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56 photos and 7 illustrations tagged navigation, from 15 members of Flickr Commons.

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• finland
• sls
• seamark
• unknownplaces
• sjömärken
• svenskalitteratursällskapetifinland
• okändaplatser
• worldwartwo
• b29
• jameswilliams
• convair
• t29d
• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• military
• stations
• publicdomain
• sextant
• map
• wwii
• worldwarii
• ww2
• naval
• bldigital

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• SDASM Archives 20 photos & illustrations
• The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland 16 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 6 photos & illustrations
• British Library 4 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 3 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 3 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• The National Archives UK 1 photo / illustration

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St Mary's Island 1972

from North East Museums

• Kathryn said:

  I went on school trip there in the 1980s!

Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude (LOC

from The Library of Congress

• minions & myrmidons said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Face Time, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

• tacit rabbits said:

  unique capture

• Micronetal said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called La Mar de Flickr, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort (LO

from The Library of Congress

• 4 older comments, and then…
• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Unless there was another Senta Osoling in Los Angeles in the 1940s, this young woman went on to co-author a scientific paper: Alfred Deutsch and Senta Osoling, "Conductimetric and Potentiometric Studies of the Stoichiometry and Equilibria of Boric Acid-Mannitol Complexes," Journal of the American Chemical Society 71(5)( May 1949): 1637-1940. Alfred Deutsch was in the Chemistry Department at UCLA when the paper was published. Osoling was given no affiliation.

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thanks! For now, we’re gathering the suggestions and corrections, but holding off on making changes until more comments come in.

• whatmarcsees said:

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

• robertvaldivia said:

  Check my photo notes above for updated info on Senta. She's had quite a life!

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Awesome, Robert, thanks! I love knowing what she's doing now.