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18 photos and 2 illustrations tagged sextant, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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• lucillethomas
• thomas
• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• astrodome
• convairt29
• t29
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• losangeles
• war
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• unitedstatesofamerica
• wwii

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• SDASM Archives 11 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 5 photos & illustrations
• British Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Preus museum 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration

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Russell H. Millward (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• aware health said:

  Russell Hastings Millward, author and explorer. Sort of an Indiana Jones, apparently...

• Wystan said:

  Another Bain/LOC portrait of Millward:

• Ceaseless Reward said:

  A couper le souffle !
  
  

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.

robert kemp collection image Lucille Thomas

from SDASM Archives

• TVL1970 said:

  Identity of the model is revealed elsewhere in the SDASM collection, Miss Lucille Thomas.