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Best-of-the-First-Year: Bartram’s Botanical Expedition through Southeast North America

Best-of-the-First-Year: Bartram’s Botanical Expedition through Southeast North America

Bartram, William (1739–1823). Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida. . . . Philadelphia: James and Johnson, 1791. Jay I. Kislak ...

 

Best-of-the-First-Year: Display of home-canned food

Best-of-the-First-Year: Display of home-canned food

between 1941 and 1945 Original title from FSA or OWI agency caption: Unidentified stacks of home-canned food. Photo shows jars of yellow squash, peas, beets, and other ...

 

Best-of-the-First-Year: Descartes’s Mechanical Philosophy

Best-of-the-First-Year: Descartes’s Mechanical Philosophy

descartes mechanical philosophy an illustration René Descartes.  Amsterdam: Apud L. Elzevirium, 1644. Rare Book and Special Collections Division (73) The Library of Congress According to French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650), ...

 

Best-of-the-First-Year: original pilot style

Best-of-the-First-Year: original pilot style

Palmer, Alfred T., photographer. The kind of man Hitler wishes we didn’t have. A bomber pilot, captain in a bombardment squadron, just before he climbs aboard ...

 

Best-of-the-First-Year: sulphur

Best-of-the-First-Year: sulphur

John Vachon,  1914-1975, photographer. Loading sulphur from vat, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas 1943 May 1 transparency : color. Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office ...

 

Best-of-the-First-Year: small hotel, Puerto Rico … San Juan

Best-of-the-First-Year: small hotel, Puerto Rico … San Juan

Jack Delano,  1914-, photographer. Malaria poster in small hotel, Puerto Rico … San Juan 1941 Dec. 1 transparency : color. Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office ...

 

W5RAn best-of-wknd: Bartram’s Botanical Expedition through Southeast North America

W5RAn best-of-wknd: Bartram’s Botanical Expedition through Southeast North America

In 1765–1766, William Bartram, a British colonial botanist and ornithologist, accompanied his father on an expedition to the Carolinas, Georgia, and East Florida.  In 1773, ...

 

W5RAn best-of-wknd:

W5RAn best-of-wknd:

Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer. Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods from the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill. 1942 Dec. 1 ...

 

W5RAn best-of-wknd: Descartes’s Mechanical Philosophy

W5RAn best-of-wknd: Descartes’s Mechanical Philosophy

descartes mechanical philosophy an illustration René Descartes.  Amsterdam: Apud L. Elzevirium, 1644. Rare Book and Special Collections Division (73) The Library of Congress According to French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650), ...

 

W5RAn best-of-wknd: Joseph Merit “Tully” sometime between 1910 and 1915

W5RAn best-of-wknd: Joseph Merit “Tully” sometime between 1910 and 1915

Bain News Service, publisher. Tully [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the ...