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Brochure: Through the American Wonderland: The Pacific Northwest, 1923
A spread from a Burlington Route brochure promoting train travel as a life-changing adventure.
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Brochure: Burlington Vista-Domes, 1955
A Burlington Route brochure promoting the new “Vista-Dome” coaches in 1955.
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Umwelt als Ressource: Die sächsische Papierindustrie 1850–1930
Umwelt als Ressource highlights the interaction and co-evolution of modern industry and the environment, using the example of the German paper industry in Saxony.
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Hausmüll: Abfall und Gesellschaft in Westdeutschland 1945–1990
Hausmüll documents the rise of a “new” environmental problem in post-war Germany, that of an increase in consumption and consequently a dramatic increase in waste.
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Map: The 1974 flooding of Brisbane
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
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Painting: “The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824”
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
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Painting: Rescue during the 1847 Vienna flood
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
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Photograph: Suna River, 1915
An early color photograph of the Suna River by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944), who is also featured in the picture.
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“The Armchair Traveler’s Guide to Digital Environmental Humanities”
Finn Arne Jørgensen brings Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s analysis of the relationship between technology, media, and the perception of landscape into the digital age as a way of examining the spatiality of digital media and the natural world.
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Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett, and Gregg Mitman have assembled a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene, bringing together a mix of lively essays, creatively chosen objects, and stunning photographs by acclaimed photographer Tim Flach. Future Remains gathers fifteen objects which resemble more the tarots of a fortuneteller than the archaeological finds of an expedition—they speak of planetary futures.