Rachel Carson: Catalyst of the Environmental Movement

Annotated Bibliography:  Primary Sources

Brown, Abram M. "Industry Overview: Mills from East End." 1906 Pittsburgh Photo Collection. Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of

    Photographs, 1894-1958.  Carnegie Museum of Art  https://collection.cmoa.org/?

    creator=Abram%20M.%20Brown&page=1&perPage=10&view=grid

    Found photograph with factory smoke-filled air of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania downtown in 1906.

Carson, Rachel L. Under the Sea-Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life. Simon & Schuster, 1941.

    Made reference to the book as having been written by Carson, establishing her as a marine

    scientist respected for her studies. 

Carson, Rachel L. "Chincoteague:  A National Wildlife Refuge." Conservation in Action, Number One.  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services,

    US Department of Interior, 1947.

    Ms. Carson was the first editor of a series of Conservation overviews for the various wildlife

refuges around the country and this was her first volume. 

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Carson, Rachel L. The SEA Around Us. Guild Hall, 1953.

    Made reference to the book as having been written by Carson, establishing her as a marine

    scientist respected for her studies. 

Carson, Rachel L. The Edge of the Sea. With Illus. by Bob Hines. Houghton Mifflin, 1955.

    Made reference to the book as having been written by Carson, establishing her as a marine

    scientist respected for her studies. 

Carson, Rachel L. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

    Read this book about Rachel Carson's findings after studying the environmental impacts of wide

    spread spraying of DDT in the 1950's. 

Carson, Rachel. “A Reporter At Large: Silent Spring - Parts 1-3.”  The New Yorker, June 16, 23, and 30, 1962. 

    Images by Emiliano Ponzi. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/06/16/silent-spring-part-1,

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/06/23/silent-spring-part-2, and

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/06/30/silent-spring-part-3.

    Read the material that was presented to the public to gain their support for Carson's book.

    Included illustrations by Emiliano Ponzi that accompanied each article.

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“CBS Reports: The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson.” CBS Reports, season 4, episode 14, CBS, 3 Apr 1963.

    Great history written about Rachel Carson's life and the challenges she faced in publishing

    Silent Spring.  Seeing the Rachel Carson interview by Eric Servereid was very informative.

“DDT is good for me-e-e!” Pennsalt Chemicals DDT products, "Time Magazine", 30 July 1947, Science History Institute,   

     https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/1831ck18w

     Image shows how the Chemical Industry promoted pesticides as safe and widely used.

"DDT," United States Navy Training film, United States Department of Navy - Bureau of Aeronautics, US National Library of

    Medicine, 1944. https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-9200346A-vid

    Watched video and gained valuable information to paraphrase on website.

Disney, Walt. "Walt Disney and the Environmental Movement," Walt Disney Family Museum, Disney Enterprises Inc. 1963, 

    https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/walt-disney-and-environmental-movement

    Interesting to read about Walt Disney and his interest in protecting the environment.

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“History of Pittsburgh.” The Citizen’s Compendium, Pittsburgh, 1920, 

     http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/History_of_Pittsburgh

    Since Rachel Carson grew up outside of Pittsburgh I looked here to see what she was seeing then.​​​​​​​

Lee, John M. "'Silent Spring' Becomes Noisy Summer," New York Times, July 1962.

    Good article on what happened when the book was published.  

"Rachel Carson Collection."  Chatham University Archives and Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System. 1924-1930

    https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/search/dc.title%3A%28rachel%5C%20carson%29?

    f=&islandora_solr_search_navigation=0

    Multiple pictures of Rachel Carson while attending college at Chatham University. 

Simmons, James Stevens (Brig. General). "How Magic is DDT?" The Saturday Evening Post, The Curtis Publishing Company, 1945.

    This article was frequently referenced during my research. It gave an interesting perspective of

    the benefits of DDT and how the agriculture industry and the public benefitted from the wartime

    use of it.

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"Use of DDT,"  The Onslow County news and views, Chapel Hill NC periodical, 13 July 1945

    Article from historical time that gave perspective on people's concern on DDT.