# Archives Collections ## expand\_more ![Black-and-white photograph of Harvard Square in 1903, showing people walking on a dirt road with trees and wooden buildings in the background](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/herbaria/files/harvard_square_1903.jpg?itok=3z2ebwKa) Harvard Square, 1903 Image from the J.F. Collins ArchivesThe Botany Libraries Archives is the Harvard University Herbaria's repository of historical papers, images, and institutional records. The materials in our archives come from the following collections: The Arnold Arboretum The Bailey-Wetmore Wood Collection The Botanical Museum Collection The Economic Botany Herbarium The Farlow Herbarium The Gray Herbarium The Henry David Thoreau Herbarium The New England Botanical Club The Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium Archives Paleobotanical Collections The Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka Glass Flower Archives The Tina & R.Gordon Wasson Ethnomycological Collection Archives Search for archival collections using [HOLLIS](https://hollis.harvard.edu). Explore finding aids, which provide detailed descriptions of archival materials, for select collections using [HOLLIS for Archival Discovery](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/). The archival collections of the Botany Libraries are open without fee to all adult researchers regardless of academic affiliation. Researchers may consult materials from the archives only by **advance appointment.** To make an appointment please contact . Please allow one week for the processing of requests. In general, we can only accommodate one archives researcher at a time. Once an appointment is confirmed materials must be requested using [HOLLIS Special Request](https://aeon.hul.harvard.edu/logon). [Visit the HOLLIS Special Request instructions](https://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=1166461) for information on creating an account, placing a request, ordering reproductions, and saving lists of materials in which you are interested. Researchers can also add items to their HOLLIS Special Request account directly from Harvard’s finding aid portal [HOLLIS for Archival Discovery](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/). [Learn more about requesting items from HOLLIS for Archival Discovery.](https://guides.library.harvard.edu/hollisforarchivaldiscovery/usingcollections) If you do not already have a HOLLIS Special Request account, you will be prompted to create one upon submitting your requests from the finding aid. Further Information: [Use Policies](/archival-policies) [Visiting the Herbaria](/pages/visit) [Permission to Publish](/pages/permission-publish)