I’ve been browsing the Digital Public Library of America’s Women in Science Collection and found this interesting photo titled, Chemistry class – women’s from the Atlanta University, Robert Woodruff Library. The description says that these are unidentified students in a chemistry class. I think it would be a great prompt for students to learn more about science education for both women and African American women in particular. The date range is 1862 – 1923. Who are these students? Where might be they be studying chemistry?

This is an interactive postcard, also known as a slide show…

The conference finally got the best of me and I fell asleep before creating my postcard. So, here are two, both celebrating Pi Day in a different way.

I search the Digital Public Library for “pie” and found this wonderful costume design called Pineapple Pie:

And this lithograph of pi is part of a set of greek letters that are associated with two names: Ovide Reynard and Jean Jacques Theodore Sauve. I couldn’t find any real information about either of them and I thought this might be an interesting way to challenge students to do research, maybe as an engaging starter for a unit:

I am at a conference so putting postcards together fairly quickly. I love this Rembrandt print and thought of Virginia Woolf’s lovely ode to readers: