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Mitzi Strother, Miss Florida 1941, posing with a seaside backdrop

Mitzi Strother, Miss Florida 1941, posing with a seaside backdrop

Local call number: JJS0283..Title: Mitzi Strother, Miss Florida 1941, posing with a seaside backdrop..Date: 1941..Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 4 x 5 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Colle... More

left to right: John Rock, Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994), Richard Norris Pierson, Jr. (b. 1929), and Cornelius P. Trowbridge (1898?-1973)

left to right: John Rock, Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994), Richard Nor...

Subject: Rock, John. Lasker, Mary. Pierson, Richard N. 1929-. Trowbridge, Cornelius P. c. 1898-1973. Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Harvard Medical School..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 19... More

Stella Pecelj Collett (ca. 1922-2010)

Stella Pecelj Collett (ca. 1922-2010)

Subject: Collett, Stella Pecelj c. 1921-2010. Bell & Howell Co. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1414]..Summary: Stella Pecelj Collett (ca. 1922-201... More

A man riding on the back of a white horse next to a dog. Farmer man shepherd, people.

A man riding on the back of a white horse next to a dog. Farmer man sh...

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Catherine Macfarlane (1877-1969)

Catherine Macfarlane (1877-1969)

Subject: Macfarlane, Catharine 1877-1969..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1940. C. 1940s..Topic: Gynecology. Cancer--Research. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5682]..Summary: C... More

Marion Winifred Sheahan, R.N. (1892-1994)

Marion Winifred Sheahan, R.N. (1892-1994)

Creator: Wain & Baruch..Subject: Sheahan, Marion Winifred 1892-1994. National Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Services. American Public Health Association. National Organization for Public Health Nursi... More

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), scientist

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), scientist

Subject: McClintock, Barbara 1902-1992. Carnegie Institution of Washington Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. American Association of University Women..Type: Black-and-white pho... More

Mary Lura Sherrill (1888-1968) - Public domain photogrpaph

Mary Lura Sherrill (1888-1968) - Public domain photogrpaph

Subject: Sherrill, Mary Lura 1888-1968. Mount Holyoke College. Randolph-Macon College. University of Chicago..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1947..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientists..Local number: SIA... More

Wem schoolchildren learning domestic skills and gardening

Wem schoolchildren learning domestic skills and gardening

Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Plant ysgol Wem yn dysgu sut i arddio a gwneud gwaith tŷ.Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002).Dyddiad/Date: December 1, 1947..Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd ffilm / Film neg... More

A man wearing a hat and glasses looks off into the distance. Farmer man 1940s.

A man wearing a hat and glasses looks off into the distance. Farmer ma...

A man with a mustache and glasses looks off into the distance / A man wearing a hat and glasses / Public domain vintage photo.

James Valentine - Grafton Street

James Valentine - Grafton Street

Grafton Street in Dublin, long before pedestrianisation was even a twinkle in Dublin Corporation's eye. Check out the tags for the car registrations that are clear enough to read - the only one I'm unsure of is... More

The McGrath Family emigrating to Canada from Wrexham, 1948

The McGrath Family emigrating to Canada from Wrexham, 1948

Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Teulu McGrath oedd yn ymfudo i Ganada o Wrecsam, 1948.Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002).Dyddiad/Date: September 6, 1948.Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd ffilm / Film negati... More

Flora May Slosson Wuellner, scientist

Flora May Slosson Wuellner, scientist

Subject: Wuellner, Flora Slosson. University of Michigan. University of Chicago..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1945..Topic: Congregationalists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3421]..Summary: ... More

Elizabeth Roboz Einstein (1904-1995)

Elizabeth Roboz Einstein (1904-1995)

Creator: Skeleton Studios..Subject: Einstein, Elizabeth Roboz. Cornell University. Stanford Research Institute. Stanford University. University of Vienna. University of Budapest..Type: Black-and-white photograp... More

Alma Whiffen Barksdale (1916-1981)

Alma Whiffen Barksdale (1916-1981)

Subject: Barksdale, Alma Whiffen 1916-1981. University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Upjohn Company. New York Botanical Garden..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1948. 27-Oct-48..Topic: Botany. Women sc... More

Ruth Park, pre 1947, by unknown photographer

Ruth Park, pre 1947, by unknown photographer

Notes: Ruth Park (1922-2010) was a well-known New Zealand-born Australian author. She wrote for all ages, from classic children's picture books like 'The Muddle-headed Wombat', teen and young adult novels, 'Pla... More

British Women’s Olympic swimming team, London, 1948.

British Women’s Olympic swimming team, London, 1948.

With temperatures around ninety degrees, the members of the British Women’s Olympic swimming team kept cool in the best manner possible on the day before the official opening of the Olympic Games. ..Daily Heral... More

left to right: Anesia Pinheiro Machado (1902-1999) and Pilot Dean E. Robinson

left to right: Anesia Pinheiro Machado (1902-1999) and Pilot Dean E. R...

Subject: Machado, Anesia Pinheiro 1902-1999. Robinson, Dean E. Pan American World Airways, Inc. Brazil Air Force..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1948. C. 1948..Topic: Women air pilots..Local number: S... More

Teresa Sudol and JoAnn Croak playing a game of Gobi: Lido Beach, Florida

Teresa Sudol and JoAnn Croak playing a game of Gobi: Lido Beach, Flori...

Local call number: JJS0271..Title: Teresa Sudol and JoAnn Croak playing a game of Gobi: Lido Beach, Florida ..Date: October 3, 1949..Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 4 x 5 in...Series Title: Joseph Jan... More

A black and white photo of a man with a beard. People homeless male, people.

A black and white photo of a man with a beard. People homeless male, p...

A man with a hat and a hat / A man in a hat and coat looks into the camera / Public domain stock photo.

A box with a pair of scissors in it. Hair pin fashion, beauty fashion.

A box with a pair of scissors in it. Hair pin fashion, beauty fashion.

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Barbara Chadwick - Hoppings. Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

Barbara Chadwick - Hoppings. Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

Barbara Chadwick posing for the camera at the Hoppings at Town Moor. 1940s..The Hoppings is a popular fair in the North East of England, held in the last full week of June every year on Newcastle's Town Moor, s... More

Gertrude "Tiby" Eisen, baseball player. Black and white portrait photograph

Gertrude "Tiby" Eisen, baseball player. Black and white portrait photo...

Title: Gertrude "Tiby" Eisen..Description: "Tiby" Eisen swings a baseball bat...Creator: Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: 1945 ..Collection: American Jewish Historical Society Photography Col... More

Snowhite and the Seven Corkmen, Leinster, Ireland

Snowhite and the Seven Corkmen, Leinster, Ireland

Back to our Ghosts of Xmas Past extravaganza - and today we're being haunted by the cover of the script of this pantomime that was performed by the Bernadette Players at Christmas 1941 in the Bernadette Hall, R... More

Synge Street Boys, Leinster, Ireland

Synge Street Boys, Leinster, Ireland

Gorgeous class photo from Synge Street School in Dublin. Love the facial expressions and the haircuts, and look at the rebel (top left) with his hair parted on the right.....Would love to get names for some of ... More

Arthur Henri Poole - March 10, 1944

Arthur Henri Poole - March 10, 1944

Award winning army boxing team at the Barracks in Waterford, complete with their silverware. Would assume that the chap at the back in the polo neck was their trainer...Date: Friday, 10 March 1944..NLI Ref.: P_... More

Arthur Henri Poole - December 30, 1946

Arthur Henri Poole - December 30, 1946

A misty day on the quayside of the River Suir in Waterford city but a boathouse is visible on the far bank. The first building is the Adelphi Hotel, but other businesses are evident next door: H.B. Brandon Ferg... More

Arthur Henri Poole - December 13, 1941

Arthur Henri Poole - December 13, 1941

The derelict remains of Whittles (shop or pub) on the corner of Bolton Street and Lombard Street in Waterford City...Couldn't resist this for the good cache of posters (promise to resist poster addiction for a ... More

Arthur Henri Poole - November 23, 1949

Arthur Henri Poole - November 23, 1949

A little blurry, but who could keep this many children still? These are girls at the Sisters of Charity School in Waterford having an early Christmas Party. Incidentally, this is a rare example of a Coca-Cola s... More

Arthur Henri Poole - November 12, 1947

Arthur Henri Poole - November 12, 1947

We think that this is the Walsh/Power wedding. The photo was certainly ordered by a Mr James Walsh, and at least one side of the wedding party may have been from Killeen, Co. Wexford...There is no bouquet in ev... More

Arthur Henri Poole - September 10, 1943

Arthur Henri Poole - September 10, 1943

Staff of William Power & Co. at work in the firm's tomato plantation, on Dunmore Road, Waterford. Particularly like this photo as it gives the illusion of a Mediterranean climate at work in usually far more chi... More