Pressed leaf and flower from the 1923 biology notebook of Rosella Sprague Ames (class of 1926).

The camera lucida is an optical device patented in 1806 as a drawing aid by artists and scientists. Through a combination of a prism and half-silvered mirror, the artist sees the subject being viewed superimposed on the ...

A biology class learning about the anatomy of a shark, 1980.

Three students dissecting a shark during biology lab, 1957.

"This is our table in Zoology Lab at work sketching a fish." (Mary Lyon Hall, 1914) 1. Amelia Goold, 2. Charlotte Greene (Miss Carternulls friend), 3. Mary Faris, 4. Virginia Davis