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Photography and Film

  • Skunk with prey in mouth
  • Photography storage boxes

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

  • Pages from the journal of William Stimpson
  • Drawing of Mushroom by Herman Pepoon
  • Drawing of Nautilus in William Stimpson's Journal

The Academy 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.  Prominent papers include those of Edward G. Howe, a science teacher who was a strong proponent of school field trips, H. S. Pepoon’s hand drawn maps, and the personal papers of William Stimpson.

 

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