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Chronological list of titles

1861: Lives of the Engineers 1862: Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science 1863: The Engineer’s Pocket Remembrancer 1864: Testimonies Concerning Slavery 1865: The Grammar of Ornament 1866: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Midwifery 1867: Paul Clifford 1868: Scientific Amusements for Young People 1869: The Microscope 1870: Le Ciel 1871: Report on the Sale of Bad Meat in Boston 1872: The Subterranean World 1873: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism 1874: Statistical Atlas of the United States Based on the Results of the Ninth Census 1875: The Pennsylvania Railroad 1876: “Researches in Telephony” 1877: History of […]

Alphabetical list of titles

AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism (1988) Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers (1974) The Airport (1944) Alaska Crude (1977) All About Tea (1935) Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman (1995) Arabian Oil (1949) Are Our Industrial Leaders Efficiently Trained? (1901) The Art and Practice of Silver Printing (1888) Art and Socialism (1884) The Beaver (1927) A Book of Samples of Papers Manufactured to Print Properly All Kinds of Illustrations (1922) The Book of the Homeless (1916) Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science (1862) Boston Inner Belt Expressway, I-695 in Boston Brookline & […]

Thank You!

Over the last 150 days, we’ve tried to show what the MIT Libraries collection is really like. We’ve covered just about everything, it seems, from the wonders of electricity to proper computer terminal setups, from children’s books to local history, from the fine arts to physics to outdoor adventure. Today, marking our present year and the year of the MIT Sesquicentennial, we want to thank everyone who had a hand in making this online exhibit possible. And, of course, we want to thank you, our loyal readers. 150 Years in the Stacks Team: Michelle Baildon Patrick Ford Patrick Olson Audrey […]

About this project

Welcome to “150 Years in the Stacks” – a look at MIT through the prism of its library collections. Think of this as a tour through the MIT Libraries’ open stacks and offsite storage areas, with a side trip to its closed-stack rare collections and an occasional glimpse into the vault. The MIT Libraries have been around nearly as long as the Institute itself, and now hold over 3 million printed volumes, another 3 million items in other formats, and over 20 million pages of archival material. It goes without saying that we have some very interesting stuff in there. […]

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Welcome to “150 Years in the Stacks” – a look at MIT through the prism of its library collections. Think of this as a tour through the MIT Libraries’ open stacks and offsite storage areas, with a side trip to its closed-stack rare collections and an occasional glimpse into the vault. The MIT Libraries have been around nearly as long as the Institute itself, and now hold over 3 million printed volumes, plus another 3 million items in other formats. It goes without saying that we have some very interesting stuff. This online exhibit took shape during MIT’s sesquicentennial celebration […]