INHS Editor's Image Collection
The INHS Editor's Image Collection is a collection of >20,000 images used in the production of the publications of INHS and its predecessors, and contains images created from 1869 through 2008. The INHS Editor's Image Database contains descriptive metadata for the images inclluding topics, artists/photographers, locations, and dates. Records may include links to digitized versions of the published image in Biodiversity Heritage Library or elsewhere. Most of the images are held by INHS in the Forbes Natural History Building, About 600 have been scanned, and can be browsed in Box. For assistance with the database or access to the collection, please contact the Illinois Natural History Survey.
Two notable subcollections are held by University Library:
- Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History oil sketches of Illinois fishes: painting, 1878-1898
Oil sketches of Illinois fishes used in preparation of fish casts created by the State Laboratory of Natural History for the Illinois State Museum.
See the finding aid for detailed metadata describing individual paintings. - Illustrations for the Fishes of Illinois: painting 1892-1913
Illustrations by Lydia M. (Hart) Green, Charlotte M. Pinkerton, and others created for publication in Forbes and Richardson's The Fishes of Illinois (1st edition 1908, 2nd edition 1919).
See the finding aid for metadata describing individual images in the collection.
An Excel export from the FileMaker database maintained by the Illinois Natural History Survey is available in Box.
In database records, the Image ID corresponds to item number in the physical collection, also used as the file name of scanned items.
For access to physical collection, or re-use permissions, contact the Illinois Natural History Survey
INHS Staff Photo Files
A collection of photos of INHS staff are filed alphabetically by staff last name in the Forbes Natural History Building.
Please contact the Illinois Natural History Survey with questions about staff photos.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Biodiversity Heritage Library imagesA guide to finding images in the Biodiversity Heritage Library flickr which has more than 300,000 plates.
Also includes tips for finding images using the BHL catalog search.