A one-story, temporary building of frame construction. It has a partial basement and is heated by steam heat from the Central Heating Plant. There are 27 offices, 10 classrooms, 5 laboratories, and 2 projection rooms in the building. Overall…
Stereograph showing a view of several businesses and crowds of pedestrians on the sidewalk; street railroad trains running along elevated railroad tracks.
1 map; 36 x 38 cm.Shows additions, lot numbers, street names, railroads, county roads, swamps, military reserves, section numbers, and names of some landowners."Lines drawn crooked are intended to show incorrect surveys."Depth of navigable waterways…
1 map : col. ; 45 x 31 cm. or smallerRelief shown by contours and spot heightsTitle supplied by catalogerSet includes various editions"Surveyed in 1899""Contour interval 100 feet. Datum is mean sea level." Scale 1:125,000 ; Polyconic proj. (W…
Letter, Ralph Waldo Emerson to Walt Whitman extolling Whitman's poetry, 21 July 1855.
In one of the most quoted letters in American literary history, Emerson writes to an eager Whitman, "I greet you at the beginning of a brilliant career..." …
The engine room ca. 1899 with Matthew Sillman "engineer" in the foreground. The room was once located in the SE corner of the old Mechanical Engineering, WSU Building 22. A figure is visible exiting the arched entrance.…
A two-story building of brick and concrete construction. Has wood floors with exception of concrete ground floor. There are 7 classrooms, 1 office, and 6 laboratories in the building. Overall dimensions are 226' x 60' and floor area totals 24,832…
This engraving of a llama from Henry Brewer and Elias Herckeman’s A Voyage to the Kingdom of Chili [sic] in America shows a rather accurate rendering of a llama, save for the monstrous claws on the llama's front feet.
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.
In this engraving of several microbes, one of the microbes was depicted with what looks like a human face on its surface. This image comes from the early days of microscopy and the human face is likely a figment of the scientist's imagination.
The advertisement is directed at healthy folk and physical fitness. It claims that a small 'dash' of Eno's Fruit Salt sparkling in a glass of water first thing on rising every morning is the athlete's natural safeguard to health. This ad is…