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The digitization projects from which the images on this page were generated were generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
It is the goal of the Research Division to make our collections available to as wide an audience as possible. By digitizing pieces of our collections, we provide free access to materials that otherwise would not leave the Garden grounds, or are generally available to a select audience.
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Illustration of Rosa gallica from Traité des arbrisseaux et des arbustes cultivés en France et en pleine by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire.
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Staff:
The lab is maintained and operated by the following staff members:
Projects:
- An Illustrated History of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1800-1920)
- Funded by a Missouri State Library Digital Imaging Grant. This site features over 500 images and metadata from our Archive, many from the late 1800's and early 1900's. These images include buildings on the Garden grounds, visitors, early views of St. Louis and even botanical expeditions. A timeline was also written to give users an overview of why the Garden was created and how it has grown since.
- Online at http://www.mobot.org/mobot/archives/.
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Image of Agave group, looking east from display greenhouse. Main greenhouse is on left. June 1905. |
- Rare Books from the MBG Library
- Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this collaborative project will result in a large database of rare botanical literature. We have selected beautifully illustrated volumes from our collection that will appeal to botanists, art historians, and anyone who enjoys plants. This site includes author biographies, descriptions of the books, and current botanical names (when available).
- Online at http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/.
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Illustration of Euphorbia punicea from Icones pictae plantarum rariorum by James Edward Smith. |
- Preserving and Digitizing Plant Images: Linking Plant Images and Databases for Public Access
- This two year project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, was successfully completed in November, 2000, but is still in operation. The purpose of our project was to link plant images with their associated data in TROPICOS and make the images and data available online. By doing this, we have created a rich repository of over 35,000 plant images that continues to grow daily.
- Online at http://www.mobot.org/mobot/imls/.
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Type specimen: Dracula nosferatu Luer & R. Escobar
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Digitized Slide Collections:
- Dr. Alwyn H. Gentry, Ph.D.
- The Alwyn Gentry slide collection was the first project undertaken by the Lab’s IMLS Project. The original images were duplicated, the originals were placed in cold storage and the duplicates used as working images. The online images were all output in JPG format. The collection contains over 6,000 images of mainly neotropical plants from almost all plant families, but focusing on the Bignoniaceae Family. About 60% of the slides are vouchered, which means there is a dried herbarium specimen with collection data made for the live plant on the slide. These images are linked to specific specimen data in the TROPICOS database.
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The inflorescence of Gomphrena officinalis.
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Morea villosa from Piletberg, South Africa.
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- Dr. Tom Croat, Ph.D.
- Over 1,500 slides of the Araceae family, of which Dr. Tom Croat of the Missouri Botanical Garden is an expert, were placed online. This was a very complete slide collection and only the best images were selected of almost every species of neotropical Araceae. The type specimens of Araceae named by Dr. Croat were also processed for imaging. |
Infructescence of Anthurium lancetillense.
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- Edgar Dennison
- 635 slides of plants of Missouri and surrounding Midwest states taken by Edgar Denison, a local amateur botanist, have been placed online. These slides were in very poor condition, some with serious mold problems. They were cleaned the best way possible, duplicated, and the originals placed in cold storage. The duplicates were used as working slides. |
Rosa setigera flowers from Daniel Boone Memorial Forest, 1974.
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Flowers of Passiflora nitida.
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Heliconia inflorescence.
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Mutisia magnifica, a spectacular 'daisy' from the Andes of Southern Ecuador described by Ulloa and Jørgensen..
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Equipment:
- Computers:
- (2) G3 Macs - 400 MHz, 512 MB RAM
- (6) G4 Macs - 500 MHz, 768 MB RAM
- (3) Windows 2000 PCs - 400 MHz, 256 MB RAM
- Scanners:
- Epson Expression 1680 Professional with FireWire
- (2) Nikon LS-2000 slide scanner with SF-200 autofeeder
- Digital Cameras and equipment:
- BetterLight workstation
- BetterLight Super 6K digital scanning back
- Mamiya RZ67 camera body
- 90mm Mamiya lens
- Kaiser copy stand
- Kaiser Scando workstation
- Kaiser Scando dyan A+ digital scanning camera
- 60mm Nikkor lens
- Beseler copy stand
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