Graphic novel: Asbestos, PQ
This graphic novel tells the story of a town shaped by asbestos mining.
This graphic novel tells the story of a town shaped by asbestos mining.
The Golillas Dam, one of the works of the Chingaza Páramo project, was the largest infrastructural project in the history of water supply for Bogotá during the twentieth century.
In addition to depicting a phase of the channelization works of the San Francisco River, this image shows Bogotá’s urban landscape, with the Eastern Mountains in the background and trees such as eucalyptus, pines and cypress along the river.
This 1880 map centered on Chicago displays the early CB&Q railroad route.
Map of the “Great Republican Valley” showing Burlington & Missouri River Rail Road lands for sale in Nebraska (1879).
A spread from a Burlington Route brochure promoting train travel as a life-changing adventure.
A Burlington Route brochure promoting the new “Vista-Dome” coaches in 1955.
Covering the crater of a 1977 nuclear test, the “Cactus Dome” contains 84,000 cubic meters of radioactive soil.
An early color photograph of the Suna River by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944), who is also featured in the picture.