Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
On the blackboard is the organization for one of the laboratory periods. The cut and formed parts are on the table for inspection before assembling begins. Two cadettes are standing to the left of the blackboard and two are seated on a table to the...
Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
Betty Belle Gardner (Parsons, Kansas) is getting an advance taste of work in the wind tunnel in the Aeronautical Laboratory. She is about to replace a wing section in the mouth of the tunnel with a model transport plane.
Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
Betty Cue, a stenographer at the Memorial Union, is seated showing a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk model plane to a cadette who is sitting on the floor in front of a fireplace. The plane has a wood framework with a paper exterior with a wind up, rubber-band...
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943; Budd, Lancaster Joseph, 1870-1940.
Budd family portrait with Joseph Lancaster Budd and Sarah Breed Budd with their children, Etta May and Allen Joseph. It was at Etta May Budd's urging that George Washington Carver transfer to Iowa State from Simpson College to study agriculture. ...
Curtiss-Wright Corporation -- History ; Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes Program (Iowa State University) ; Women engineering students -- Iowa -- Ames ; Women engineers ; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Iowa
Gives an overview of the engineering training, classes and social life that 90 female students experienced at Iowa State College in preparation for employment during World War II at the Curtiss-Wright plant in St. Louis. Videodisc transfer from an...
Curtiss-Wright Corporation -- History ; Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes Program (Iowa State University) ; Women engineering students -- Iowa -- Ames ; Women engineers ; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Iowa
Gives an overview of the engineering training, classes and social life that 90 female students experienced at Iowa State College in preparation for employment during World War II at the Curtiss-Wright plant in St. Louis. Videodisc transfer from an...
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943; Stanton, Edgar W., 1850-1920.
Portrait of Edgar W. Stanton . George Washington Carver’s professor in plane geometry. Edgar W. Stanton served Iowa State continuously from his graduation in 1872 until his death in 1920. He was made Head of the Mathematics Department in 1874,...
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943; Farmer's Institute
George W. Carver's first faculty & Farmer's Institute at Tuskegee Institute (Carver is top, far left.) Received from George Washington Carver. "My First Faculty and Farmer's Institute at Tuskegee, Inst. Ala. Geo. W. Carver" Neg # 02363C
Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
Four cadettes surround a workbench displaying the Guerin (rubber) embossing die, cupping die, dimpling die, drill jigs, templates, soldering jigs, forming blocks and standard hand tools.
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943; Petersen, Christian, 1885-1961.
Statue of George Washington Carver by Christian Petersen, sculptor-in-residence in the late 1940's. Originally a plaster sculpture, it was given to the University and placed in Carver Hall at the dedication of the hall in 1970 by the Class of 1968....
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943; Petersen, Christian, 1885-1961.
Statue of George Washington Carver by Christian Petersen, sculptor-in-residence in the late 1940's. Originally a plaster sculpture, it was given to the University and placed in Carver Hall at the dedication of the hall in 1970 by the Class of 1968....
George W. Carver I.A.C. Class '94. Taken in 1893. Graduation picture, which appeared in the 1894 Bomb [published in1893], on page facing page 34. Neg # 02364C [same picture appears in the faculty section of the 1896 Bomb, when he was Assistant...
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943; Wallace, Henry A., 1888-1965.
Graduation portrait of Henry A. Wallace. Son of Henry C. Wallace and friend of George Washington Carver. Wallace remembered Carver with appreciation: "Because of his friendship with my father and perhaps his interest in children George Carver...
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943; Wallace, Henry C.
Portrait of Henry C. Wallace. One of George Washington Carver’s professors. Henry C. Wallace graduated in 1892 from Iowa State, a degree that was begun in 1885 and then interrupted by a career in farming. He was hired as an Assistant Professor...
