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Science in Special Collections: Primary Sources, Inquiry, and Information Literacy
J. Wendel Cox Senior Special Collection Librarian
Western History/Genealogy DepartmentDenver Public Library
Colorado TLD 2013March 1, 2013
Libraries
Special Collections
Primary Sources
History
Science
Diverse Collections
Diverse Users
Science, Technology, Engineering,and
Mathematics
Railroads
Library of Congress. Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Survey/Historic American Landscape Survey. RAILROAD, RR. BRIDGE MISSISSIPPI, CLAY CO., Detail: Turn machinery.
Oceans of Air
Library of Congress. Technical illustration shows four stages of André Garnerin's parachute: apparatus for inflating a balloon with hydrogen, a balloon in flight, parachute attached to ascending balloon, and parachute deployed in descent. Etching between 1860 and 1880.
Transforming the Night
Library of Congress. Singer Tower illuminated, New York City. c. 1909.
The Terror of Milk
Library of Congress. Milk truckers .... Ohio : WPA Art Program, [between 1936 and 1940].
Directions
History of Science
Scientific Inquiry
Science Past
Science PresentScience Present
“An Entirely Synthetic Fish”
Anders Halverson. An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the
World.
Richard A. Minnich. California’s Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and
Biological Invasions.
Steven Johnson. The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern
World.
SourcesSources
Meriwether Lewis. Eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus), February 24, 1806, Codex J, pp. 93 American Philosophical Society Library.
Librarians
Science in Special Collections: Primary Sources, Inquiry, and Information Literacy
J. Wendel Cox Senior Special Collection Librarian
Western History/Genealogy DepartmentDenver Public Library
Colorado TLD 2013March 1, 2013