[Nhcoll-l] Photo Help!

[Christopher Kemp]

Hello Friends,

I'm slowly nearing the end of my book project for University of Chicago on
species with long shelf lives. Couple of chapters left. But now I need a
little help obtaining some photos. I hope it's not inappropriate to ask.
You'll let me know if it is. But I'd love to me able to post my needs and
see if an intrepid person is at a particular institution and able to
photograph a specimen for me. It should be fun because I want some nice
artsy fartsy photos of specimens and collections so that people can
appreciate what treasures they are. Full credit to the photographer always.
Photos of labels, vials, cabinets, tightly-focused century-old specimens,
etc. For instance, it would be like this. I've included a type of mouse
described by Rob Voss in 2003. He collected specimens several decades
earlier. But when he described the species he found specimens collected in
1903 in the mammal collection at AMNH. Voss has been very very helpful with
information but he won't photograph them. That's totally fine! But, is
there anyone on here who is close enough, maybe even already at AMNH, to go
and take some great photos of the old mice?

I figure, we're a good community, why not try to crowdsource the artwork?

Thanks,,

--ck
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