| 1.
Environmental
Factors -- On-line Information
Climate Change Fact
Sheets-INDEX
Biotelemetry
and Telemetry Links
El
Nino Data
The 1997 El
Nino/Southern Oscillation
[ENSO 97-98]
Earth
Resources Observation System Data Center
GIS
Data [USGS]
U.S.
Geological Survey Circulars
EnviroMapper [EPA]
NatureServe
Explorer - An Online Encyclopedia of Life
MAMMFAUN
(Geographical Distribution of Mammals)
eNature.com
Global
land environments during the last 130,000 years
North
American Wildlife Information
ForestEthics
OceanLaw (Guides to International Fisheries Law)
American
Forests
Oceans
and Marine Conservation (U.S. State Dept. - not updated
since 2001)
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2.
Federal
Agencies -- History and Collections
a.
Department of Agriculture
USDA
On-line Photographic Center-Conservation
USDA
History Collections
Forest Service
National
Museum of Forest Service History
Grey
Towers [National Historic Site -- Home of Gifford Pinchot]
U.S.
Forest Service History [Forest History Society]
Collection
Guide
Atmospheric
Disturbance Climatology
National
Grasslands
Southern
Forest Resource Assessment (Extensive historical analysis)
National Agricultural Library
Alternative
Farming Systems Information Center
Conservation
Effects Assessment Project (CEAP)
Publications
Economic Research Service
Harmony
between Agriculture and the Environment
Invasive
Species
Natural
Resources and Environment
Radiation
Monitoring Program
Natural
Resources Conservation Service [history]
Readings in
the History of the Soil Conservation Service (scroll down to
"History Notes)
Photo Gallery
<>b.
Department of the Interior
Department
of the Interior [brief, but includes timeline]
USDI
Library [Washington, D.C.]
The
Department of Everything Else: Highlights of Interior History
Bureau
of Land Management [brief history]
Bureau of
Reclamation
BoR
History Program
BoR
Cultural Resource Management
Fish
and Wildlife Service
U.S.
Geological Survey
Circular 1050: The United States Geological Survey:
1879-1989
USGS Museum
Property Management Program
USGS Library
U.S.
Geographic Names Information System
Biological
Resources Division
Land
Use History of North America (LUHNA)
Land
Use History of the Colorado Plateau (CP-LUHNA)
Minerals
Management Service [online library]
Office
of Surface Mining
National
Park Service [organizational history site]
"History
in the National Park Service: Ask a Historian"
Oral
History at the NPS
History and
Culture
National
Register of Historic Places
Heritage
Preservation Services
Mission
66 Architecture [national park visitor centers]
National
Park Service On-Line Histories
Park
and Administrative Histories
America's
National Park System: The Critical Documents,
ed. by Larry M. Dilsaver [NPS]
The
Origin and Evolution of the National Military Park Idea
(1973) by Ronald F. Lee [NPS]
Glimpses
of Our National Parks [NPS]
Glimpses
of Our National Monuments [NPS]
Glimpses
of Historical Areas East of the Mississippi River [NPS]
The
Magic of Yellowstone: History Guide [non-NPS]
Environmental
Protection Agency History Office
Publications
On-Line
EPA/Environmental History Bibliography
EPA Timeline
[Agency
site -- Includes numerous brief essays on events in EPA history]
EPA History Topics
[Includes primary documents]
Origins
of the EPA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
NOAA
Photo Library
Local Weather
Service Office Histories
NOAA
and "Preserve America"
c.
Tennessee
Valley Authority
Tennessee
Valley Authority
Natural
Heritage Project
TVA Heritage Series
New
Deal Network [Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute : extensive
resource including material related to TVA
and many other 1930's government conservation programs]
<>d.
Library of
Congress
American
Memory Collections
American
Landscape and Architectural Design
Florida
Everglandes Environmental History
Mapping
the National Parks
Tending
the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
The
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920,
Documentary
Chronology of Selected Events in
the Development of the American Conservation Movement, 1847-1920
1847-1871
| 1872-1889
| 1890-1900
| 1901-1907
| 1908-1911
| 1912-1920
The
Hetch Hetchy Controversy, 1903-13 [Bibliography]
Conservation
and Evironment [Maps]
American
Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
LoC
Subject headings for Environmental Resources,
from
The Electronic Green Journal
Sportsmen
and Conservationism, c.1850-1920 [Bibliography]
The
Nature Essay, c.1850-1920 [Bibliography]
Nature
and Wilderness as Recreational Resources, 1850-1920 [Bibliography]
Scenic
and Wilderness Travel Literature, c.1850-1920 [Bibliography]
Explorations
in Environmental History [Lesson Plans]
<>e. Other Federal Agencies
Army
Corps of Engineers
Preserve
America Initiative
New
Deal Network [Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute : extensive
resource including material related to TVA
and many other 1930's government conservation programs]
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3.
U.S. Environmental Organizations
a.
National Organizations [history pages where available]
The Environment Directory
[Major search engine for environmental organizations and issues]
Izaak
Walton League
Sierra
Club
National
Wildlife Federation
Audubon
Society
Environmental
Defense Fund
EarthFirst!
Greenpeace
U.S.
League
of Conservation Voters
National
Parks and Conservation Association
History in the Parks
Nature
Conservancy
Timeline
National
Geographic Society
Explorer's
Hall [museum]
Natural
Resources Defense Council
Friends
of the Earth [U.S.]
Timeline
Society
for Conservation Biology
Trust
for Public Land
Wilderness Society
Society Library
b. State and Local
Environmental History
Michigan
Environmental Council -- History Project [Includes timeline,
photos, articles]
Environmental
Affairs in New York State: An Historical Overview
Pennsylvania's
Environmental Heritage [Pennsylvania Deptartment of Environmental
Protection]
Environmental
History of Georgia: Overview [New Georgia Encyclopedia]
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| 4.
Programs of Study, Syllabi and Bibliographies
a. Programs of Study
Academic
Info - Environmental Studies Resources
Second
Nature -- Education for Sustainability
Institute
for Environmental History [St. Andrews -- U.K.]
Directory
of Environmental Programs of Study
The
North American Alliance for Green Education
Ecological
Society of America
Brown
University Center for Environmental Studies
SUNY
College of Environmental Studies
b. Syllabi and
Related Materials
Environmental
History Syllabi [H-ASEH]
Environmental
History Syllabi [Cal-Berkeley]
Nature
Transformed: The Environment in American History [A TeacherServe
project
of the National Humanities Center]
Native
Americans and the Land
Wilderness
and American Identity
The
Use of the Land
Cities
and Suburbs
The
Roots of Preservation
National
Environmental Education & Training Foundation
American
Environmental and Cultural History
[Carolyn
Merchant -- Cal-Berkeley]
North
American Association for Environmental Education [K-12 focus]
EELink
[Environmental Education on the Internet]
"Peoples,
Prairies, Plains" [NEH Summer Institute 1995-6]
B1. Some Textbooks:
Ted Steinberg. Down
to Earth:
Nature's Role in American History. New York: Oxford University
Press,
2002.
John Opie. Nature's
Nation:
An Environmental History of the United States. San Diego, CA:
Harcourt
Brace, 1998.
Albert Cowdrey, This Land,
This South: An Environmental History. rev. edition. Lexington,
KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
c. Bibliographies
Internet
for Agriculture, Food & Forestry
Forestry
Forest
Genetics and Tree Breeding
Association
for the Study of Literature and Environment
Library
of Environmental Writing
ASLE
Booksellers List
Bibliography
of the Age of Encounters, by Dan Phippon
Carnegie-Mellon
University Library Environmental History Page
Library of Congress -- American Memory Bibliographies
Sportsmen
and Conservationism, c.1850-1920 [Bibliography]
The
Nature Essay, c.1850-1920 [Bibliography]
Nature
and Wilderness as Recreational Resources, 1850-1920 [Bibliography]
Scenic
and Wilderness Travel Literature, c.1850-1920 [Bibliography]
The
Hetch Hetchy Controversy, 1903-13 [Bibliography]
On-Line
EPA/Environmental History Bibliography
America's
National Park System: The Critical Documents,
ed. by Larry M. Dilsaver [NPS]
USGS Science
Resources For Undergraduate Education
Landmarks
of American Nature Writing
from
Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley (U. of Virginia)
Marist
Environmental History Project [Focuses on Hudson River]
Eastern
Pennsylvania Environmental Heritage [Drexel University]
U.S. Geological
Survey Publications Warehouse
Environmental
Ethics Bibliography
EPA/Environmental History
Bibliography
Association
for Environmental Archaeology Bibliography
Bibliography
of Genetic Variation in Natural Populations
American
Environmental History Bibliography,
by
Dan Florez (1991)
Cultural
Landscapes Bibliograhy,
by
Neil Maher (1997)
Place
and Identity Bibliography,
by
Richard A. Viti
A
Romantic Natural History, by Ashton Nichols
Grand
Canyon Bibliography
Forest
History Society Bibliography
Natural
Resources Conservation Service History Articles
"Environmental
History" [special issue of OAH Magazine of History]
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5.
People in U.S. Environmental History
a. General
Profiles in
Conservation [from
the Wilderness Society]
Conservation
Hall of Fame [National Wildlife Federation]
Legends
[Outdoor Writers Association of America]
Surveyors
of the American West <>b.
Individuals(arranged
chronologically)
William
Bartram
Thomas Jefferson
Johnny
Appleseed
John
James Audubon
Edmund Ruffin
Agricultural,
Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the
Similar
Adjacent Lands
Thomas Cole
Henry
David Thoreau
Thoreau
Writings
Walden.org
George
Perkins Marsh
George
Perkins Marsh Institute [Clark University]
Thomas Moran
Albert Bierstadt
John
Wesley Powell
John
Wesley Powell Museum
Colorado
River Expedition [The American Experience]
John
Burroughs
J.
Sterling Morton
John
Muir
Our
National Parks by John Muir [ Sierra Club]
Luther Burbank
George Bird Grinnell
Ellen
Swallow Richards
WJ
McGee
George
Washington Carver
Carver
National Monument
Caroline
Bartlett Crane
E. H.
Harriman
Gifford
Pinchot
Theodore
Roosevelt
Administration
Accomplishments
Rosalie
Edge
Hugh
Hammond Bennett
Paul Sears:
Pioneering
botanist and ecologist at the University of Oklahoma and later at
Oberlin
College. Best known for his work, Deserts on the March
(1935)
in which he popularized the concept of "desertification" and offered
suggestions
for remedial measures. Sears' work had a great influence on the
U.S.
Government's response to the Dust Bowl, as well as subsequent U.S. and
world-wide grassland ecology and public policy.
Harold
Ickes
Rexford
Tugwell
Robert Marshall
Robert
Marshall Papers [with longer biography]
Olaus
& Mardy Murie
Murie
Center
Richard Leonard
William
O. Douglas
Rachel
Carson
David
Brower
Aldo Leopold
The
Leopold Education Project
Leopold
Foundation
Wallace Stegner
Paul
& Anne Ehrlich
Barry Commoner
Ralph
Nader
Terry
Tempest Williams
Garret
Hardin
The
Tragedy of the Commons
Ansel
Adams
Dian
Fossey
Edward
Abbey
Eugene
Odum
"Eugene
Odum: An Ecologist's Life" [PBS Documentary]
Marjorie
Stoneman Douglas
Bibliography
Stewart Udall
James Watt
Dave
Foreman
Dixie Lee Ray
Gary
Snyder
Theo Colborn
Wendell
Berry |
6.
Issues and Events in U.S. Environmental History (arranged
chronologically)
Pleistocene
Extinctions
Destruction
of the Bison
Fur Trade and Game
Depletion
Columbian
Exchange
Virgin
Soil Epidemics
Anthropogenic Burning
Lewis and Clark
Expedition
Lewis
and Clark National Historic Trail
Exploring
the West from Monticello
Year without a Summer
(1816)
Southern Soil Crises
Virginia,
1790-1830
South Carolina,
1820-1850
The
Cotton
Kingdom, 1880-1940
Passenger Pigeon
Extinction
Hudson River School
[See sect.
5b for individual painters]
Hudson
River Reference Collection [painting images]
Historic
Hudson River [links]
PBS
-- "I
Hear America Singing"
"Glorifying
the Wilderness"
Hudson
River School: "The Second Generation"
"The
Mother of the Forest" [California Sequoias]
Hydraulic Mining
Winter of 1886
Range Wars
Johnstown
Flood (1889)
Museum
National
Park Service Memorial
Dutch
Elm Disease
Chestnut
Blight
The Jungle [Upton
Sinclair]
White
House Conservation Conference (1908)
Hetch Hetchy Controversy
History
of the 1903-1914 Struggle [Sierra Club]
Gifford
Pinchot's Role
"Hetch
Hetchy Valley," by John Muir
Before
& After Photographs
"Restore
Hetch Hetchy" Group
Timeline
1908
Congressional Hearings
Raker
Act
Library
of Congress Resources
Conservation vs.
Environmentalism
The
"Harriman Expedition"
The Boll Weevil Invasion
Boll
Weevil Monument
Leaded
[Ethyl Brand] Gasoline Controversy
New
Jersey Radium Lawsuits
National
Coast Anti-Pollution League
The Dust Bowl
Surviving
the Dust Bowl [The American Experience -- PBS]
Voices
from the Dust Bowl [Library of Congress -- American Folklife Center]
Black
Sunday [April 14, 1935]
Central Valley Project
Levittown
Levittown
(NY) Historical Society
Levittown
History Links
Documents
of an Ideal American Suburb
McDonald's
Corporate
Environmental Policies
1994
U.K. Libel Trial
Malibu (CA) Wildfires
Natural
History of Flood and Fire Cycles [California Coastal Commission]
"Let
Malibu Burn: A Political History of the Fire Coast"
Santa
Ana Winds
Fire
Wars [PBS Nova Special]
Mission
66
Mount
Rainier Projects
See
Allaback, Mission
66 Visitor Centers
Mission
66 Papers in the NPS Collections
One
Note:
While architectural historians have studied Mission 66 structures in
admiration
of their coherent modernist style, the project was not without its
opponents.
Numerous critics have charged that the Mission 66 program "overbuilt"
many
national parks with structures, roads, trails, etc. In many
national
parks, the development plans of Mission 66 gave rise to a popular
wilderness
movement that culminated in the Wilderness Act (1964).
Echo Park [Dinosaur
National
Monument] Dam
Bibliography
on Echo Park Dam Controversy
Coffee
Table Books: In attempt to rouse public opposition to the Echo Park
Dam, the Sierra Club published a large
format
book of photos of the monument, entitled This is Dinosaur and
edited
by prominent western novelist Wallace Stegner. The format proved
enormously popular, helping environmentalists head off the dam project,
providing a source of income for various organizations in coming
decades,
and stimulating an explosion in the art of nature photography in the
United
States.
DDT
History
of DDT in North America
POPS
[Persistent Organic Pollutants]
North
American Water and Power Alliance [NAWPA]
Tennessee Valley
Authority
[see sect. 2c, above]
Tellico
Dam Controversy
History of
Vonore,
TN
Snail
Darter Case
Publication of A
Sand County
Almanac
"Wild Kingdom"
[Television
Program]
Museum
of Broadcast Communications History
Cuyahoga
River Fire [1969]
Earth
Day, 1970
Earth Day,
by Gaylord Nelson
Publication
of Silent Spring
Publication
of The Population Bomb
Publication
of Our Stolen Future
Santa
Barbara Oil Spill
Mineral King Controversy
Mineral
King Collection
Environmental
Justice Movement
Principles
of Environmental Justice [National People of Color
Environmental
Leadership Summit]
Three Mile Island
Accident
American
Experience [PBS]
U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Report
Timeline/Events
Love Canal
Brief
History
University
of Buffalo Collections
Sagebrush
Rebellion
Sagebrush
Rebellion Collection [UN-Reno]
Sagebrush
Rebellion Collection [Col-Denver]
Yellowstone Fires of
1988 [idahonews.com]
National
Geographic on the fires
Spotted
Owl Controversy
Ecotage
Times Beach
Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill
Long-Term
Impacts
Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
Fresh
Kills Landfill
6a.
Notable Sites and Regions
Great
Dismal Swamp (Virginia-North Carolina)
Androscoggin
River (Maine-New Hampshire)
Jackson
Hole (Wyoming)
Middle
Rio Grande Basin (New Mexico-Texas)
Flint
Hills (Kansas)
Konza
Prairie
Adirondack
Mountains (New York)
Adirondack
Journal Links
Adirondack
Museum
Outer
Banks (North Carolina)
Great
Smoky Mountains (Tennessee-North Carolina)
Everglades
(Florida)
Reclaiming
the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History [Library of
Congress]
Online
Guide
Yosemite
(California)
Yosemite
Documents
Olmsted's
Yosemite Report
Yellowstone
(Wyoming)
Grand
Canyon (Arizona)
Dinosaur
National Monument (Utah)
Utah
History Encyclopedia
Big
Thicket (Texas)
The
"Raft" (Red River-Texas)
Photos
Indiana
Dunes (Indiana)
Isle
Royale (Michigan)
Niagara
Falls (New York State)
History
Channel Documentary
Walden
Pond (Massachusetts)
Thoreau's Cabin (Part1; Part
2)
Mount
Ktaadn [Katahdin] (Maine)
Mount
Rainier (Washington State)
Biltmore
Forest (North Carolina)
Biltmore
Forest School Photos
Okefenokee
Swamp (Georgia-Florida)
Online
Natural and Cultural History Guide
Denali
[Mount McKinley] (Alaska)
Chesapeake
Bay (Virginia-Maryland)
Online
Natural and Cultural History Guide
Mount
St. Helens (Wasington State)
National
Monument
USGS
Site
Death
Valley (California)
Death
Valley National Park
Death
Valley 49ers
Imperial
Valley (California)
Salton
Sea Authority
Imperial
Irrigation District
Pioneers
Park Museum
Central
Valley (California)
Central
Valley Project History [Board of Reclamation]
Owens
Valley (California)
History
of the Owens Valley [Owens Valley Committee]
Owens
Valley Land Grab
owensvalleyhistory.com
Columbia
River Gorge (Washington State/Oregon)
A
Changing
Columbia River Basin
Center for Columbia River
History
Historic
Columbia River Gorge [NPS]
Petrified
Forest (Arizona)
Kings
Canyon (California)
Longleaf
Pine-Wiregrass (Georgia, esp.)
Online
Natural and Cultural History Guide
Hanford
Reservation (Washington State)
Newspaper
Articles
Pollution
and Safety Issues
Los
Alamos
(New Mexico)
LANL
History
Los
Alamos Historical Museum
Manhattan
Project Heritage Preservation Association
Oak
Ridge (Tennessee)
Manhattan
Project Heritage Preservation Association
California Desert
Death Valley
National Park
Joshua Tree
National Park
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7.
Academic Organizations and Collections
See also Library of
Congress
and National Agricultural Library collections, under Federal
Agencies
-- History and Collections, above.
Environmental
History on the Internet [Cal-Berkeley] -- An outstanding collection
of resources.
Environmental
History [Academic Info] -- Another good collection of on-line
resources.
Environmental
History: A Guide to Research and Resources on the Web [U. of
Colorado-Colorado
Springs]
Repositories
of Primary Sources: Western United States and Canada
American
Environmental Photographs [U. of Chicago]
Biodiversity
Organizations, Centers, Associations, Institutes
Environmental
History -- Explore the Field [Cal-Berkeley]
Carbon
Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Northern
Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Great
Lakes Science Center
Forest
History Society [Duke University]
Oral
History Program
Secondary
Bibliography
Archives
US
Forest Service History Collections
American
Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
Environmental
History [scholarly journal]
Environmental
History online at the History
Cooperative [subscription site, check with your library]
H-Environment
Home Page
Environmental
History Journals [Tables of Contents]
Nature
Transformed: The Environment in American History
Native
Americans and the Land
Wilderness
and American Identity
The
Uses of the Land
Political
Ecology Society [U. of Arizona]
Journal
of Political Ecology [scholarly e-journal]
Environment
and History [U.K. journal]
Organization
of American Historians (OAH) Magazine of History
(special
issue on Environmental History)
European Environmental
History
[scholarly journal]
Center
for World Environmental History [Univ. of Sussex -- U.K.]
European
Society for Environmental History
University
of Minnesota Forestry Library
AHRB
Research Centre for Environmental History [Scotland]
Association
for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Interdisciplinary
Studies in Literature and the Environment
European
Society for Environmental History
Thoreau Institute
Research
Collections
National
Council for Science and the Environment
The
American West, Academic Info
WestWeb:
Harvesting the West [CUNY Library]
Conservation &
Ecology
[scholarly e- journal]
Environmental
History Links, from Carnegie-Mellon
Environmental
History on the Web [U. of San Diego History Dept.]
Environmental
History of Florida [U. of Florida Libraries]
Garden
and Forest in Making of America (U. Michigan)
Historical
Publications of the AES
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8.
Major U.S. Environmental Legislation
Homestead
Act (1862)
Text
Yellowstone
Act
Adirondack
Forest Preserve
Adirondack
Journal
Adirondack
Museum
Text
of NY State Constitution
Yosemite
Act
Desert
Land Act (1871)
Timber
Culture Act (1873)
Other
Government Documents
Forest
Reserve Act (1891)
Other
Government Documents
Forest
Management Act (1897)
River and Harbor Act
(1899)
Newlands
Act (1902)
Antiquities
Act (1906)
Inland Waterways
Commission
(1907)
National Park Service
Act (1916)
Migratory Bird Treaty
Act (1918)
Tennessee Valley
Authority
(1933)
Civilian
Conservation Corps (1933)
National
Association of CCC Alumni
Taylor
Grazing Act (1934)
Text
Soil Conservation Act
(1935)
Omnibus Flood Control
Act (1936)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service
(1940)
Bureau of Land
Management Established
(1946)
Multiple-Use Sustained
Yield
Act (1960)
Endangered
Species Act (1966/1973)
Full Text
History
of the Endangered Species Act
Clean
Air Act (1963/1970)
National Trails Act
(1968)
National Wild and
Scenic Rivers
Act (1968)
National Environmental
Policy
Act (1970)
Clean Water Act (1972)
Full Text
Federal Environmental
Pesticide
Control Act (1972)
Wilderness Act (1974)
Full
Text
of the Wilderness Act
Definition
of "Wilderness"
Energy Policy and
Conservation
Act (1975)
Federal
Land Policy and Management Act (1976)
Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation Act (1977)
"Superfund" Act (1980) |
9.
Other Sources
Ecology
and Environmental Links, from Ecotopia
Heritage Research
Center [Research
consultants for environmental lawsuits]
Agricultural
History Links
Native
Americans and the Environment
"American
Indians and the Natural World"
(online
exhibit from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History"
Nature
Transformed: The Environment in American History [A TeacherServe
project
of the National Humanities Center]
Native
Americans and the Land
Wilderness
and American Identity
The
Use of the Land
Cities
and Suburbs
The
Roots of Preservation
Environmental
Heroes [globalstewards.org]
This
Day in Environmental History ["Ecobeetle"]
Ecology
Hall of Fame [Ecotopia USA]
History
of the Environmental Movement
History
of Logging in Oregon
Pacific
Northwest Logging History
PBS
- New Perspectives on THE WEST
The United States:
Environmental
History
Environmental
Movement Timeline
Environmental
History Timeline
Environmental
Protection Timeline [Wilderness Society -- PDF]
Environmental
History Timeline [Wildglobe.com]
Documentary Chronology of Selected Events in
the Development of the American Conservation Movement, 1847-1920
[Library of Congress]
1847-1871
| 1872-1889
| 1890-1900
| 1901-1907
| 1908-1911
| 1912-1920
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