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Watercolors of Birds and Insects
Collection
Identifier: A2023-08-01
Content Description
This collection is composed of 20 watercolor plates, all which depict various birds except one of insects. The watercolors do not have any artist signatures, but they are distinctly similar to the artwork in The Naturalist’s Library, a series of books edited by William Jardine (1800-1874) and illustrated by Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859) and James Hope Stewart (1791-1863). Minor differences between the plates include the Archives’ plates having a background in color versus the printed...
Dates:
circa 1833-1866
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
Whaling Scenes Album
Collection
Identifier: A2023-12-01
Content Description
The album features pasted-down photographs and ephemera, along with some unpasted materials. Materials consist of two newspaper clippings from 1818, three photographic postcards from the 1900s, three letters between 1908-1923, lists of numbered and identified photographs in the album, and 171 photographs with the majority being of whaling vessels in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The photographs show vessels and occassionally their crew at different New Bedford wharves and in open water....
Dates:
1818 - 1923; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1908
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
William Dandridge Peck Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: A2022-14-01
Content Description
This collection is an 1808 report by William Dandridge Peck to the Massachusetts Agricultural Society regarding his three-year travel in Europe made in preparation of his professorship of Natural History at Harvard University. The report is 21 pages long and handwritten in ink, also including a front and back cover page. Also included in the folder is a small note about library regulations, though the library the note is for is unclear, and a handwritten note with the title of the journal on...
Dates:
1808
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
William G. Dix Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: A2022-16-01
Content Description
This collection is one manuscript, titled "The Ecuador", written by William G. Dix. It is handwritten with some corrections in the same pen, presumably by Dix. The manuscript describes the geography, climate, cities, flora, and fauna of Ecuador.
Dates:
1857
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
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