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Date 12/5/13 in upper left. Rudolf Hober? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_H%c3%b6ber

Wow - you have very sharp eyes! Thanks for sending the date and first name. We'll add them to the catalog record when we update.

This is NOT Rudolf Hoeber the physiologist (name originally spelled with an umlaut over the "o"). The image on the Wikipedia page is wrong, probably picked up erroneously from this LOC site. I know because Rudolf was my grandfather and I knew him when I was a child and have many pictures of him, none of which resemble this one. I have no idea who the man in this picture is, but it is not my grandfather.

The Rudolf Hober entry in Wikipedia has now been corrected by removing the image shown here and replacing it with an image of the real Rudolf Hoeber.

LOC, you should revise caption to reflect that the wrong Rudolf Hober was originally identified.

That is sweet! Nice to know people had senses of humor back then--even if it's a little twisted. ;)

how was this done?

It was probably a re-photographed photo-collage with color (ink or paint) added by hand.

amazing!!!!!

Im impressed! Nice idea,it looks good...

I am the editor for a blog run by non-profit Feminist Press called UnderTheMicroscope.com. We publish stories and blogs designed to motivate girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math field.s I used this wonderful photo in a blog post today about how science careers are the "top paying" jobs for women: www.underthemicroscope.com/.

Thank you for the beautiful photos, Smithsonian, of women in science from the '40s, '50s and '60s!

--Joanne Hinkel

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Heroines, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Dr. Crawford (1923-1997) was a world-renowned immunohematologist who participated in groundbreaking work on blood groups. She was the recognized expert on the Lu (Lutheran) blood group.

While she did not herself discover the Lutheran blood group, she did discover (in 1961, not 1962) the very rare Lu(a-b-) phenotype in her own blood. For many years, only one person outside the Crawford family - the patient in Great Britain - was known to carry this phenotype.

A note regarding blood groups: Blood groups are often confused with blood types. Blood types are genetic expressions within blood groups. All people carry all blood groups but their phenotypes ("blood types") within those groups will differ and may even be unique for a given individual.

The best-known blood groups are ABO and Rh; others include (but are not limited to) Lu (Lutheran), K (Kell), Le (Lewis), Fy (Duffy) and Jk (Kidd).

An excellent treatise on this subject is Blood Groups in Man by Race & Sanger, in which Dr. Crawford's work is mentioned.

Hi acrawfordiii,

Thanks for sharing more information about Dr. Crawford with our community!

Susannah