The Botany Libraries
Collection Names:
Library of the Arnold Arboretum
Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany
Library of the Gray Herbarium
Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames
Oakes Ames Orchid Library
Address:
22 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact:
Lisa DeCesare
Telephone:
617-495-2366
Fax:
617-495-8654
Email:
Repository website URL:
http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/
Description of repository / collection image holdings:
Our collections hold thousands of images. Most images are of botanists and their families, field excursions, plants, and portraits of botanical meetings. The formats include: drawings, paintings, slides, daguerreotypes, stereoscopic slides, glass plate negatives, lantern slides, blue-line prints, transparencies, photographs and oversized prints.
What we have in VIA:
The Archives of the Gray Herbarium daguerreotypes collection is scanned and in VIA. A small group of photographs of Edward Palmer from the Archives of the Gray Herbarium and the Farlow Herbarium Archives have also been scanned and added to VIA.
Copyright and Permissions:
The material in this collection is owned or held by the Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany or by the Library of the Gray Herbarium. Some of the images, text and other content in VIA (collectively, the "Content") is protected by copyright law. In some cases, the copyright is owned by other parties, and Harvard is making the Content available to you under license or under the fair use doctrine.
The Content is provided for your personal, noncommercial teaching and research use. You may not copy, publish, post, distribute, display, perform, or otherwise make available any of the Content protected by copyright, except as may be permitted under fair use or another copyright law exemption. If you wish to make any such use of the Content, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder, which may be Harvard or another party. Please contact the archivist, Lisa DeCesare.
Some of the Content may be subject to other restrictions - for example, those imposed by a license agreement. You must comply with any other restrictions and terms of use that are identified in connection with particular Content.
In accessing VIA, you agree to use the Content only in accordance with copyright law and any other identified restrictions, and you assume all liability for any copyright infringement caused by your use. Some information on copyright law and fair use for members of the Harvard community can be found at:
http://ogc.harvard.edu/copyright_docs/copyright_and_fair_use.php