<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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 <a href="http://www.naturemuseum.org/the-museum/collections" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://www.naturemuseum.org/the-museum/collections</a>.</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Dawn Roberts | Director of Collections</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, IL 60614 | <a href="http://www.naturemuseum.org" target="_blank">www.naturemuseum.org</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Collections Facility and Office</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">4001 N Ravenswood Avenue, suite 201, Chicago, IL 60613 | 773-755-5125</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i>The Urban Gateway to Nature and Science</i></font></div></div></div></div>