They may not be used for commercial purposes without the consent of the contributor. All persons or firms wishing to purchase slides for use other than optical projection for nonprofit educational purposes must obtain permission to do so from the original photographers. The Museum has an extensive collection of black and white negatives and prints, color transparencies and lantern slides, over 1,000,000, covering a variety of subjects in the field of natural science. In addition, A Catalog of Color Slides is available from the Museum Department of Library Services. The Museum Photo Library is open daily for personal selection of photographs.
Selection is made by the staff on mail requests.
Prepayment or a purchase order is required before prints can be sent. Color transparencies of the Museum animal habitat groups, other exhibits and specimens, items in the study collection, slides from Museum expeditions and other natural environment slides are included. Over 1150 individual slides of birds, reptiles, and amphibians are available for sale from the Slide Library. Emphasis is on species from eastern North America, but some bird slides depict species from other localities. Write or call for current listing and order form or go to Web site.