In an ongoing effort to make more of the Library's collections freely available online to researchers, science and business specialists work in cooperation with the Library’s digitization initiative and other partners to select items for the Science and Business Reading Room digital collections.
Digital Collections
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CollectionDun & Bradstreet Reference Book Collection R.G. Dun & Company, now known as Dun & Bradstreet, was a credit reporting agency that provided ratings on an enterprise’s financial strength and ability to pay back debts. This was useful information for those interested in doing business with or lending money to a particular company. Dun & Company published quarterly credit ratings on the merchants, manufacturers, and traders in the United States…- Contributor: R.G. Dun & Company - Mercantile Agency (New York, N.Y.)
- Date: 1859
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CollectionGarden and Forest Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) was the first American journal devoted to horticulture, botany, landscape design and preservation, national and urban park development, scientific forestry, and the conservation of forest resources. The journal was established by Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Though the journal was published independently, Sargent…- Contributor: Sargent, Charles Sprague
- Date: 1888
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CollectionOffice of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Reports On June 27, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved an order External issued by the Council of National Defense, a First World War era group of six Cabinet Secretaries, revived to coordinate support for the upcoming war effort. This order established the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), directing that the committee to “correlate and support scientific research on the mechanisms and devices of warfare…”.Collection Items: View 1,198 Items