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Natural history

Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection, Cornell University Library

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Beautiful Birds traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques — from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography — ...


Fuertes Illustrations Collection

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Includes a database with 2500 of these illustrations, as well as an exhibit based on the journal he kept during the 1899 Harriman Alaska expedition.


Louis Agassiz Fuertes and the Harriman Alaska Expedition

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Presents selections from a journal that American illustrator Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) kept during an expedition along the Alaskan coast funded by American financier Edward Henry Harriman ( ...


Natural Resources

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Illinois Harvest is a free public gateway combining search, aggregation, and discovery services. We provide organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, ...


South Central China and Tibet: The Hotspot of Diversity

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For over a century, Arboretum staff have explored and documented the natural and cultural resources of Asia. In 1924, a three-year expedition departed for one of the most unusual areas on earth—the ...


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