The manual, written in 1660 by Agostino Mandirola, is in Italian and it is split into three different sections. The sections are dedicated to teaching the audience how to cultivate, multiply, and conserve various types of plants. This work focuses on…
By the time this drawing, produced by the Manning Offices Inc., a landscape design firm, was published in the September 1927 issue of the V.P.I. Bulletin, the original was already hanging in the President's office. A few of the new structures…
the Civil War diary of Alfred Mantor, a corporal (and later sergeant) with C Company of the 27th Massachusetts Infantry. Mantor's diary covers January through April of 1864, shortly before he was killed in action in May. Entries focus on his…
1953 newspaper clipping for an article titled "Blonde Designs, Builds Houses in Marin" from Marin Magazine (Marin County, California) featuring Lois Gottlieb and a colleague reviewing building plans.
Letter (photocopy) from Robert E. Marshak to Richard P. Feynman thanking him for a previous letter from a conference in Kyoto, Japan, probably referring to Feynman's August 17, 1985 letter acknowledging the contributions of Feynman, Marshak, E. C.…
Affidavit filled out by H. Halban of the National Research Council of Canada (Montreal Laboratory) for Robert E. Marshak for the Selective Service System in 1943. Halban lists Marshak's duties as performing "secret war research work in specialized…
Letter dated September 28, 1950, from Robert E. Marshak to J. Robert Oppenheimer discussing new physics reaseach related to π− meson-absorption in hydrogen and deuterium.
Letter dated March 16, 1951, from Robert E. Marshak to J. Robert Oppenheimer discussing two papers, "Photo Meson Production" by University of Rochester physics student, Morton F. Kaplon, and Marshak's "Meson Reactions in Hydrogren and Deuterium."
Letter, dated May 5, 1954, from Robert E. Marshak to Enrico Fermi discussing some problems that Marshak had noticed in regards to lectures that they were giving at "Les Houches", which is probably a reference to École de Physique des Houches (the…
Letter, dated May 17, 1957, from Robert E. Marshak to Enrico Fermi about a previous letter from Fermi dated May 11, 1954. Marshak is discussing lecture topics for a future conference.
Telegram dated February 20, 1967, from Ruth and Robert E. Marshak to Kitty Oppenheimer offering condolences for the passing of her husband J. Robert Oppenheimer.