Archives
Audio Visual
The Academy photography collection includes thousands of still photos and more than 1,300 motion pictures representing some of the earliest natural history photography. Many were made by Academy scientists and local naturalists who were using the then new technology to study the Chicago Wilderness region. Many of their images record now lost landscapes of the Midwest.
Manuscripts and Institutional Archives
The Academy’s archives contain more than 100 linear feet of manuscripts and 400 linear feet of institutional records and ephemera including field journals, maps and drawings, and publications. The collection is strongly focused on the Midwest and documents local naturalists’ studies of the region’s ecosystems, flora, and fauna. Types of materials include letters and personal correspondence, field notes, maps, drawings, research files and notes, printed materials, scrapbooks, photographs, meeting minutes, calendars, ephemera, and other materials.
Finding aids are available for the manuscript collections. The following is a list of the manuscript collections. Please contact the Collections Department to request additional information or to schedule an appointment to visit the archives.
Manuscript Collection Name |
Finding Aid(PDF opens in new window) |
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Andrews Family Papers (Edmund Andrews, M.D., Irene D. Andrews, and Edward W. Andrews, IV) | Andrews Family Finding Aid |
Elizabeth E. Atwater Papers | Elizabeth E. Atwater Finding Aid |
Laura Brodie Papers | Laura Brodie Finding Aid |
Charles B. Cory Papers | (in process) |
William C. Davidson, U.S.N. Papers | William C. Davidson Finding Aid |
Francis S. Dayton Papers | Francis S. Dayton Finding Aid |
Ruthven Deane Papers | Ruthven Deane Finding Aid |
William Dreuth Papers | William Dreuth Finding Aid |
C.W.G. Eifrig Papers | C.W.G. Eifrig Finding Aid |
Ralph M. Eiseman Papers | Ralph M. Eiseman Finding Aid |
Benjamin T. Gault Papers | Benjamin T. Gault Finding Aid |
Gregory Brothers Papers (Stephen S. Gregory, Jr. and Arthur Tappan Gregory) | Gregory Brothers Finding Aid |
Edward G. Howe Papers | Edward G. Howe Finding Aid |
Roger F. Howe Papers | Roger F. Howe Finding Aid |
Robert Kennicott Papers | Robert Kennicott Finding Aid |
Komarek Family Papers (Betty Komarek, Edwin V. Komarek, Sr., Roy V. Komarek) | (in process) |
William I. Lyon Papers | William I. Lyon Papers Finding Aid |
J. de Navarre Macomb, Jr. Papers | J. de Navarre Macomb, Jr. Finding Aid |
Margaret Morse Nice Papers | Margaret Morse Nice Finding Aid |
Ida E.S. Noyes Papers | Ida E.S. Noyes Finding Aid |
Kathryn Olmstead Papers | (in process) |
Amanda Parelius Papers | Amanda Parelius Finding Aid |
Herman S. Pepoon Papers | Herman S. Pepoon Finding Aid |
Donald T. Ries Papers | Donald T. Ries Finding Aid |
Robert Ridgway Papers | (in process) |
Harry D. Sicher Papers | Harry D. Sicher Finding Aid |
Winnifred Smith Papers | (in process) |
William Stimpson Papers | William Stimpson Finding Aid |
Reuben M. Strong Papers | (in process) |
Leon F. Urbain Papers | Leon F. Urbain Finding Aid |