science

[Gertrude M. Hubbard and baby daughter Mabel]

Woman holding baby girl. Photographer unidentified. Case: plain leather, push button. Accompanying note: Gertrude M. Hubbard, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Form... More

For once, science and religion agree / Keppler.

Print shows Chauncey M. Depew and Robert G. Ingersoll, each in the arms of the other, pointing to quotations attributed to them that justify American imperialist activities in the Philippines through the introd... More

Alexander Graham Bell

Portrait, bust, 3/4, facing left. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.

Alexander Graham Bell Frank Boteler

Photograph shows portrait of Bell. Signed on verso. Date from similar photograph of Bell by Boteler published in Camera magazine, vol. VIII, 1904, page 227. Annenberg batch 5

[George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, standing in field, pr...

Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J694-520

Paul Brockett, Librarian, Smithsonian Nat'l Academy of Science, 7/19

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Burdine's department store, business in 163rd St. Shopping Center, Mia...

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Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from September 1901 to July 17, 19...

The vanity of arts and sciences

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USS SHACKLE, ARS 9, Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK

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[Title page of Witelo, De Natura, illus. with composite of various phe...

Illus. in: Witelo, De Natura, 1535. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rainbow; Light; Natural phenomena; Science; BI Works; RBD; Shelf.

[Galileo offering his telescope to three women (possibly Urania and at...

Illus. in: Opere di Galileo Galilei .... Bologna : Per gli hh del Dozza, 1655-56 [v.1, 1656] Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C.... More

Professor Bell in Lyceum Hall, Salem, addressing a party of scientific...

Print shows the inventor Alexander Graham Bell demonstrating his experimental telephone, which had a connection between Salem and Boston, Massachusetts. Bell had given previous demonstrations in February 1877 a... More

[Galileo Galilei, half-length portrait, facing left]

Possibly a reproduction of a painting by Giusto Sustermans. "Edne. Alinari...no. 104." Captioned in Italian.

[George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, seated on steps, faci...

Reference copy (modern print) in BIOG FILE - Carver, George Washington. Forms part of: Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J694-159

[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, three-quarter length portrait, standin...

Photo copyrighted by Pach. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931

3/4 lgth., standing in his laboratory, facing front; alongside large bottle of distilled water. Photoprint copyrighted by Brown Bros., N.Y. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card t... More

Vivisection / Will Crawford.

Illustration shows two men in a make-shift laboratory, about to operate on a live rabbit; a group of concerned citizens has entered on the left, attempting to stop the operation; the spirits of many past victim... More

FUNK, MISS ELIZABETH. IN LABORATORY

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Albert Einstein, Washington, D.C.

Title devised by Library staff; location based on location in related, adjacent negatives. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & ... More

Kaiser shipyards, Richmond, Calif. 1943. Welder-trainee Josie Lucille ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Geometry students watching a class demonstration at W...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and I...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by photographer. Photograph taken at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Published in the Financial times Newspaper. Gift; Michael Geissinger;... More

White albino alligator (one of fifty in the world) at the National Aca...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

The California Science Center in Los Angeles, California's Exposition ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an office building, commercial building, 20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Scientific laboratory, color separation negat...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about... More

Northern Canal, Pawtucket Gatehouse, Northern Canal & Merrimack River,...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Easton & Northern Railroad, Lehigh River Bridge, Spanning Lehigh River...

Significance: This structures is significant for its highly complex geometry, with skew trusses carrying trucks on a reverse curve. It possesses a remarkable degree of integrity for a 19th century steel truss b... More

Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by Sir John Herschel in his...

Print shows illustration for the New York Sun relating to the Great Moon Hoax with human-bat creatures, unicorns, and other imaginery beings on the Moon. 246 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on co... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Artifice, ruse, and subterfuge at the card table : a treatise on the s...

[Four views of heads with proportions delineated in perspective grids,...

Illus. and text in: Hierin sind begriffin vier Bucher von menschlichen Proportion / Albrecht Durer. [Nurenberg : Gedrucky durch I. Formschneyder, auff Verlegung Albrecht Durers velassen Witib], 1528. Published ... More

Charles Lyell Esqr. F.R.S. F.G.S

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Duval, P.S.

[Different species of bats, with details of heads, wing and teeth stru...

Illus. in: Le regne animale / Georges Cuvier. Paris : Fortin, Masson et cie, [1836-1849]. pl. 24. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 95.

[Sir Charles Lyell, full-length portrait, seated at small table, facin...

Henry Carrington Bolton Collection. In carte de visite album.

[Science class in Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, Washington...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 894.

A map of Sable Island showing the location of the known wrecks upon th...

Photograph shows a framed map, "Known Wrecks on Sable Island compiled from official reports by S. D. McDonald, F.C.S." (probably the 1890 edition) with a large number of ships indicating locations of shipwrecks... More

[Chemistry laboratory at Tuskegee Institute, ca. 1902]

Photograph shows interior view of chemistry laboratory/classroom with students at the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. George Washington Carver stands second from right, facing front (framed by doorway). ... More

BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active dates of Harris & Ewing, Inc. Portrait series. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information abou... More

BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active dates of Harris & Ewing, Inc. Portrait series. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information abou... More

[Albert Einstein, Warren Harding and group at White House, Washington,...

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Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Chemical prospecting for oi...

Harvesting embryonic membranes from eggs infected with louse-borne typ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Johnson & Johnson, Research Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Organic...

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The mysteries of nature and art, conteined in 4 severall tretises

Title page engr.; books 2-4 have special t.p. Bookplate of Howard C. Levis. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1480 ESTC S122341 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Advocating science and hope : draft essay

A draft of an essay written for the Washington Post Book World. The final version was titled "With science on our side." In the essay, Sagan traces his desire to become a scientist back to elementary school, n... More

Oakley Plantation, House, State Highway 965, Saint Francisville, West ...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Oakley Plantation House is, perhaps, the finest surviving historic example of Louisiana's rare Angle Tidewater Creole architecture. ...As one of only four sur... More

Natural magick, by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane: in twenty books...

Title-page mounted. Originally pub. in Latin. ESTC R33476 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC scc 2018-10-03 update LAC ecr 2018-10-10 review (2 cards) LAC aaa 2019-04-10 no ... More

USS SHACKLE, ARS 9, Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Third & Fourth Aven...

Significance: Founded by industrialist Peter Cooper, the Cooper Union was a pioneering institution in providing free private higher education. Its original building has historic technological importance becaus... More

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Third & Fourth Aven...

Significance: Founded by industrialist Peter Cooper, the Cooper Union was a pioneering institution in providing free private higher education. Its original building has historic technological importance becaus... More

Divina proportione: opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi neces...

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New Jersey--the wizard of electricity--Thomas A. Edison's system of el...

Six views showing Menlo Park and exterior of Edison's laboratory, and electric light apparatus. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1880 Jan. 10., p. 353.

[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, half-length portrait, working in chemi...

Copyright by Brown Bros. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

The Detroit news timely topics. Bell's first telephone

[Albert Einstein, Washington, D.C.]

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[Albert Einstein with wife Elsa; State, War, and Navy building in back...

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Demonstrates Bell Laboratory wonders. Sergius P. Grace, Vice-President...

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Keeping up with science / Shari.

Poster promoting the study of science, showing a microscope, open book, and an eye. Date stamped on verso: Sep 7 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / ... More

Cold storage of spotted fever and typhus fever vaccines. Vaccine in la...

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The sterility of each batch of vaccine is tested before it leaves the ...

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Production of butylene glycol. Butylene glycol is recovered from corn ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Washington, D.C. Walter Spangenberg in a solid geometry class at Woodr...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Washington, D.C. Walter Spangenberg (holding the pointer) giving a dem...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Washington, D.C. Walter Spangenberg (at far right) in his geometry cla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teaching, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Laboratory of Alexander Graham Bell, Boston, Massachusetts

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Mural: "Science," by Millard Owen Sheets at the Department of Interior...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 107"x 77"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line... More

Statue of the legendary American botanist and inventor outside the Geo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

The mysteries of nature and art, conteined in 4 severall tretises

Title page engr.; books 2-4 have special t.p. Bookplate of Howard C. Levis. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1480 ESTC S122341 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Drawings by Alexander Graham Bell?, from September 1901 to July 17, 19...

Article by Alexander Graham Bell, 1910

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, W...

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structur... More

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Third & Fourth Aven...

Significance: Founded by industrialist Peter Cooper, the Cooper Union was a pioneering institution in providing free private higher education. Its original building has historic technological importance becaus... More

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Third & Fourth Aven...

Significance: Founded by industrialist Peter Cooper, the Cooper Union was a pioneering institution in providing free private higher education. Its original building has historic technological importance becaus... More

[Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus discussing matters of astronomy be...

Frontispiece in: Dialogo ... sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e coprenicano / Galileo Galilei. Fiorenza : G.B. Landini, 1632. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washingto... More

Allegory of arts and sciences

Print shows a tribute to the arts and sciences with women instructing young boys and girls, showing symbols relating to music, geometry, chemistry, geography, navigation, painting, industry, and astronomy. Sta... More

[Mabel Hubbard Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, Dr. Bartol, Alexander Melv...

Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress).

[Students in a science class conducting experiments, Western High Scho...

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Women scientists: standing: Miss Nellie A. Brown; L to R: Miss Lucia M...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Treasury Dept. Chemical laboratory of the Internal Revenue Bureau wher...

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Public Health Surgeon. Dr. Charles Armstrong, Public Health Surgeon an...

Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec Temp... More

[Albert Einstein speaking]

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Drawing off solutions into test tubes in micro-biological determinatio...

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Testing yellow fever serum by injecting it into the brain of a monkey....

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Testing yellow fever serum by injecting into brain of monkey. USPHS (U...

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The chemical laboratory where Edison's teams worked on chemicals that ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

[Compound microscope as rendered by artist in Descartes "La Dioptrique...

Illus. in: Discours de la methode .... Plus La dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et La geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete methode. Leyde : De li̓mprimerie de I. Maire, 1637. Published in: The tradition of techno... More

G. Cuvier / E.Hader, pixnit ; photo. u. verl. v. Sophus Williams, Berl...

Photograph of painting shows Baron Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Printed on verso: George Baron von Cuvier; stamped: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Re... More

An appalling attempt to muzzle the watch-dog of science / F. Graetz.

Illustration shows Herbert Spencer as a statue of a large dog at the entrance to a public building emitting rays of light labeled "Science"; many diminutive men, wearing oversized top hats, scamper about with l... More

[Grade school, Washington, D.C. - children drawing and cutting rectang...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. In album: "4th Division." Caption card tracings: Geometry; Schools; Children; Geogr; Art.

Albert Einstein & wife, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

The law can not be "removed" by Christian Science / Keppler.

Illustration shows an oversized female figure labeled "Law" pointing with her left hand to a sign that states "Contagious diseases must be reported to the Board of Health" and holding in her right hand a little... More

[Dr. Alexander Gettler, toxicologist and forensic chemist with the Off...

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Drug & food Laboratory

Title and date from log book. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 854E, frame 6. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.

The pathway to knowledg : containing the first principles of geometrie...

On verso of t. p. : "The arguments of the foure bookes." The vol. contains but two of the four: but the preface of book second speaks of the "other bookes, whiche now are lefte vnprinted," giving the reasons. T... More

The pathway to knowledg : containing the first principles of geometrie...

On verso of t. p. : "The arguments of the foure bookes." The vol. contains but two of the four: but the preface of book second speaks of the "other bookes, whiche now are lefte vnprinted," giving the reasons. T... More