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Photograph of Rachel Carson testifying before Congress, 1963
Rachel Carson testifying before the Senate Government Operations subcommitte.
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Map: CB&Q map of Chicago, 1880
This 1880 map centered on Chicago displays the early CB&Q railroad route.
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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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Photograph: Theodore Roosevelt in Nahuel Huapi National Park, 1913
A photograph of Theodore Roosevelt visiting the Nahuel Huapi National Park in Argentina, 1913.
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Map: The 1974 flooding of Brisbane
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
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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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Photograph: Princesses Against Plutonium, Nuclear Test Site, Nevada, 1988
This 1988 photograph by Richard Misrach portrays the influential activist group Princesses Against Plutonium.
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Photograph: Anti-nuclear protest, Wyhl, Germany, 1975
An unexpected group of activists, consisting of mostly farmers and vintners, occupied the construction site of a nuclear reactor near the German town of Wyhl in 1975.
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Lithograph: Lena River, 1856
Lithograph by Leopold Niemirowski from Puteshestvie po vostochnoi Sibiri I. Bulychova (Bulychov’s Travels in Eastern Siberia), 1856.
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Photograph: Canal río San Francisco, 1930
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.