National Museum of American History Opens Exhibit on “The Norie Marine Atlas and the Guano Trade” (National Museum of American History)

(Source: National Museum of American History) The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will open its new exhibition 'The Norie Marine Atlas and the Guano Trade' Feb. 17 in the Albert H. Small Documents Gallery. On view through January 2017, the exhibition focuses on the effect the seabird guano trade had on American expansion and exploration beginning in the mid-1800s, an effort that employed many of the swiftest and largest of the American clipper ships. Peruvian guano was the first and most important trade commodity used in fertilizers and...