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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Senta's Sextant: 1942
September 1942. "Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
Still used today!
I still regularly use the sextant at work, and it is still required knowledge to become a U.S. Merchant Marine officer with an oceans endorsement! Very cool!
Senta ...
... is also my Oma's (grandmother's) name! I never heard of anyone else with that name. Always figured it was just a German thing.
Neat blog!
Senta's dress
Her dress is adorable. I doubt if any high-school girls today would be willing to wear something with an eyelet lace collar, rickrack trim and ribbons, though.
Beauty and Brains!
What a lovely woman! I do hope she aged gracefully.
Clearly she liked science
I Googled her name -- she later published a paper with the American Chemical Society:
Conductimetric and Potentiometric Studies of the Stoichiometry and Equilibria of the Boric Acid--Mannitol Complexes -- Alfred Deutsch and Senta Osoling
pp 1637 - 1640; DOI: 10.1021/ja01173a028
Young and Healthy
It's a completely irrelevant and juvenile comment, but what a babe!! She maketh glad the heart of Man.
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