Visual Archives » Arnold Arboretum

peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-12-02

Summary:

"Begun in the 1880s as an adjunct to the Arboretum’s living, library, and herbarium collections, today the Arboretum’s visual resources include over 65,000 items. Digital images, black-and-white and color prints, 35mm slides and their predecessor lantern slides, trace the evolution and management of the Arboretum’s landscape, record individual taxa in the living collections, and capture these same plants growing in their native habitats.

Plant collectors and their expeditions to Eastern Asia are well represented; their images document the people, events, and customs of these exotic lands as well as the flora. There are also images of the people who have curated, studied, propagated, and taken care of the plant collection, herbarium, and library. Photographs of other plant collections, private gardens, and parks located throughout the world round out the collection.

In addition to searching our collections in the Visual Information Access database (VIA), all are welcome to browse these interactive galleries...."

Link:

http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/library/image-collection/

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Tags:

hu.oa oa.harvard.u oa.botany oa.biology oa.images oa.digitization

Date tagged:

12/02/2016, 13:13

Date published:

12/02/2016, 08:13