This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
The Mosquito War Through Centuries of Humanity
A compact history of mosquitoes from ancient Rome to modern times. It charts their global impact, the rise of control efforts in New Jersey, the shift from whale oil to kerosene, the advent of DDT and its later drawbacks, and the move to organophosphate pesticides as resistance emerged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Polar
Pontine
Rome
New World
Napoleon
Caribbean
Panama
New Jersey
Newark
U.S
Gulf
St. Louis