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• columbia
• newyorkcity
• lowlibrary
• academia
• woman
• smithsonianinstitution
• smithsonianinstitutionarchives
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• physics
• 2012
• atomicbomb
• chineseamerican
• manhattanproject
• womenshistorymonth
• womeninscience
• chienshiungwu
• 20thcenturymid
• newyork

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• The Library of Congress 46 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 7 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 2 photos & illustrations
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• Mennonite Church USA Archives 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• Cornell University Library 1 photo / illustration

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Freshman b.b. [baseball] team, Columbia [University, New York] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Seuss. said:

  Among the Class of 1911 Baseball players in 1908 were
  
  A.M. (Arnold) Schmidt - Second Base
  J.G. (Julian George) Guiteras - Center Field
  W.C. (William Caspar) Dorr - Shortstop
  W.C. (William Creevy) Thompson - Catcher
  D.V. (Donald Vaughn) Lowe - Left Field
  W.H. (William Henry) Hastings - Third Base
  S.H. (Sterry Hunt) Childs - Pitcher
  R.S. (Robert Seton) Egan - Right Field
  C.J. Nathan - First Base
  S. (Samuel Anderson) McKeown (manager)
  G.L. Lommel (Captain)
  
  also occasionally appearing - R.R. Claiborne, W.M Lee, J.W. Hill, W.C. Thompson, B.E. Whitlock and J.R. Capablanca
  
  
  I'm fascinated to know that one of these men went on to become the cinematographer for Plan 9 Outer Space

left to right: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997) and Dr. Brode

from Smithsonian Institution

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Certainly looks like Wallace Reed Brode (1900-1974): www.addoway.com/viewad/Saturday-Review-Mar-1-1958-Dr-Wall... www.astronautix.com/astros/brode.htm

• Orbitallens said:

  Great history there!

• Smithsonian Institution said:

  pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) I think you're right, Penny! Quite a likeness. Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

E. Root (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

  Elihu Root See also www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/24348575174/

• B-59 said:

  On October 1, 1918, Elihu Root delivered a speech at Columbia University, s. article in the New-York tribune., October 02, 1918, Page 7, col. 1, "150,000 Take Soldier Oath At Colleges" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-10-02/ed-...

• Richard Norton said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Root

• Lara S said:

  Thanks B-59 and Richard Norton for identifying Root's full name. We will add this to the record.