Portrait Collection

Collection — Box: Oversize Small Collections 6

Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0457

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of single and group portraits of scientists (professional and amatuer), many affiliated with the Academy. When known, Academy affiliation and scientific field of interest is noted (botany, entomology, geology, paleontology, zoology, ichthyology, ornithology, diatoms, etc.). Portraits show scientists in the field and at work as well as posed portraits. Thus far, the collection includes 1680 persons or groups. Formats include photographic prints, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, engravings, etchings, lithographs, lantern slides, film negatives, glass negatives, tintypes, photocopies, and other reproductions. Prints are black and white unless otherwise stated. Signed images are noted.

Dates

c. 1835-1983, undated

Biographical / Historical

The Portrait Collection is an artificial collection compiled by Academy librarians and archivists over a long stretch of time. The photographs, prints, etc., have been culled from numerous accessions and collections already in the archives. Some photographs were requested or transferred with the specific purpose of being added to the collection. The collection was created with continuous accrual in mind. The last addition to the collection seems to have been in the 1980s or early 1990s. The collection is now closed and no new additions will be made.