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Page 5 of Seaweeds, Great Britain, circa 1850

Welcome: A Guide to the Virtual Exhibition

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Pennsylvania’s Energy Heritage

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black and white photograph of Donora, Pa.

The Donora Smog

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A Park within 25 Miles of Every Resident

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Hurricane Agnes

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Page from Harriman Alaska Expedition Diary, 1899

1899 Alaska Expedition Diary

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Urban Environment Conference, Inc.Reagan, Toxics and Minorities: A Policy Report, September, 1984 United Steelworkers of America, Legislative Department records

Racist Environmental Policies

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Map displaying temperature areas in Centralia, Pa.

Centralia Fire

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solar header

Sun Power

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Earth Day advertisement, Daily Collegian, April 22, 1970.

Penn State Earth Days

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Teach-In plan

1970 Environmental Teach-Ins

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Inaction and Denial

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Modern Climate Science

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Rachel Carson, with illustrations by Lois and Louis Darling, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962

A Fable for Tomorrow

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Svante Arrhenius, Världarnas utveckling, Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Förlag, [1906]

100 Years of Climate Science, 1856-1957

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Page 11, illustration for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein, the Arctic, and Climate Change

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Suminagashi print on paper, Polluted Waterways Monoprint

Marbled Paper Made from Polluted Waterways

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Cover of Eskimo Cook Book

Living with Climate Change

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Page 14 of Seaweeds, Great Britain, circa 1850

150-year-old Seaweed Specimens

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WE ARE SUSTAINABLE: Student Environmental Activism at Penn State

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Death’s in the Air

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Page from Julia Kasdorf's shale play notes

Other Donoras

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Audubon Ruffed Grouse illustration

Audubon’s Ruffed Grouse

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All Hail the Lion

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Image of microplastics from Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals

Microplastics in the Oceans

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Fungal Futures

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Earth Day Poster, 1970

Poster for First Earth Day

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Weather records for Philipsburg, Pa.

Weather Diaries

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Complete Minidewak set

Covenant of Reciprocity

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Cover of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower

Climate Change Dystopia

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Photograph of Ralph Brock

Ralph E. Brock, Forester

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National Staff of Environmental Action, Earth Day—The Beginning: A Guide for Survival, New York: Arno Press & The New York Times, 1970.

The Origins of Earth Day

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Philipp Lindemann, Herbal manuscript, circa 1835-1867

The Virtues of Plants

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Chart of Oil and Gas Sand of Pennsylvania, from Pennsylvania's Mineral Heritage

Fossil Fuels

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Title page of A Meteorological Account of the Weather in Philadelphia: from January 1, 1790, to January 1, 1847, including Fifty-Seven Years

57 Years of Weather in Philadelphia

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Illustrations of snakes and insects

Ecological Treatise for Hunters

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Penn State’s Living Filter

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Eco-Action flier

Eco Action

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