Month: March 2025

Trials, Tribulations, and A Smuggled Sandwich: The Story of Gemini III

by Jacob Wilson, posted in Aerial Photography, Films, Food, NASA, Photographs, Space, Still Pictures, Video Recordings

This weekend marked the 60th anniversary of the Gemini III mission, which took place on March 23, 1965. The flight, while being one of many that would eventually lead to Neil Armstrong’s famous first steps on the moon, would itself establish many firsts that would define mankind’s traversal of the stars. Photograph of Gemini III … Continue reading Trials, Tribulations, and A Smuggled Sandwich: The Story of Gemini III

“Only Wac Photographer in E.T.O.”: Sergeant Irene Marquardt

by Alex Lange, posted in Military, Photographs, Still Pictures, U.S. Army, women in the military, World War II

Among hundreds of thousands of captions, just a handful proclaim Sgt. Irene Marquardt’s position as the “only Wac photographer" in the European Theater of Operations. A colleague had asked if we knew how many women photographers are represented in the holdings of the Still Picture Branch.