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The History of Science collection is comprised photographs and photoengravings of important scientists at work and at social functions, including group portraits of science conferences and societies. Partial item-level descriptions follow.
958:0056:0001-0110 -- Photographs of Perrin, Curie, Richardson, Crobino, Milikan, Beanland, Edison, and Steinmetz (among others); 1st International Conference on Nuclear Physics, Anglo Bavarian Society Dinner; 958:0070:0001 -- Photograph of Sir Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959); 958:0070:0003 -- Framed photograph of Professor Adolf Meyer-Albich, Hamburg, April 20, 1967; 958:0070:0004 -- Diagram of Caroline Herschel's telescope (affixed to verso: a typescript of an 1843 letter from Sir J.F.W. Herschel to Adm. W.H. Smyth); 958:0070:0005 -- Framed photograph by Sir John F. W. Herschel taken in 1839 and printed in 1890 of "The Forty-Foot Telescope at Slough"; 958:0070:0006 -- Framed photograph of Cavendish Laboratory research students, May 1902; 958:0070:0007 -- Framed photograph of Cavendish Laboratory research students, May 1901; 958:0070:0008 -- Framed photograph of Cavendish Laboratory research students, May 1905. 993:0011:0001-0002 -- Two photographs of sketches, which were made in circa 1954, of Albert Einstein; 992:0011:0003 -- Photoengraving of Gauß; 993:0011:0004 -- Photoengraving with script in Latin titled “Frater Jacobus de Beaulter”; 993:0011:0005 -- Photograph of Marie Curie; 993:0011:0006 -- Photograph of Pierre Curie; 993:0011:0007-0008 -- Photographs of Marie Curie; 993:0011:0009 --Photograph of Harvey Cushing; 993:0011:0010 -- Charles Darwin.; 993:0044:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.24) -- Photogravure of Joseph Black; 993:0047:0001-0003 (formerly Art Collection accession numbers 73.280.219A-219C) -- Three photographs of a 1944 painting of Sir William Osler, English-Canadian physician and medical educator; 993:0048:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.254) -- Photograph by unidentified photographer, likely 1895 or 1896, printed 1945. Verso reads: “Roentgen [i.e., Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen] observes the luminescent effect upon the barium-platino-cyanide screen. Victor news, Sept. 1945”; 993:0049:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.220) -- Richard Owen (short biography on verso); 993:0050:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.23) -- Photograph of an 1885 sketch of Louis Pasteur; 993:0051:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.217) --Labeled “Oersted” on verso, referring to Hans Christian Oersted, a Danish natural philosopher who discovered electromagnetic induction; 997:0005:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.271) -- J.J. Thomson; 997:0005:0002 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.270) -- J.J. Thomson; 997:0005:0003 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.294) -- Photogravure of Laennec; 997:0005:0004 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.284) -- J. W. Williams; 997:0005:0005 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.189) -- Photogravure of Kant. |
See Also: |
John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel Photography Collection: Photographs by Herschel are located in the John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel Photography Collection (PH-00075).
History of Science Collection: Related manuscript materials are located in the History of Science Collection (MS-01959).
History of Science Art Collection: Related artworks, from which 23 items of this collection were transferred, are located in the History of Science Art Collection (AR-00124).
Herschel Family Papers: Related manuscript materials by and about Herschel are located in the Herschel Family Papers (MS-01931).
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