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American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
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Trio of Druggists

Date: 04 30 1948
Description: A trio of pharmacists consult one another about a prescription order.
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Pharmacy Class, U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Students from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School perform practical experiments for the chemistry phase of their course. The officer in charge of th...
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Aqua Pura

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: This student of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School is carefully measuring out a quantity of distilled water for a prescription. Distilled water is ...
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Filtering a Prescription

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A Pharmacist Mate-in-Training from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School filters a liquid for a test prescription. This filtration process helped to e...
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Weighing Powders

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School carefully measures and weighs powdered ingredients for a prescription.
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Measuring with a Medicine Dropper

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School uses a small medicine dropper to precisely measure and mix liquid ingredients for a prescription.
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Learning about Medicine Bottles

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Members from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School meet in the pharmaceutical laboratory where they checked medicinal products and learned to identify...
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Women Astronomers

Date: 1880
Description: Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the United States at Vassar College.
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Students in Lab

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Description: Students select chemicals to mix in their pharmaceutical laboratory class.
Drawing

Chemistry Lab Drawing

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Description: Drawing of students at work in the chemistry lab, at the Pharmacy College, Columbia University.
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Female Pharmacy Students

Date: 1915
Description: A professor checks the progress of several female students in a pharmaceutical laboratory course.
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Microscopes in the Classroom

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Description: Pharmacy students examine specimens in their microscopes during a class.
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Laboratory Classroom

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Description: An empty pharmaceutical laboratory classroom, stocked with supplies for new students.
Postcard

Curtiss with Langley's Aerodrome

Date: 06 1914
Description: The Aerodome, invented by Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as reconstructed by Glenn Curtiss at Hammondsport.
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Chemical Laboratory

Date: 1913
Description: View of a chemical laboratory at International Harvester's Osborne Works. The factory was later known as "Auburn Works."
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Colonial Trade Room

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Description: An interior view of a colonial trade room of an old fort in New York.
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Our Lady of Wisdom Academy

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a science classroom at Putnam Catholic Academy. Two chalkboards line the walls and stools stand at laboratory tables throughout t...
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Man Working in Creamery

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Description: A man is weighing milk and taking a sample for testing in acid in butter fat, creamery, East Aurora, N.Y.., U.S.A." Lantern slide.

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