Library and Archives - Arnold Arboretum
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Library and Archives - Arnold Arboretum
Introduction to the Horticultural Library and Archives
The Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library and Archives is a specialized research collection devoted to the study of temperate woody plants. We collect works on botany, horticulture, floras, landscape studies, garden history, and dendrology. The library stewards more than 40,000 volumes in Jamaica Plain and at the Harvard Book Depository. The Visual Image Collection contains more than 80,000 photographs, including a significant historical image collection. The Archive Collection documents the Arboretum’s history and is a repository for nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century horticultural and botanical collections.
Sections
Travel permit issued for Wilson and Walter Reaves Zappey. The permit includes permission to carry hunting guns and cartridges. Ichang, 1908. All photographs by Ernest Henry Wilson. Travel documents digitized by Library Digitial Initiative (LDI), Harvard University Library. Copyright © 2015, President and Fellows of Harvard College, Arnold Arboretum Archives; all rights reserved.
An exhibit of archival materials having to do with the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection.
Archives of the Arnold Arboretum.
A rare 1934 autochrome lantern slide view of Rhododendron Dell.
Archives of the Arnold Arboretum.
Students seated at the large table in the Reading Room examining archival materials. Classes from Harvard and other local colleges, universities, and high schools, use the Library and Archive resources.
Photograph by Sheila Connor, October 23, 2007.
A botanical illustration of eastern white pine
Pinus strobus
from Andre Michaux’s
North American Sylva
.
Archives of the Arnold Arboretum.
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Introduction to the Horticultural Library and Archives
The Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library and Archives is a specialized research collection devoted to the study of temperate woody plants. We collect works on botany, horticulture, floras, landscape studies, garden history, and dendrology. The library stewards more than 40,000 volumes in Jamaica Plain and at the Harvard Book Depository. The Visual Image Collection contains more than 80,000 photographs, including a significant historical image collection. The Archive Collection documents the Arboretum’s history and is a repository for nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century horticultural and botanical collections.
Sections
Travel permit issued for Wilson and Walter Reaves Zappey. The permit includes permission to carry hunting guns and cartridges. Ichang, 1908. All photographs by Ernest Henry Wilson. Travel documents digitized by Library Digitial Initiative (LDI), Harvard University Library. Copyright © 2015, President and Fellows of Harvard College, Arnold Arboretum Archives; all rights reserved.
An exhibit of archival materials having to do with the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection.
Archives of the Arnold Arboretum.
A rare 1934 autochrome lantern slide view of Rhododendron Dell.
Archives of the Arnold Arboretum.
Students seated at the large table in the Reading Room examining archival materials. Classes from Harvard and other local colleges, universities, and high schools, use the Library and Archive resources.
Photograph by Sheila Connor, October 23, 2007.
A botanical illustration of eastern white pine
Pinus strobus
from Andre Michaux’s
North American Sylva
.
Archives of the Arnold Arboretum.
Related Stories
The Arnold Arboretum from the Air
History
Women of the Arnold Arboretum, Part 1
Library and Archives
Women of the Arnold Arboretum, Part 2
History
Early Indigenous Land Use
History
No article selected.