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Der große Ausverkauf (The Big Sellout)
Portraits of privatization from around the world show how the daily lives of people using what were once considered public resources are affected.
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Map: Lands of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska in the Great Republican Valley, 1879
Map of the “Great Republican Valley” showing Burlington & Missouri River Rail Road lands for sale in Nebraska (1879).
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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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Transformation of Landscapes | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke discusses texts that register transformations of landscapes or take a position on their causes. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Landschaftsveränderungen | Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke discusses texts that register transformations of landscapes or take a position on their causes. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
Arcadia
Lahar Meets Locomotive: New Zealand’s Tangiwai Railway Disaster of Christmas Eve 1953
The Tangiwai disaster of 1953, New Zealand’s worst railway accident, is an environmental disaster with an enduring legacy.
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Ecopolis Catalog | Ecopolis München 2019
Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?
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New York Harbor and the Vicious Circle of the Winter of 1917–1918
Severe winter weather in 1917–1918 paralyzed New York Harbor impacting logistical operations for the Allies in World War I.