The Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (CAS/PNNM) is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board in support of a project with CAS/PNNM’s audiovisual collection. The one-year grant will focus on digitally imaging 500 historic glass plate negatives illustrating the species and environment in the Chicago region between 1898 and 1940. CAS/PNNM’s natural history collections and archives date from the 1830s to the present, providing baseline data for the Midwest / Western Great Lakes region vital to biodiversity studies. Digital products from this grant project will be made available online, including Chicago Collections Consortium’s Explore portal and Internet Archive. To learn more about CAS/PNNM’s collections, please visit our website at http://www.naturemuseum.org/the-museum/collections. -- Dawn Roberts | Director of Collections The Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum 2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, IL 60614 | www.naturemuseum.org Collections Facility and Office 4001 N Ravenswood Avenue, suite 201, Chicago, IL 60613 | 773-755-5125 *The Urban Gateway to Nature and Science* ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).