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Photograph of Rosa Ponselle as La Gioconda standing in beaded gown and head wrap with arms spread out against the wall.

Photograph of Rosa Ponselle in crown and long velvet cape . Press release on back stating she will be "guest soloist on second of the weekly half hour programs sponsored by the Simmons Company over WABC". Stamped "Ref. Dept. Mar 31 1931 N.E.A."

Photograph of Rosa Ponselle in "Ernani" on stairs. Back stamped "photo. By Bain News Service."

Photograph of Rosa Ponselle as Elizabetta in "Don Carlo" in ornate gown with crown band and heavy make up. Back stamped with "Culver Pictures, Inc. and handwritten "Ponselle as Elizabetta in Don Carlo"

Photograph of Rosa Ponselle in Don Giovanni costume. Back stamped "Rosa Ponselle in DonGiovanni" with "From the Metropolitan Musical Bureau 38 W. 42nd St., New York City" scratched out, also stamped "Management Libbie Miller, 113, West 57th Street,…

While female nurses dominated the Mercy Ship expedition, it carried a small number of surgeons too. Seven of them hailed from Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine. They are pictured here in a photo from the voyage. M.H. Todd was an…

There had been other fraternities which had accepted Jews--notably the honor societies (e.g., Phi Beta Kappa) and Phi Alpha. The latter was a fraternity which was often grouped with the honorary and professional fraternities, but some accounts speak…

Phi Alpha was perhaps the first Jewish-inclusive social fraternity