Powder folder. Metal powder paper folder in a "wing" shape; pedestal base holds two curved, slightly convex metal pieces angled away from each other at roughly 45 degrees each; a winged screw adjusts the metal pieces closer and farther away from each other. Powder folders were used by pharmacists for packaging individual powders in paper that we...
Created:
1870 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Powder folder. Metal powder paper folder in a "wing" shape; pedestal base holds two flat, adjustable metal pieces; a winged screw adjusts the metal pieces closer and farther away from each other. Powder folders were used by pharmacists for packaging individual powders in paper that were folded to the same length and could fit into a chosen box s...
Created:
1870 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Portrait of Winifred Colton, the first woman professional on the national YMCA staff. Colton was Secretary for Programs with Women and Girls (1957-1970) and Director of the YMCA National Family Communications Skills Center (1970-1979).
Created:
1960 - 1975
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Fifteen girls and boys who won the track competitions at the First National Leaders' Training Conference held in Mexico City, March 30, 31 and April 1, 1961. The youth wear shirts with YMCA logos. The conference delegates came from the three Mexican YMCA associations of Torreon, Chihuahua and Mexico.
Created:
1961
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Obstetrical forceps. Steel body; curved, fenestrated blades with upward pelvic tilt; straight, overlapping shank; lateral screw lock; steel handles with an outward curve at top and an inward curve to touch at softly hooked ends.
Created:
1870?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Edith Marofsky and niece Beattie Marofsky at the Winter Carnival in Como Park in St. Paul. Edith is wearing a drum & bugle corps uniform manufactured by H. Harris Co., one of several Jewish-owned clothing manufacturing businesses in St. Paul.
Created:
1941
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
