Thursday, April 13, 2023

the joy of chemistry

Every picture tells a story, season 2, picture 31:

We met Hanna, the university friend of science students Ruth and Richard in the first series. Back then I said I wasn't sure what subject she was studying, but here she is clearly enjoying some rather elaborate chemical experiment:

and then getting on with the work:

Photos taken by Richard Groß at the University of Bonn, between 1929 and 1933.

I do love these photos but I am troubled by the fact that people didn't seem to be using any eye protection at the time (eg Richard here).

Should anybody have any answers to some of the many questions I am raising in this series, please leave a comment here (I'll need to vet it, so it may take a few days before it goes public) or contact me at michaelgrr [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk

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Season 2 so far:

  1. could be a cousin
  2. two weddings in Silesia
  3. off to Canada
  4. off to Australia
  5. a very romantic poet
  6. fireman August
  7. 50 hundredweight of coffee
  8. mysterious Minden people
  9. horses for Hedwig
  10. guessing the great-grandmothers
  11. cousin Charlotte
  12. three sisters
  13. travelling saleswoman
  14. family portrait
  15. dancing chemist
  16. games time
  17. desperately searching Wilhelm
  18. the third Hedwig
  19. patchwork portraits
  20. missing brothers
  21. the oberlehrer's family
  22. a double wedding
  23. mystery solved
  24. young Frieda
  25. old aunts and young children
  26. a semi-mysterious aunt
  27. a gathering at Gellrichs
  28. farm work at Bad Landeck
  29. meet the Weitze family
  30. a post-war wedding
  31. the joy of chemistry

I started a twitter thread for season 2 here. However, as the bird site seems to be turning into an evil empire, I have now switched to logging the entries in a similar thread on Mastodon.

The twitter thread for season 1 is still here. It only loads 30 tweets at first, so you have to click "show more" a couple of times to get all 40 entries. Alternatively, visit the last instalment and find the numbered list of entries at the bottom.

I'm also adding all photos from this series to my family history album on flickr.

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