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4 Pi Beta Counter
No full textThis pillbox design of 4-pi proportional flow radioactivity counter was designed and tested by Howard H. Seliger and Lucy M. Cavallo of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in 1951, following a suggestion by C. J. Borkowski of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, made in June 1949 at a meeting of the Subcommittee on Beta and Gamma Ray Measurements and Standards of the Committee on Nuclear Science of the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council. The radioactivity counter design consisted of two 2-pi counters mounted face to face, separated by a thin stainless steel diaphragm with peripheral holes for the passage of the methane counter gas. The tubes in the upper half of the device served as inlets for the gas, which was withdrawn from the bottom of the device. During operation of the counter, a thin deposit of source material was mounted on a Formvar-polystyrene film, which was cemented over a 2-cm hole in the central diaphragm. Operation was in the region of limited proportionality where the gas gain and the electronic gain were about 10^4 and 5 x 10^3, respectively. The pillbox radioactivity counter made possible the high-efficiency counting of beta particles from radioactive materials with activities as low as 10 nuclear transitions per second. The device was durable, easily decontaminated, and proved to be stable over long periods of time. It was used to calibrate sources of 14^C, 22^Na, 24^Na, 35^S, 60^Co, 90^Sr+90^Y, and 198^Au. After some years of use, the pillbox design was superseded first by a 4-pi proportional flow counter with a cylindrical form, and later by a counter with a spherical form.[H] 12 cm [Diam] 16 cm [L] 31 c
H. Harry Riley, Jr. signing his book
No full textElk Compliment; To A Great Author and Personality; H. Harry Rileyhttps://dh.howard.edu/ebhend_bsp/1091/thumbnail.jp
MOORLAND, JESSE EDWARD
Get PDFAuthor: Moorland, Jesse Edward, 1863-1940 (See Finding Aid)
Title: Papers, 1790-1940 Description: 40 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American executive of the YMCA, trustee of Howard University, minister, and collector of books relating to Afro-Americans. Family and personal papers; general correspondence; speeches; photographs; and correspondence, clippings, printed materials, reports, and minutes relating to various organizations with which Moorland was affiliated, particularly the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Howard University, the Moorland Foundation, the Nazarene Congregation Church in Brooklyn, NY, the United War Work Campaign, the YMCA, the YMCA Colored Men\u27s Department, the YMCA International Committee, and the YMCA National Council. Correspondents include Albert Cassell, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Stanley Durkee, William Leo Hansberry, William Alphaeus Hunton, James Weldon Johnson, Mordecai W. Johnson, Alain Locke, Kelly Miller, George Foster Peabody, Jean Toomer, Booker T. Washington, Charles H. Wesley, Carter Godwin Woodson, and Max Yergan. Gift of Jesse Edward Moorland, 1941.
Subjects: Afro-American academic libraries -- Washington (DC) Afro-American executives -- Washington (DC). lcsh Afro-Americans -- Societies, etc. Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. Cassell, Albert Irvin, 1895-1969, correspondent. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, as correspondent. Durkee, J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1866-1951, as correspondent. Hansberry, William Leo, correspondent. Howard University. Moorland Foundation. Hunton, Alphaeus, 1903-1970, as correspondent. Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, as correspondent. Johnson, Mordecai W. (Mordecai Wyatt), 1890-1976, as correspondent. Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954, as correspondent. Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939, as correspondent. National Council of the Young Men\u27s Christian Associations of the United States of America. Nazarene Congregation Church (Brooklyn, New York, NY) Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938, as correspondent. Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967, as correspondent. United War Work Campaign. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, as correspondent. Wesley, Charles H. (Charles Harris), 1891-1987, as correspondent. Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950, as correspondent. World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Young Men\u27s Christian associations. Young Men\u27s Christian associations -- United States. Yergan, Max, 1894-1975, as correspondent. YMCA of the USA. YMCA of the USA. Colored Men\u27s Dept. YMCA of the USA. International Committee. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.80 NUCMC #: DCLV96-A74
TERRELL, Mary Church
Get PDFTitle: Papers, 1888-1976 Description: 17 linear ft.
Notes: Lecturer, author, civil rights activist. Correspondence, clippings, newspaper articles, pamphlets, broadsides, and other printed matter, and other papers chiefly relating to the National Association of Colored Women, of which Mrs. Terrell was first national president. Documents Terrell\u27s work on behalf of women\u27s rights, and against racial discrimination. Consists of her writings about peace, women\u27s rights, black history. Also includes drafts of her autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World, and Phyllis Wheatley: A Pageant. Contains numerous material relating to the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Contains family papers of R. R. Church, Mrs. Terrell\u27s husband, District of Columbia Municipal Court Judge Robert H. Terrell, and Phyllis Terrell. Also includes seven diaries, copies of minutes (1935-36) of the Race Relations Federation of Churches, and letters addressed to Olivia Davidson Washington (Mrs. Booker T. Washington) concerning the International Council of the Women of the Darker Races. Gift, 1958.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.112; 4.72.148 NUCMC #: MS 62-387
SPINGARN, Joel
Get PDFTitle: Papers Description: 4 linear ft.
Notes: Scholar, author, publisher, literary critic, philanthropist, and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Correspondence; bills, lists, reports, pictures and other material on the Amenia Conference, the military training camp for black officers in Des Moines, Iowa; NAACP papers; constitution, declaration, and other papers of the Niagara Movement; family correspondence; newspaper clippings; and an autograph album. The material is related to the library\u27s Arthur Spingarn collection. Card index in the library. Gift, 1957.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of black African ancestry); Amenia Conferences Amenia Conferences Armed Forces; Afro-Americans Autograph collections; Albums and books Blacks; Organizations and societies Camps (military); Iowa Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt Fort Des Moines, Iowa Frazier, E. Franklin Gompers, Samuel L. Grimké, Archibald H. Hughes, Langston Johnson, James Weldon Labor leaders; Gompers, Samuel L. Mays, Benjamin McKay, Claude Miller, Kelly Moton, Robert Russa National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; history National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Spingarn, Joel E., chairman of the board Niagara Movement Peterkin, Julia (Wood) Scott, Emmett Spingarn family Terrell, Mary Church
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.105 NUCMC #: MS 62-428
The poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
No full text"London: printed by C. Whittingham, Tooks Court" -- Colophon."Memoir of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey," p. [xi]-lxxix.Portrait of author, frontispiece, by H. Robinson.Title vignette.Mode of access: Internet.SPEC: In original purple cloth; title label on spine. Covers worn. Signature on front fly-leaf: "J. McClennen, 1941
GRIMKE, Archibald
Get PDFThe Archibald H. Grimke Papers contain materials that reflect his career as a lawyer, editor, author, lecturer, politician and diplomat. These papers include early correspondence with members of the Grimke-Weld and Grimke-Stanley families, other personal, general and organizational correspondence, legal files, Santo Domingo records (which contain official documents regarding his United States Consulship from 1894 to 1898), financial records, manuscripts, articles, addresses, newspaper clippings, photographs memorabilia, artifacts, and bound publications
The modernist angel: Art at the Limits of the Human in D. H. Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy
No full textPhDThe subject of this thesis is a figure that might provisionally be called the *modemist
angel'. Focusing on modernist literature, and more particularly on the work of D. H.
Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy, it aims to isolate from the many angels found in all periods
and all types of art a historically specific and intellectually coherent paradigm: an angel of
and for its modernist times. A figure of precisely this type could be said to exist in the
form of Walter Benjamin's 'angel of history'. Critics who address the question of the
modern angel in texts by Franz Kafka and Rainer Maria Rilke often do so in conjunction
with the problem posed by the angel of history. Beginning with a chapter on Benjamin,
this thesis nevertheless follows a different trajectory. Over five chapters, it explores a
modernist landscape formed not only by Lawrence, H. D. and Loy, but also by European
and American writers such as A. R. Orage, Allen Upward, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although the
angel that emerges from this investigation might, in some respects, be said to anticipate
Benjamin's later version, this figure is also very different, standing for a project that is
distinctively, and recognisably, modernist in nature. He/she (the sex of the modernist
angel is often open to question) represents an attempt to reconcile the divine
responsibilities of the artist with the material and gendered conditions of being,
specifically of being human, in the modem world. This thesis looks again at the clash of
intellectual paradigms in the early-twentieth century - notably, the confrontation of the
Romantic view of art as a superhuman or sacred undertaking with the psychoanalytical or
evolutionary idea that all human endeavour is underpinned by sub-human motives - and
suggests the angel as a new and instructive figure through which to think the perilous
limits between the human and the divine in modernist literature
Book and Author Luncheon
No full text(Left) Mrs. Ellen Bowie Holland author of Gay as a Grig ; Dr. Charles P. Johnson author of J. Howard Williams: prophet of God and Fiend of man with joint author H. C. Brown Jr. and T. B. Maston; and Mrs. Lowell Gregory autograph copies of their books during the annual Book and Author Luncheon. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Morning April 16, 1964.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1960s/5637/thumbnail.jp
A new era of thought /
No full text"The MSS. which formed the basis of this book were committed to us by the author ... It was his wish that we should construct upon them a much more complete treatise than we have effected ... Part I [has been printed] almost exactly as it came from his hands ... Part II has been written from a hurried sketch ... Chapter XI of this part [and Appendix E have] been entirely re-written by us ... Appendix H, and all the exercises have ... been written solely by us." From the Preface signed: Alicia Boole, H. John Falk.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn2321978
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