SPPL's August 2012 Government Publications Display
A list of the contents and related resources
1790 Cenus: Return of the whole number of persons within the several districts of the United States
Census, 1791 (reprint)
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/1790.html
Related resources:
Other years of Census of Population & Housing: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.html
Other Census products: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/titles.html
Historical Census Browser from the U of VA: http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/
Social Explorer: http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx
First Jobs of College Women: Report of Women Graduates, Class of 1957
Department of Labor, Women's Bureau, 1959
http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/publications/women/b0268_dolwb_1959.pdf
Related resources:
History of Women and Education at the National Women's History Museum: http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/education/introduction.html
Women at Work, March 2011 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2011/women/
History of Women in Industry at the National Women's History Museum: http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/industry/womenindustry_intro.html
A Century of Change: The U.S. Labor Force 1950-2050:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/05/art2full.pdf
Free Homesteads for All Americans: The Homestead Act of 1862
By Paul W. Gates
Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962.
Homestead Act of 1862: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=31
Related resources:
Homestead Act at the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Homestead.html
National Expansion and Reform 1815-1860 digital collections at the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/topics/content.php?subcat=7
History of the American West 1860-1920 at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html
Home Fallout Shelter: Snack Bar - Basement Location, Plan D
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 1980
http://archive.org/details/HomeFalloutShelterSnackBarBasementLocationPlanD
Related resources:
Items created by the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) at Archives.org. Includes videos. http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Federal%20Civil%20Defense%20Administration%22
Civil Defense Reports and Studies at the FEMA website. (The FCDA became part of FEMA.) http://www.lrc.fema.gov/civil_defense.html
Community Fallout Shelter Tours at the Civil Defense Museum: http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/cdmuseum2/commun.html
International Global Positioning System Network for Space Science Missions
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1994
Related resources:
International GNSS Service (Formerly the International GPS Service): http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/
Official U.S. Government Information about the Global Positioning System (GPS) and Related Topics: http://www.gps.gov/
GPS in Space and the Vision of Space Exploration (power point presentation, 2006): http://www.gps.gov/multimedia/presentations/2006/2006-06-india/pace.pdf
Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, Hearings Before the House Select Committee on Assassinations
August 1978
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=95653&relPageId=1
Related resources:
MLK Assassination Documents (full-text under Document View): http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/MLK_Assassination_Documents
MLK Assassination Page: http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Martin_Luther_King_Assassination
1968 Exhibit from the MN Historical Society: http://www.the1968exhibit.org/
Assassination Archives and Research Center: http://aarclibrary.org/
The Legal Status of Women in the United States of America: January 1, 1948 Report for Minnesota
United States Department of Labor, Women's Bureau, 1949.
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011418516
Related resources:
Other Bulletins of the Women's Bureau: http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=243&tid
For other titles, search the Hathi Trust (hathitrust.org) for "Bulletin of the Women's Bureau".
Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor: http://www.dol.gov/wb/welcome.html
Law Ungendered: History of the Legal Status of U.S. Women: http://www.mtmercy.edu/law-ungendered-history-legal-status-us-women
A Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States by Professor Cunea: http://wlh.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cunnea-timeline.pdf
Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology
A day by day account of Lincoln's life as could be determined by various sources. Published in recognition of the 150th anniversary of his birth.
An intermittently-updated online version called The Lincoln Log is available here: www.thelincolnlog.org/
Related resources:
Public Papers of the Presidents. Print (in the Nicholson Room) and online: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/ppotpus/
Compilation of Presidential Documents. Online: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=CPD
The American Presidency Project: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
Mars: As Viewed by Mariner 9
NASA, 1976
http://archive.org/details/marsasviewedbyma00unit
Related resources:
Mariner 9 site on NASA.gov: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?MCode=Mariner_09
NASA's Mars Exploration Program: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/
On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet 1958-1978: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4212/contents.html
Mariner 9 Approaching Mars: A Movie!: http://planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2011/3296.html
Caption for photo taken from book:
(1°N, 112°W:IPL 1699/125324)
The shield volcano at Pavonis Mons is about 400 km across and rises more than 20 km above the surrounding plains. Concentric graben occur on the flanks of the shield and in the surrounding plains. The caldera consists of a single large circular depression, 55 km in diameter. - M.H. Carr
NASA: 22nd Semiannual Report to Congress, July1 - Dec 31, 1969
NASA, 1970.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710010545_1971010545.pdf
This is the NASA annual report that includes Apollo 11's landing on the moon.
Related resources:
Most Recent NASA Reports (link to older reports is at the bottom of the page): http://www.nasa.gov/news/reports/index.html
Apollo Program page from NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/index.html
Apollo page at NASA History:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/apollo.html
Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/contents.html
NASA's Mission to Planet Earth: Earth Observing System
NASA, 1993
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19950004521_1995104521.pdf
Related resources:
Earth Observing-1 at NASA: http://eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov/
NASA Science - Earth: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/earth-science/
Earth Observing System (EOS) Project Science Office at NASA: http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Planetary Exploration through Year 2000: Scientific Rational
NASA, 1989
Series here:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?N=0&Ntk=Title&Ntt=%22planetary%20exploration%20through%20year%202000%22&Ntx=mode%20matchall
Related resources:
Chronology of Lunar and Planetary Exploration: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chrono.html
NASA Science: Planets: http://science.nasa.gov/planetary-science/
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): http://www.usgs.gov/
Space Settlements: A Design Study
NASA, 1977
http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/75SummerStudy/s.s.doc.html
"...provides information on space settlement development and education and assists teachers and students in the NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest. The design study was the result of a 10 week program in engineering systems design held at Stanford University and Ames Research Center in the summer of 1975. Participants included professors, technical directors and students in a variety of disciplines from physical science and architecture to engineering and social science. The goal (see preface) was to construct a vision of how people might sustain life in space in a large colony."
Related resources:
NASA's site on the International Space Station: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
NASA's Deep Space Habitat site: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/technology/deep_space_habitat/
NASA's site on Skylab: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/skylab/index.html
Spacesuit Guidebook
NASA, 1991?
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19910009290_1991009290.pdf
Explains the inner working of the late 1980's spacesuit in detail with illustrations.
Related resources:
Evolution of the NASA Spacesuit: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/spacesuit_gallery/
Building the Future Spacesuit: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/appel/ask/issues/45/45s_building_future_spacesuit.html
Spacesuits and Spacewalks: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacesuits/home/clickable_suit_nf.html
The Spoken Word: Recollections of Dryden History, The Early Years
NASA, 2003
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88793main_Monograph.pdf
"Since the founding of the Dryden Flight Research Center History Office in 1996, its staff has conducted nearly a hundred interviews with retired and serving employees. Their recollections represent a unique resource in understanding the development of aerospace technology in the second half of the twentieth century. ... It spans the period between the arrival of Walter Williams and the first group of NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] engineers at Muroc in 1946 and ends with the establishment of NASA in 1958."
Related resources:
Dryden Flight Research Center: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/home/index.html
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) site from the NASA History Program Office. http://history.nasa.gov/naca/
NASA History Program Office: http://history.nasa.gov/index.htm
WRA: A Story of Human Conservation
Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority, 1946
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/japanese_internment/documents/pdf/58.pdf#zoom=100
The War Relocation Authority handled the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Related resources:
War Relocation Authority documents on Hathitrust.org: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?type[]=all&lookfor[]=%22war%20relocation%20authority%22&filter[]=ht_availability%3AFull%20text&use_dismax=1
Check the Database of Japanese-American Refugees at the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/research/japanese-americans/wra.html
The War Relocation Authority & the Incarcerations of Japanese-Americans during WWII from the Truman Library: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/japanese_internment/background.htm
Japanese Relocation and Internment during World War II at the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html
