Around the World in (Almost!) 80 Collections
Using digitized items and their data to take a global journey.
The Science History Institute’s digital collections librarian, Annabel Pinkney, explores the geographic reach of our digitized collections in an ArcGIS StoryMap, a platform that helps librarians, curators, and storytellers harness Geographical Information Systems (or GIS) to analyze and display location data.
Click the map below to join Annabel on a global journey of data, digital collections, and spatial dimensions.
Will’s Habitat Map from A Manual of Vegetable Materia Medica written by George Sampson Valentine Wills, 1886.
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A Synthetic History
From the lab to the closet, nylon spins a useful web.
Streaming Science History
One hundred historical videos and films from the Othmer Library are now available online!
The Ants (and Spiders and Roaches) Go Marching
How the creepy crawlies in our collections turned my “Eww” into “Wow!”