meitner] [Women's History] Women scientists press photo archive documenting how newspapers and syndication services translated female expertise into public image culture in the decade spanning the late interwar and immediate postwar years, when scientific authority remained coded as male and women researchers were.....

[Women's Education] [Women in Science] Photo archive documenting young women in scientific education across American, British, and European institutions from the 1880s through the mid-twentieth century, capturing the incremental and contested expansion of female access to chemistry, biology, and computing at a time when institutional science was actively considered a......

[Women's History] Women in scientific and medical laboratories photo archive documenting female participation in laboratory education, microscopy, chemical work, dental training, and technical employment across the first half of the twentieth century, providing concrete visual evidence of how women entered scientific institutions in the years before full professional parity. The.....

California Bay View Hospital photograph album, circa 1920s, documenting hospital-based nursing labor, clinical environments, and domestic social networks within an early twentieth-century medical setting. The album provides visual evidence of women’s professional roles in institutional healthcare during a period of expanding nursing formalization, while also capturing physician authority, patient care.....

[Women in Medicine][Nursing] Women’s dormitory photo archive documenting nursing work and communal living, possibly tied to a hospital dormitory or nurses’ residence in Clinton, Iowa, circa 1952 to 1953. The handwritten captions indicate that the women pictured both lived and worked in this setting with phrases like “Nurse’s Home,” “Joanie.....

[Women's Education] [Nursing] Photo album containing 148 original photos, the majority of which are of nurses in uniform. Ca. 1910. Measures 5.5" x 8," 76 pages. One photo identifies Mt. Helena in Montana. This album offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of young educated women in the early twentieth.....

[Women in Science] Archive of two photos of women doing experiments in science laboratories in the early 1920s. Two silver gelatin photos of various sizes. The first photo is of of female students conducting experiments in a chemistry lab at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Three women students and their instructor.....