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Doctor Mary Walker. Female portrait of American Civil War time by Mathew Brady.

Doctor Mary Walker. Female portrait of American Civil War time by Math...

Original Caption: Doctor Mary Walker..U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-2112..From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)..Photographer: ... More

Miss Clara Barton. Female portrait of American Civil War time by Mathew Brady.

Miss Clara Barton. Female portrait of American Civil War time by Mathe...

Original Caption: Miss Clara Barton..U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-1857..From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)..Photographer: B... More

Trans-Mississippi Expo, Grand Court

Trans-Mississippi Expo, Grand Court

Description: At the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska, visitors admire the view across the reflecting pool of the Grand Court. The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Governmen... More

Jacqueline Cochran: Internationally Known Woman Aviator

Jacqueline Cochran: Internationally Known Woman Aviator

Local call number: RC12184..Title: Jacqueline Cochran: Internationally Known Woman Aviator..Date: ca. 1940..General Note: Cochran was born near Panama City about 1910, but grew up in Pensacola She was orphaned ... More

Ringling Circus clown Lou Jacobs with Carla Wallenda: Sarasota, Florida

Ringling Circus clown Lou Jacobs with Carla Wallenda: Sarasota, Florid...

Local call number: JJS0660..Title: Ringling Circus clown Lou Jacobs with Carla Wallenda: Sarasota, Florida..Date: 1941..Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 5 x 4 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz... More

Jacqueline Cochran, woman aviator

Jacqueline Cochran, woman aviator

Local call number: pr00449..Title: [Jacqueline Cochran, woman aviator]..Physical descrip: 1 photograph: b&w; 8 x 10 in. ..Date captured: 1954. ..Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida ( http://www.fl... More

Jacqueline Cochran (d. 1980), scientist

Jacqueline Cochran (d. 1980), scientist

Description: During her aviation career, from the 1930s through the 1960s, Jacqueline Cochran (d. 1980) set more speed and altitude records than any contemporary pilot, male or female, and was the first woman t... More

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), walking in to the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf Adolf

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), walking in to the Nobel ceremony wit...

Description: This photo was taken in 1963, as physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) was being escorted by King Gustav Adolf of Sweden to a gala banquet following the ceremony during which she received the ... More

February 17, 1922 - postal stamp

February 17, 1922 - postal stamp

Apologies for the abysmal photographic quality of this one, but felt it was interesting enough to include here. This is the nascent Irish Free State "stamping its authority" on existing British postage stamps..... More