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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today, our beloved bottles of ketchup are consistent and shelf-stable thanks to the work of Katherine and Arvill Bitting who examined over 1,600 bottles of ketchup, visited 40 canneries producing tomato pulp, and toured 20 ketchup factories to come up with a method to make a safe and preservative-free ketchup.
Posted in: Biography, Cookbooks and Food, Rare Books and Special Collections, Science, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Samuel G. Goodrich, known to his young readers as Peter Parley, published the first illustration of dinosaurs in an American children's book in 1840.
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
In the 19th century naturalists and enlightened amateurs in the U.S. cultivated an understanding of the natural world of this new country by documenting new and known varieties of plant and animal species. One of these scientific pursuits was conchology- the study and collection of marine, freshwater and terrestrial shells. The story of American conchology …
Posted in: Rare Books and Special Collections, Zoology
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The following is a guest post authored by Elizabeth Gettins, a Digital Conversion Specialist for the Library’s Rare Book and Special Collections (RBSC). She has worked on multiple RBSC digital collections through the years such as the Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake, the Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks and the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana …
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Rare Books and Special Collections