Carl Mydans, Farm Security Administration - the New Deal, Library of Congress, 1935
Farm Security Administration (FSA) was an effort during the Great Depression to combat American rural poverty. The FSA stressed "rural rehabilitation"…
Tags: Anti-Poverty, Farm Security Administration, FDR, FSA, Great Depression, Rural Poverty
Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklyn as Scientist and Innovator, Library of Congress, 1776 - first photo, 1744 - second photo
Benjamin Franklin is considered an American patriot and founding father, but his careers and influence took him much further. As a "man of science"…
Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Electricity, Fireplace, Glasses, Inventions, Science
Nobel Foundation, ABO blood group system, Nobel Foundation, 1930s - first photo, August 25 2006 - second photo
The ABO blood group system is the most important blood type system (or blood group system) in human blood transfusion. It is widely credited to have…
Tags: ABO Blood Group System, Blood, Blood Type, Karl Landsteiner, Red Blood Cells, Transfusion Medicine
Imperial War Museum, Penicillin, Imperial War Museum, Between 1939 and 1945 - first photo, July 20 2009 - second photo
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Tags: Antibiotics, Diseases, Penicillin, Science, Syphilis, World War II
Columbia University, Finding a Cure for Huntington's Disease, Columbia University, None
For her groundbreaking work in the scientific and public arenas towards finding a cure for Huntington's disease and for increasing awareness of all…
Tags: Diseases, Genetics, Huntington's Disease, Nancy Wexler, Science
Caroline Miles, Eileen Collins
On February 4th, 1995 at 12:22 a.m, Eileen Collins was about to be launched into space. With the takeoff of the STS-63 space shuttle, Collins would…
Tags: Air Force, Eileen Collins, NASA, Shuttle Pilot, Space, USAA
Albert Gustaf Aristedes Edelfelt, Louis Pasteur, Discoverer of Lifesaving Vaccines, Albert Gustaf Aristedes Edelfelt, 1885
Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first…
Tags: Anthrax, Diseases, Germ Theory, Louis Pasteur, Puerperal Fever, Rabies, Vaccines
Photographer Arthur Rothstein 1915-1985, Botanist and Inventor George Washington Carver 1864-1943, Library of Congress, 1942
American Botanist and Inventor. Dr. George Washington Carver was born in Diamond Grove, Missouri, around 1864. He is one of the United States' most…
Tags: African-Americans, Agriculturel, Alabama, Botany, Farming, George Washington Carver, Peanuts, Scientists
Horst Schreck, Veterinary Corp U.S. Army, Library of Congress, 1919
The Veterinary Corps, U.S. Army, taught men care and treatment of sick animals; horse judging and soundness; horseshoeing; riding; driving; meat and…
Tags: Animals, Horse Riding, Horses, U.S. Army, Veterinary Corps
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Inspecting a Candy Factory, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1911
John Earnshaw, an early food and drug inspector working in and around Baltimore, inspects a clean and sanitary candy factory around 1911/12. Candy in…
Tags: Candy, FDA, Inspection, Science, Women, Workers
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