United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Collection

A collection of mostly ink drawings accumulated by the U.S. Forest Service, containing many originals for US Forest Service Bulletins, Common trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and Alaska trees and shrubs. For additional information see: huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/HIBD/HI-USDA.html Of the 2830 artworks, 2308 have been scanned. The remaining (larger) drawings will be made available as they are photographed and scanned. The images from this collection are available to scientists, researchers and publishers for reproduction at no charge.

If you publish images of any of these drawings, credit:

United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Collection
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

The descriptions of the drawings from the Caralogue of the botanical art collection at the Hunt Institute, Part 6, Plant Portraits, Artists T-Z and Unknown have been divided into 15 pages and arranged in alphabetical order by taxon. 17604 - 17804 Abies, Pinaceae - Alnus, Betulaceae 17805 - 18005 Alnus, Betulaceae - Atriplex, Chenopodiaceae 18006 - 18206 Atriplex, Chenopodiaceae - Carex, Cyperaceae 18207 - 18407 Carex, Cyperaceae - Couroupita, Lecythidaceae 18408 - 18608 Castanopsis, Fagaceae - Couroupita, Lecythidaceae 18609 - 18809 Coursetia, Leguminosae - Euterpe globosa Gaertn., Palmae 18810 - 19010 Exostemma ellipticum Griseb., Rubiaceae - Ilex, Aquifoliaceae 19011 - 19211 Ilex, Aquifoliaceae - Magnolia portoricensis Bello, Magnoliaceae 19212 - 19412 Magnolia splendens Urb., Magnoliaceae - Panicum, Gramineae 19413 - 19613 Panicum, Gramineae - Pithecellobium unguis-cati (L.) Benth., Leguminosae 19614 - 19814 Plagiobothrys, Boraginaceae - Quercus, Fagaceae 19815 - 20015 Quercus, Fagaceae - Ricinus communis L., Euphorbiaceae 20016 - 20216 Robinia, Leguminosae - Sorbus, Rosaceae 20217 - 20417 Sorbus, Rosaceae - Vaccinium uliginosum L., Ericaceae 20418 - 20489 Vaccinium uliginosum L., Ericaceae - Zygadenus, Liliaceae

If you already know the "Accession Number" of a currently available drawing as listed in the Catalogue of the botanical art collection at the Hunt Institute, Part 6, Plant Portraits, Artists T-Z and Unknown you can go directly to that drawing by changing in your browser's "location" window the "Accession Number" and changing the directory number to the first two digits of the "Accession Number." Therefore to see the drawings with the following accession numbers: 6725.0024 6725.0230 6725.1176 6725.1890 You would type these corresponding URLs in the "location" window: huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/USDA/00/6725.0024.jpg huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/USDA/02/6725.0230.jpg huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/USDA/11/6725.1176.jpg huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/USDA/18/6725.1890.jpg

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