tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72207295483649804322024-03-19T02:18:19.855-07:00Net MoleThe history science and culture blog.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-23842309820730430362009-06-22T09:20:00.000-07:002009-06-22T09:40:24.714-07:00USS New York 1917<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/08103v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 393px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 293px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/08103v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> The USS New York leading a convoy at Hampton roads</div><br />The battleship USS New York served in both World War I and World War II. The USS New York was most active during World War II, were despite her aging status, she took part in the Atlantic convoys before sailing to the pacific were she fought battles at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.<br /><br />After the war the USS New York served as a target ship for the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll were she survived two atomic blasts, before finally being sunk as an artificial reef in 1948.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-23276108441220959192009-06-18T09:58:00.000-07:002009-06-18T10:18:11.670-07:00life guards<div align="center"><a href="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb307/cdo908/life%20guards/26174v-1-1-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 351px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 265px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb307/cdo908/life%20guards/26174v-1-1-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>All Women life guard team at Venice beach, Los Angeles sometime around the 1920's.</em></span></div><br /><div align="center">The photographs are from the Bain news service and so are, most likely, reporting on some kind of news event. I am unable to find a correlating story to these images but will update if and when I can find more information.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb307/cdo908/life%20guards/26173v-1-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 351px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb307/cdo908/life%20guards/26173v-1-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"> All Women life guard team at Venice beach, Los Angeles sometime around the 1920's.<br /></span></em></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-65214350153651414742009-06-18T09:23:00.000-07:002009-06-18T09:29:00.888-07:00Preraffaelite 1900<div align="center"><a href="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb307/cdo908/Artistic%20photographs%20collected%20by%20Frances%20Benjamin/3g09067v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 370px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 498px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb307/cdo908/Artistic%20photographs%20collected%20by%20Frances%20Benjamin/3g09067v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> An unnamed young woman in period dress with headband by Emily Mew 1900.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-15183990858109169542009-06-17T13:49:00.000-07:002009-06-17T14:00:22.128-07:00Military post on Kernville Hill 1889<a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/17537v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 369px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/17537v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Image courtesy of the Library of Congress At Washington D.C.</em></span></div><div align="center"> A military post on Kernville Hill, showing the aftermath of the Johnstown Flood by Ernest Walter Histed 1889.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><strong><em>More information</em></strong></div><div align="center"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood">Johnstown Flood</a><br /></div><div align="center"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-18813372214516764612009-06-17T13:39:00.000-07:002009-06-17T13:48:55.002-07:00Night And Day 1921<div align="left">Day and night photographs of the Parker & Bridget Co. store, located at 9th St. and Market Space, Washington, D.C. taken in 1921 by the National Photo Company. The building is now demolished and the site is now home to the United States Navy Memorial.</div><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/30152v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 390px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 304px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/30152v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Parker & Bridget Co. Washington, D.C. by the National Photo Company 1921<br /><br /></span><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/30155v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 377px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/30155v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a>Parker & Bridget Co. Washington, D.C. by the National Photo Company 1921.<br /><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-64310456996225651192009-06-15T14:44:00.000-07:002009-06-15T14:48:08.926-07:00Nave To Transept 1901<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/3g02455v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 379px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 634px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/3g02455v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> View across the nave to the transept at York Minster by Frederick H Evans 1901<br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-60206588852198231652009-06-15T14:38:00.001-07:002009-06-15T14:41:31.602-07:00Freight car and grain elevators 1938<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/8b14238v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 386px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 284px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/8b14238v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><em><span style="font-size:78%;"> Image courtesy of the Library of Congress at Washington D.C. </span></em></div><div align="center">Freight car and grain elevators. Omaha, Nebraska. By John Vachon 1938.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-61038244689068511002009-06-13T08:47:00.001-07:002009-06-13T08:50:21.092-07:00Aubrey Beardsley 1895<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/3c12699v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 363px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 497px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/3c12699v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> Image courtesy of the Library Of Congress At Washington D.C.</span></div><div align="center">Aubrey Beardsley by Frederick H Evans 1895.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-29840712824276451302009-06-13T08:34:00.000-07:002009-06-13T08:43:24.641-07:00Federal camp on a beach<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/03363v-1-1-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 392px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 234px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/03363v-1-1-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Federal camp on beach, taken sometime between between 1861 and 1869 by unknown photographer.<br /></span>An army encampment on a beach taken sometime around the U.S. civil war</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-83371362948049860762009-05-14T15:14:00.000-07:002009-05-14T15:18:04.413-07:00Drydock number two 1901<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/3b21704u-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 392px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 281px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/3b21704u-1.jpg" border="0" /></a>Steamboats LOUISE and two coastal steamers in dry dock by Samuel E. Rusk 1901.<br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-30394739716044838532009-05-14T14:59:00.000-07:002009-05-14T15:09:46.961-07:00Ancient crypt 1910<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/13701v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 389px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 285px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/13701v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Image courtesy of the Library of Congress at Washington D.C. </span></em></div><div align="center">Ancient crypt cellars in Provins, France by Frederick H Evans 1910</div><div align="center"><br /> </div><div align="center"><em><strong>More Information.</strong></em></div><div align="center"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_H._Evans">Frederick H. Evans</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-33506010855075242042009-05-14T14:53:00.000-07:002009-05-14T14:58:48.593-07:00Overhanging Rock 1901<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/18940v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 392px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 295px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/18940v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a>Photograph of Overhanging Rock, Glacier Point, with views over Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California by Henry Greenwood Peabody 1901. <br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-51398994055058329162009-05-08T10:21:00.000-07:002009-05-08T10:24:42.202-07:00Nikola Tesla<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/04851v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 316px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 448px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/04851v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><em><span style="font-size:78%;"> Image courtesy of the George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). </span></em></div><div align="center">A young Nikola Tesla</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-29398375516571521272009-05-06T14:19:00.000-07:002009-05-06T14:26:24.926-07:00This cannot end well.<u><span style="color:#0066cc;"></span></u><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/23282v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 313px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 251px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/23282v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Image courtesy of the Harris and Ewing collection.</span></em></div><div align="center">Washington Redskins start training August 28 1937. </div><br /><div>The photograph is captioned: He-man exercise took the place of calisthenics today as the Redskins, Washington's entry in National Professional Football League, started training. The boys "flying thru the air" are, left to right: Millner (Notre Dame), Rentner (Northwestern) and Peterson (West Virginia).</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-74451144325396855732009-05-06T13:56:00.000-07:002009-05-06T14:12:32.082-07:00Billie Burke<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/15826v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 336px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 448px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/15826v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><em> Image courtesy of the Harris & Ewing Collection</em></span></div><div align="center">Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke, American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her portrayal of Glinda the good witch in the film The wizard of Oz, taken sometime around 1910.</div><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"><em><strong>More Information<br /></strong></em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Burke">Billie Burke</a></div><div align="center"> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000992/">I.M.D.B Profile</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-54237075578318606952009-05-06T13:34:00.000-07:002009-05-06T13:36:51.490-07:00Sorting the mail<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/15269v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 344px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 252px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/15269v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> United States Post Office sorting office circa 1920.<br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-28763669721235863262009-05-05T09:32:00.000-07:002009-05-05T09:47:34.274-07:00Claude Graham White flying his Farman biplane along W. Executive Ave 1910.<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/3a13302u.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 324px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 265px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/3a13302u.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Publicity photograph of Claude Graham White flying his Farman biplane along W. Executive Ave., Washington, D.C. before landing close to the White House 1910. </span></div><p><br />Claude Graham White was the first person to make a night flight during a Daily Mail sponsored London to Manchester race in 1910. He is most noted however for achievements in the commercialisation of aeronautics. He was also involved in promoting the military application of air power before the first world war and was one of the first people to experiment with fitting weapons to an aircraft. </p><p align="center"><br /><em><strong>More</strong> <strong>Information</strong>.</em></p><p align="center"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Graham_White">Claude Grahame White</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-13743405706961476712009-05-05T09:20:00.000-07:002009-05-05T09:31:09.231-07:00Count Leo Tolstoy<a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/01552v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 347px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 554px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/01552v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Image courtesy of the George Kennan Papers collection at the Library of Congress at Washington D.C.</em></span></div>Photo card of Count Leo Tolstoy, half-length portrait, by Sass of Moscow, taken sometime between 1880 and 1886.<br /><br /><div align="center"><em><strong>More Information</strong></em></div><div align="center"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Leo_Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/t#a136">Selected works on Project Gutenberg</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-87761849314706946542009-05-04T07:20:00.000-07:002009-05-04T07:26:25.833-07:00Two kinds of ambulances 1936.<a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/21892v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 357px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 270px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/21892v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a>1936 Publicity shot for the United States Coast Guard. The automobile and the airplane ambulances of the Coast Guard at Cape May station stand side-by-side awaiting a call to help injured or sick persons at sea, beyond the reach of usual medical aid. 1936 <div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-72532676443369628922009-05-01T07:16:00.000-07:002009-05-01T07:20:12.865-07:00Naval Observatory<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/00094v-1-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 385px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 273px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/00094v-1-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Image courtesy of the National Photo Company. </span></div><div align="center">The U.S. Naval Observatory circa 1919.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-33396582324302505962009-04-30T10:26:00.000-07:002009-04-30T10:31:53.779-07:00The X-Ray room<a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/33328v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 337px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 284px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/33328v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Image courtesy of the National Photo Company</span></div><div align="center">The X-Ray room at the Washington Sanitarium, Takoma Park, Maryland, sometime between 1918-28.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-68957803424462072402009-04-30T09:19:00.000-07:002009-04-30T09:35:29.911-07:00Christening of the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) 1924.<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/26469v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 384px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 195px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/26469v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><em><span style="font-size:78%;"> Image courtesy of the National Photo Company<br /></span></em><br /><div align="left">The christening of the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C, on the 25th November 1924. Built for the US navy by the Zeppelin factory it served as an experimental, observational and training facility for the navy, eventually logging 172,400 nautical miles of travel. The longest serving of all the airships commissioned by the US navy it was finally decommissioned in 1939.</div><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="center"><em><strong>More Information.</strong></em></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Los_Angeles_(ZR-3)">USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)</a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-55307175244081974392009-04-30T09:08:00.000-07:002009-04-30T09:15:37.282-07:00U.S.S. Tallahassee 1916<a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/32703v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 393px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/32703v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Image courtesy of the National Photo Company.</span></div><div align="center">The Arkansas class monitor U.S.S. Tallahassee, alongside U.S. Submarines K-6 & K-5, Hampton Roads, Virginia 1916.<br /></div><br /><div align="center"><em><strong>More Information.</strong></em></div><div align="center"><strong><em></em></strong></div><div align="center"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Florida_(BM-9)">U.S.S. Tallahassee</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-24889807977895548772009-04-29T14:05:00.000-07:002009-04-29T14:12:15.207-07:00Lake Hopatcong 1910<div align="center"><a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/19079v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 286px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/19079v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> A postcard proof for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Hopatcong">Lake Hopatcong</a>, New Jersey, showing the Yacht Club dock, published by W J Harris 1910.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220729548364980432.post-89356728600615665422009-04-28T13:07:00.000-07:002009-04-28T13:37:30.102-07:00Bernetta Adams Miller<a href="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/01548v-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 381px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 183px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp131/netmole/01548v-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Image courtesy of the Bain Newspaper Service Collection at the Library Of Congress at Washington D.C.</span></div>Bernetta Adams Miller (1884-1972), pioneering aviatrix, flying the Moisant-Blériot monoplane from the Moisant Aviation School in Mineola, Long Island sometime around 1912. Test pilot for the Moisant Aviation School, she served on the front in World War I as a volunteer for the Women's Overseas Service League Infantry Division and then the YMCA were she delivered food to the troops, frequently under fire.<br />She was wounded at least once, but remained at the front through the Argonne offensive and to the end of the war. In 1919 she was awarded the Croix De Guerre by the French government.<br />From 1941 to 1948 she worked at the The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Her duties, as first secretary to the director of the Institute, meant she was responsible for keeping visitors from disturbing Albert Einstein.<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><em>More Information.</em></strong></div><p align="center"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernetta_Adams_Miller">Bernetta Adams Miller</a></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/miller_b.html">More Pictures</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0