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