Environmental Studies Resources
Primary Sources
American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
This collection consists of approximately 4,500 photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. Produced between 1891 and 1936 by a group of American botanists generally regarded as one of the most influential in the development of modern ecological studies, these photographs provide an overview of important representative natural landscapes across the nation. The photographs were taken by Henry Chandler Cowles (1869-1939), George Damon Fuller (1869-1961), and other Chicago ecologists on field trips across the North American continent.
(Last checked 02/14/08)
Early Encounters in North America : People, Cultures, and the Environment
This collection documents the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection includes both published and unpublished accounts, narratives, diaries, journals, and letters. Access restricted to MSU IP ranges.
(Last checked 02/14/08)
Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources
This resource contains primary source documents that focus on environmental issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, it contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library provided to MSU faculty and students.
Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner, eds. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 515 pp.
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(Last checked 02/14/08)
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress.
The collection consists of 62 books and pamphlets, 140 Federal statutes and Congressional resolutions, 34 additional legislative documents, excerpts from the Congressional Globe and the Congressional Record, 360 Presidential proclamations, 170 prints and photographs, 2 historic manuscripts, and 2 motion pictures.
(Last checked 02/14/08)
Library Catalog
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To find primary sources held at the MSU Libraries, perform a keyword search in the library catalog with some of these subject keywords in conjunction with your topic's keyword(s): archives; archival resources; correspondence; diaries; manuscripts; notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.; personal narratives; personnel records; records and correspondence; and sources.
(Last checked 02/14/08)
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