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Catherine McNeur

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The Mischievous Morris Sisters

Two gifted sisters in Philadelphia helped to transform early American science.

by Catherine McNeur via American Heritage on December 17, 2023

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A pile of trash at a landfill behind a member of the Army Corps of Engineers.

The History of New York, Told Through Its Trash

In 1948, the landfill at Fresh Kills was marketed to Staten Island as a stopgap measure. No one guessed that it would remain open for more than half a century.

by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein via The New Yorker on April 24, 2021

A pile of trash on the street in New York, 1911.

The Pig Apple

The story of the thousands of free-range pigs who managed New York’s waste in the 1800s.

via BackStory on August 4, 2016

The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants With Whiskey Runoff

Vendors hawked the swill as “Pure Country Milk.”

by Tyler Moss via Atlas Obscura on November 27, 2017

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