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- First Day Cover Honoring Rachel Carson, May 28, 1981 - Marine biologist Rachel Carson helped spark the environmental movements of the 1960s with her book <em>Silent Spring</em>. It described how widespread pesticide use, in particular DDT, was harming and killing birds and other animals as well as threatening the health of humans. Her book helped the general population understand the interconnected nature of ecosystems and how localized polluting affects larger natural systems.
- May 28, 1981
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First Day Cover Honoring Rachel Carson, May 28, 1981
Marine biologist Rachel Carson helped spark the environmental movements of the 1960s with her book Silent Spring. It described how widespread pesticide use, in particular DDT, was harming and killing birds and other animals as well as threatening the health of humans. Her book helped the general population understand the interconnected nature of ecosystems and how localized polluting affects larger natural systems.
- Milk in Such Containers May Be Unfit for Human Consumption, 1969 - Scientific debates about connections between DDT (a chemical used in pesticides), human health, and environmental degradation escalated in the late 1960s. Environmental activist organizations produced provocative interpretations of scientific data to promote their cause. The Ecology Center published this poster, featuring a photograph by Eli Leon, to raise awareness of the dangers of residual DDT in mothers' breast milk.
- 1969
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Milk in Such Containers May Be Unfit for Human Consumption, 1969
Scientific debates about connections between DDT (a chemical used in pesticides), human health, and environmental degradation escalated in the late 1960s. Environmental activist organizations produced provocative interpretations of scientific data to promote their cause. The Ecology Center published this poster, featuring a photograph by Eli Leon, to raise awareness of the dangers of residual DDT in mothers' breast milk.
- "Life" Bound Volume of Issues, July-September 1945 - First published in 1883 as a general-interest and humor publication, Life magazine became America's first all-photographic weekly news magazine after being purchased and re-envisioned by publisher Henry Luce in 1936. Under Luce, its popularity boomed, and by the 1950s more than 22 million Americans read the publication. This bound volume contains issues from July through September 1945.
- July 1945-September 1945
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"Life" Bound Volume of Issues, July-September 1945
First published in 1883 as a general-interest and humor publication, Life magazine became America's first all-photographic weekly news magazine after being purchased and re-envisioned by publisher Henry Luce in 1936. Under Luce, its popularity boomed, and by the 1950s more than 22 million Americans read the publication. This bound volume contains issues from July through September 1945.
- Life Magazine, Bound Volume, April-June 1944 -
- April 1944 - June 1944
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Life Magazine, Bound Volume, April-June 1944
- First Day Cover Honoring Rachel Carson, May 28, 1981 - Marine biologist Rachel Carson helped spark the environmental movements of the 1960s with her book <em>Silent Spring</em>. It described how widespread pesticide use, in particular DDT, was harming and killing birds and other animals as well as threatening the health of humans. Her book helped the general population understand the interconnected nature of ecosystems and how localized polluting affects larger natural systems.
- May 28, 1981
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First Day Cover Honoring Rachel Carson, May 28, 1981
Marine biologist Rachel Carson helped spark the environmental movements of the 1960s with her book Silent Spring. It described how widespread pesticide use, in particular DDT, was harming and killing birds and other animals as well as threatening the health of humans. Her book helped the general population understand the interconnected nature of ecosystems and how localized polluting affects larger natural systems.
- Life Magazine, Bound Volume, July-Sept 1943 -
- July 1943- September 1943
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Life Magazine, Bound Volume, July-Sept 1943
- Sales Brochure from Sherwin Williams Research, "Use Pestroy DDT!," 1945-1950 -
- 1945-1950
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Sales Brochure from Sherwin Williams Research, "Use Pestroy DDT!," 1945-1950
- The New Yorker, June 23, 1962 -
- June 23, 1962
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The New Yorker, June 23, 1962
- Time Magazine for June 30, 1947, "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi" -
- June 30, 1947
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Time Magazine for June 30, 1947, "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi"