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This is the cover for Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, by Kathryn Schulz. This book is the 2013-2014 WSU Common Reading.

Jeanie Shaw Wheeler describes life in White Bluffs, Washington, before the coming of the Hanford Engineer Works in 1943. Composed of excerpts from a 1979 oral history conducted by Margot H. Knight and images from the “Hanford, White Bluffs, and…

The exterior of Washington State University's Nuclear Reactor Building in 1968.

This Kodak advertisement from the 1900's is showing a lens that customers can buy. It is interesting to see the technology they had during the 1900's. The fact that they are advertising these cameras and lens' to the general public means that these…

The Provost Oats advertisement in The London Illustrated Times looks like it is saying, eat provost oats and be a manly man! The ad has a picture of a man in a kilt and suit jacket holding a giant bowl of steaming provost oats above his head. We get…

This is an advertisement for men and boys trying to get them to buy a pair of socks that makes their feet look thin with graduated legs. This gives us insight to what people viewed as fashionable and attractive. It does not show how the socks are…

This advertisement shows handcrafted furniture by Heal and Sons. It shows options for wooden or metal bed frames that they call "bedsteads" both with options for designs or colors. They also show options for bedding, carpets and something called…

This advertisement shows kitchen ware that is made of pure nickle. It shows the kind of materials they had access to and maybe what was considered fancy, Now kitchen tools are made of silver or high end materials like silver. It is a pretty basic…

An advertisement for Claxton's (patent) Ear-Cap, a product for "remedying prominent ears" and "preventing disfigurement in the after life." The ad features an illustrated picture of the product being worn by a young woman, and seems designed to…

An advertisement for wigs and toupees, both for men and women. The ad features an illustrated image of an unhappy bald man and promises wigs that are "perfect imitations of nature." The company specializes in wigs for both Ladies and Gentlemen, and…

An advertisement for Williams' Shaving Soaps, "the favorites for half a century." Unlike most ads from the time period, this ad does not feature large amounts of text, instead featuring a well-rendered illustration a man holding a package of…

An advertisement for Poncelet's Pastilles, a throat lozenge. The ad is simple, featuring an illustration of two men conversing. One is ill with a cough, and the other suggests taking Poncelet's Pastilles, and be cured within twenty-four hours.

The…

An advertisement for Keating's Lozenges, promising an "utterly unrivaled remedy for coughs, hoarseness, and throat troubles", as well as promising to cure "Winter Cough, Asthma, and Bronchitis."

This ad has no images, but does have large, bold,…

In this depiction of Noah's Ark from 1681, several pairs of animals are shown boarding Noah's Ark, including a pair of unicorns near the front of the line.

Still image to show the audience how Skookum looked like. One of the discoverers, 1898

1 map ; 47 x 43 cm.Scale 1 inch = 125 feet"From field notes of official survey August 1874. By E.B. True M.A. Surveyor and Dil.""Approved June 22nd, 1875. Henry W. Stanton. Mayor of Lewiston.""Filed for record July 1st A.D. 1879 at 9 o'clock at…

1 map; 23 x 31 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was Garfield…

1 map; 23 cm x 29 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was…

1 map; 23 x 32 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was Garfield…

1 map; 23 x 26 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was…

1 map: hand col., 29 x 43 cm.Scale: 1.5 inches = 40 miles.Longitude west from Greenwich at top. Longitude west from Washington at bottom."Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by A.J. Johnson in the Clerks Office of the District…

1 map : col. ; 40 x 28 cm.Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.Scale ca. 1:2,000.000.

1 map: col., 34 x 45 cm.This map, published by A.J. Johnson and his partner, Ward, shows the State of Oregon (entered into the Union in 1859), and Washington Territory. By 1865 the eastern border of Washington Territory had been defined, with…

1 map : hand col. ; 32 x 40 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Shows counties, cities, locations of native American tribal groups, and proposed railroad. Scale ca. 1:3,500,000 On verso: portion of "Historical and Statistical View…

1 map : col. ; 29 x 37 cm.Scale ca. 1:3,500,000.

1 map: hand col., 35 x 46 cmMap publisher Alvin Jewitt Johnson purchased steel plate engravings and copyrights from mapmaker J.H. Colton sometime around 1859. To conserve the plates, Johnson transferred the information from steel to lithographic…

This is a cartoon that represents the emotions the public felt after the failed attempt to impeach President Andrew Johnson. President Johnson is compared to an old rotting horse whose foul stench exudes the Radical Republicans failed attempt to…