Grad Research: Deep in the Wonder Book of Knowledge

Check out this great post from our very own Rebecca Onion on her summer research at Princeton. Here's a taste:

I just wound up three weeks doing research at the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton, looking at a trove of books about science and industry from the 1920s and 1930s. (Thank you, Friends of the Princeton University Library, for your support.) I thought I might post a version of the brown-bag talk I gave to the Friends of the Library, which gave a more comprehensive overview of the books I saw, but I am, once again, thwarted by copyright (the talk includes a ton of images, some of which are a decade too young to be in the public domain).So I thought I might instead show off my favorite find, which happens to have been published in 1921:  Henry Chase Hill’s wild encyclopedia The Wonder Book of Knowledge, ambitiously subtitled “The Marvels of Modern Industry and Invention, the Interesting Stories of Common Things, the Mysterious Processes of Nature Simply Explained,” and boasting 700 illustrations.

Read the full post at Rebecca's excellent blog, Songbirds and Satellites, here.