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Webster. Management and welfare of farm animals : UFAW farm handbook. Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, 2011. Call Number: SF 61 .M23 2011 c.2
Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer's Introduction to Biodynamics. Floris Books, 2011. Call Number: S 605.5 .P475 2011
Ridley. Essentials of clinical laboratory science. Delmar, c2011. Call Number: RB 37 .R53 2011 c.2
Mitchell. Mathematical applications in agriculture. Delmar Cengage Learning, c2012. Call Number: S 566 .M585 2012 c.2
Kaiser and...
Continue reading "New Books"...This map wonderfully illustrates a point in time when the states made from the Northwest Territory were only partly formed and partially surveyed and subdivided. One can see how the most detailed survey work commenced along the Ohio, Mississippi and Detroit Rivers and spread up and out to the hinterlands.
Here we see Michigan beginning to take a more modern shape. As the...
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In 1865, Michigan’s mineral resources were just beginning to make a mark on the world. The western movement of people and wartime reliance on northern transportation routes drew attention to Michigan’s newly convenient resources including iron ore, copper, and salt.
The map at first glance is typical of its day, highlighting land divisions and railroad routes. But drawn over it in light lines are the boundaries of major geologic features of Michigan, which had recently been...
Continue reading "On Display This Week: Early Geology Map of Michigan"...John Thaden, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Michigan State College, mapped the many ethnic settlements among the farming population in Michigan. The map marks out twenty-one different European ethnicities plus Canadian, Indian [Native American], Mexican, and Negro. The 3 counties comprising the southwestern tip of Michigan alone were home to a large number of small ethnic clusters...
Continue reading "On Display This Week: Ethnic Clusters in Michigan, 1945"...This map shows us that our fascination with depictions of California as an island is nothing new. This 1772 map compares five maps of California that had been drawn between 1604 through 1767. During this time span California went from being a peninsula to an island, and back to a peninsula again.
The Spanish were the primary European explorers in the area. Traveling up the west coast of America from the south, the Baja...
Continue reading "Five early maps of California, 1604-1767"...Datamyne provides import-export trade data for the U.S., South America, Europe, and Asia. Use it for suppliers, supply chains, historical information, and more. South American historical content starts in 1996 and the remaining countries start in 2004. You can find it and other Business Library electronic resources here: http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/busdatabases.
This map depicts the status of land division and disposition of Datoka Territory, under the United States General Land Office. At this time Dakota Territory comprised modern day North Dakota and South Dakota.
In the prior decade gold had been discovered inside the Great Sioux Reservation, which had led to the war between the United States and the Native Americans living in the region. This map shows the Great Sioux Reservation with its revised boundary...
Continue reading "On Display This Week: Dakota Territory, 1882"...The last day to get food or personal items in is Friday, May 31. The donations will go to the MSU Food Bank to help others.
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This map is an early one to show the west coast of Africa in such detail. The Atlantic Slave Trade had been increasing for the past 150 years and was going to continue to increase for another 200. Portuguese influence can be seen by “Rio Portugues” dividing Mauritania (Genehoa) from Senegal. Goree Island, an early site of European activity, is noted. The cartouche shows light skinned people displaying products of bounty including fruit and...
Continue reading "On Display This Week: Senegal-Gambia, circa 1666"...