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Time Magazine November 9, 1931 with Rosa Ponselle on color cover as Violetta holding rose. Painting by Chandler Ross.

Photograph of Rosa Ponselle on her 81st birthday with Romano Romani (Junior), Kira Baklanova, Lili Chookasian, Bette Hankin, Phyllis Frankil, and Licia Albanese. Photograph by William H. Mortimer. Reverse includes short clipping about her birthday…

Photograph of Rosa Ponselle with Joan Crawford in hats looking at a score in approximately 1936. Back stamped with "Culver Pictures, Inc." and "Management Libbie Miller" handwritten "Rosa Ponselle and Joan Crawford at the studio" and "Property of…

Article in Musical America, January 10, 1936 with photograph of Rosa Ponselle as Carmen, written by "Mephisto."

Brochure for Rosa Ponselle in Carmen with the Met in Baltimore, April 4, 1936. brochures for April 2 - 4, 1936 productions. Cast includes Burke, Votipka, Oelheim, Maison, Pinza, Bada and is conducted by Hasselmans.

Program for Rosa Ponselle in La Traviata with the Met in Baltimore, April 18, 1931. Autographed by Rosa Ponselle and Lawrence Tibbett. Cast includes Egener, Falco, Lauri-Volpi, Tibbett, Bada, conducted by Serafin. Note about Met in Baltimore. And…

Pediatric Cardiologist Helen Taussig, along with Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock, pioneered the first surgical operation to treat tetralogy of fallot, a congenital heart defect commonly called "blue baby syndrome", due to the characteristic blue…

A replica of a wallet fashioned out of tin containing “Freedom Papers.”

It belonged to Joseph Trammell, a free Black man who lived in the state of Virginia in 1852. Trammel’s papers guarded him against becoming someone’s property but did not…