Tag: Library of Congress
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Behind the Scenes with the Library of Congress Chinese Manuscript Collection
Here is another interesting accidental find, this time from papers at the Library of Congress. In 1917, Professor S.C. Kiang, an academic at the University of California in Berkeley, traveled to China to procure for the Library of Congress valuable Chinese manuscripts relating to geography, and on his return, reported on his doings in China…
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Maury Whale Chart
When English colonists first began settling the eastern seaboard of North America, they quickly discovered in its coastal waters enough fish to feed the growing Euro-American population for generations. A variety of whales also swam the coastal waters of America’s astonishingly rich fisheries too. While fish supplied food, whales yielded precious sperm oil and whale…