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rachel carson


couldn't help but reel upon discovery of these images in the beinecke rare book & manuscript library. i still have yet to read a silent spring, but it's on the book list!

image 01:
"photograph of rachel carson as a young girl with two dogs sitting on the grass"
image 02: "left: sea lettuce / right: irish moss /animal is leander - common prawn"

images courtesy of yale collection of american literature
& the beinecke rare book & manuscript library