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Anthropometric approaches to health and nutrition thrived in the twentieth century. Cookbooks and home economics manuals, including this volume (used as a high school textbook from 1964 to 1978 [“Alberta School”]), contained graphs highlighting…

Tunnel Book. 18.5 × 23 × 1.5 cm (closed).
N 7433.4 M3 A6 D632 1998

Pop-Up Book. 17 x 16.5 cm.
N 7433.4 Y84 A6 F75 2009

Scroll. 230 cm x 17.5 cm (opened).
N 7433.3 M646 2000 folio

Codex. 13 x 28 x 1.5 cm at spine; in box 31 x 24 x 15 cm.
N 7433.4 C56 A6 A298 1995

In addition to its standard nutritional information, this book provides detailed instructions on how students might carry out experiments on rats in the classroom, feeding them deficient diets and observing the results. Students might also chloroform…

The domestic science movement, which arose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and encouraged women to apply scientific knowledge to their household work, is exemplified by this American textbook. This edition was used at the…

Photograph of University of Alberta students at the sophomore dance.

Photograph of University of Alberta's hockey team player Don Stanley.