The Special Collections include rare books, botanical art, sculptures, photographs, herbaria and the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Archives. Among these are 35,000 photographic slides of Virginia wildflowers, captured by local conservationist Newton Ancarrow. Some of these slides are digitally accessible via the Ancarrow Wildflower Digital Archive, a collaborative project of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries and VCU Rice Rivers Center. Special Collections items do not circulate; to view these materials in the library, please contact the librarian.

Library staff and volunteers are available to provide research assistance and answer questions during the open hours of 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Drop-in questions are welcome, but we recommend scheduling an appointment for complex research requests. Please contact:

Anne-Marie Parrish
Director of Library and Archives
[email protected]
804-262-9887 x342.

EXPLORE OUR ARCHIVED COLLECTIONS,
IN CONTEXT!