Images of the Peale Butterfly and Moth Collection

New cabinets housing the Peale Butterfly and Moth Collection

Fig 1A. View of new cabinets housing the Peale Butterfly and Moth Box Collection at The Academy of Natural Sciences. Open doors reveal the tray system for holding the Peale box storage containers.

Fig. 1B. Another view of the five new cabinets housing the Peale Collection.

Removable trays holding storage boxes in the new cabinets housing the Peale Collection

Fig. 2A. Inner view of new cabinet showing removable trays holding the storage boxes of the Peale Collection.

Work table with Peale box in new storage cotainer and image of specimen on website corresponding to moth specimen in center of box

Fig. 2B. Work table with one of the Peale boxes exposed in its storage container. Associated mylar sheets hold the spine labeling from the original paper cover (some boxes were never bound within book covers but were held in brown paper sleeves) and the index for the box. The laptop computer displays the specimen image for the website corresponding to the central specimen in the box.

Conservator documentation slides and condition reports along with laptop displaying the Peale website

Fig. 2C. Worktable with conservator documentation slides and condition reports, and laptop displaying the Peale website http://data.acnatsci.org/peale.

Fig. 3A. The storage box constructed by CCAHA to house each Peale box. On top is the index stored and labeled in a mylar protector.

A Peale Box stored inside the outer storage box

Fig. 3B. A Peale box (Box 2) in its orginal bindings and book covers stored in the outer storage box.

A Peale box with the orginal book covers open.

Fig. 4. A Peale Butterfly and Moth Collection Box (Box 2), in open position (book covers open).

The Titian Peale Butterfly and Moth Collection

Images of the Rehoused Peale Collection

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