PA Photos and Documents

This collection of correspondence contains approximately 7,000+ handwritten and typed letters sent from more than 900 individuals to the American Entomological Society (AES), founded in 1859 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The …

Album compiled in the 1870s by English artist and sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins containing prints, photographs, drawings, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings related to Hawkins and his work. The album includes …

This collection consists of black and white photographs taken circa 1930 of various tree species found in the Delaware Valley and Maryland that were assembled by the Academy of Natural …

This collection contains sixty-four large scientific illustrations used by Joseph Leidy while teaching zoology at the University of Pennsylvania. The diagrams depict microorganisms and invertebrates namely protozoa, mollusks, annelids, crustacea …

This collection consists of pencil and watercolor drawings, hand-colored plates of North American mollusks and other animals, and early experimental etchings produced by Lucy Way Say. The collection also contains …

This collection contains sixty-eight original washes, watercolors, and pen and ink sketches by artists and brothers, Richard Kern and Edward Kern. The illustrations were produced during a United States military …

Bound manuscript volume containing fifty-seven pages of 129 watercolor illustrations of butterflies, moths, caterpillars and chrysalids, beetles, flies, locusts, grasshoppers, and crickets; five drawings of insects with plants; and one …