Summary: | Consists of approximately 4,500 digitized photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States. Collection was selected from photographs taken by faculty, staff, and students in the Department of Botany at the University of Chicago between 1891 and 1936. Images represent a wide range of American topography, forestation, aridity, shifting coastal dune complexes, and watercourses. Also includes images of University of Chicago botanists as they conducted field research. Original material is housed in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Chicago Library.
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