Girls measuring piece of ground in arithmetic class at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
Library of Congress
[1899 or 1900]
No known restrictions
image/tiff
English
Image
Interview with Miss Mary Jane Wilson
Hampton University
Interview with Miss Mary Jane Wilson who graduated from the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1874.
Works Project Administration and the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division.
WPA Slave Narrative Project, Virginia Narratives, Volume 17. Library of Congress.
Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division.
04/14/1937
Interviewer: Thelma Dunston
2 type-written pages, scanned into PDF-format.
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson
NACA Human Computer
Worked at NACA and NASA with tracking teams of manned and unmanned orbital missions. Notable calculations included trajectory for Alan Shepard‘s 1959 flight; Verification calculations made for John Glenn's 1962 orbit; and calculations for the 1969 Apollo 11 trajectory to the Moon.
NASA Cultural Resources (CRGIS)
Launching of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission.
NASA, African-American Human-Computers, Space Flight
Launching of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission -- the first U.S. manned spaceflight. The Mercury-Redstone 3 was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard.
NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
5 May 1961
Letter Congratulating Miriam D. Mann On Twenty Years of Service
Letter signed by NASA director Floyd L. Thompson congratulating Miriam D. Mann on 20 years of Federal Government service. The letter is dated April 1, 1963 and describes the award Mrs. Mann would receive at the ceremony in October 1963.
NASA
DeWitt Wallace Library at Macalester College
1963-04-01
Thompson, Floyd
No Known Rights Restrictions
text/Letter
English
Text
1383724_10202610791611291_1794926391_n
Map, Chesterville Plantation
Survey map of Chesterville Plantation in Virginia, 1951
Survey map of Chesterville Plantation in Virginia, 1951.
NASA Cultural Resources
<a title="NASA Cultural Resources" href="http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">NASA Cultural Resources</a>, <a title="NASA Cultural Resources, Chesterville Plantation" href="http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/Chesterville_Plantation_Site" target="_blank">Chesterville Plantation</a>
NASA Cultural Resources
1951
Used with permission from <a title="NASA Cultural Resources" href="http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">NASA Cultural Resources</a>
JPEG
English
Map
Mary Smith Peake
Peake;
Photograph of Mary Smith Peake, teacher.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Mary_Smith_Peake.jpg
Public Domain, no restrictions on use
image/jpeg
English
Image
Mary Winston Jackson, 1921-2005
NASA Human Computers
Mary Winston Jackson worked as a mathematician, called human computer, at NACA and later NASA from 1950-1985.
NASA
Miriam D. Mann
Photograph of Miriam D. Mann
Unknown photographer
DeWitt Wallace Library at Macalester College
~1950s
Copyright held by Duchess Harris (family of Miriam D. Mann)
image/jpec
English
Image
President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt signing a declaration.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96522303/
Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96522303/
Dec. 11, 1941
Photograph