Copyright Information

• Photograph of Rachel Carson by Shirley A. Briggs ©1949.
• Photograph of Rachel Carson by Harris and Ewing Studio.
• Photograph of Rachel Carson at Woods Hole by Edwin Gray.
• Rachel Carson at her cottage in Maine, summer 1961, Photo by Bob Hines.
• All photographs are courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven, CT., and the Lear/Carson Collection, Special Collections, Connecticut College, New London, Ct. Other photograph collections include The Dorothy Freeman Collection, Ladd Library, Bates College.
• Photograph of Linda Lear by John Ruznak ©1997.

• Opening quote: Rachel Carson, "The Real World Around Us." 1954. from Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson, edited by Linda Lear, Beacon Press ©1998.
• Biography of Rachel Carson by Linda Lear ©2000.
• All requests for permission to quote or to otherwise use Carson's words from any source must be secured from Ms. Frances Collin, Trustee of the Estate of Rachel Carson. She is the only person who can give permission. She can be contacted at P.O. Box 33, Wayne, PA. 19087 -9998.

• Pen and ink drawings by Howard Frech for Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson, Simon&Schuster; ©1941.
• Line drawings by Louis and Lois Darling for Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Houghton Mifflin Co. Inc. ©1962.
• Line drawings by Bob Hines for Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel L. Carson, TT Dutton ©1999.

All photographs and illustrations used here
by permission of copyright holder.

Mark Tomlinson, Carson scholar and educator, contributed text and graphics from a previous version of this webpage.
Thanks to him and K-M Associates.

The Rachel Carson Website is copyrighted by Linda Lear. Any request for use of text or material on this site must be made in writing and used by permission only. It is unlawful to use any part of this website, text, images and content as outlined in the 1988 Digital Millenium Act without written permission.
©2000 Linda Lear.

All requests for permission to quote or to otherwise use Carson's words from any source must be secured from Ms. Frances Collin, Trustee of the Estate of Rachel Carson. She is the only person who can give permission. She can be contacted at P.O. Box 33, Wayne, PA. 19087 -9998.