A new photo collection featuring five separate photo sets from the Fisher's digital collectons has been released on the the library's Flickr site. The images feature highlights from:

Anatomia: Features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine.

Barren Lands: Documents two exploratory surveys of the Barren Lands region west of Hudson Bay, in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the area now known as Nunavut. It draws on materials from the J.B. Tyrrell, James Tyrrell and related collections.

Agnes Chamberlin Digital Collection: Consists of original paintings of Canadian flora and mushrooms by Agnes Chamberlin (1833–1913), dating from the period 1863 to the 1900s. In addition to the original paintings, the Chamberlin digital collection also includes early editions of Canadian Wild Flowers and two editions of Studies of Plant Life.

Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection: Features over 2500 of the prints of Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), a great master of the art of etching. As well as the individual etchings, the Fisher Library boasts some one hundred published works containing original prints made from Hollar's plates.

Discovery and Early Development of Insulin: Documents the initial period of the discovery and development of insulin, 1921-1925, by presenting over six thousand page images reproducing original documents ranging from laboratory notebooks and charts, correspondence, writings, and published papers to photographs, awards, clippings, scrapbooks, printed ephemera and realia. Drawing mainly on the Banting, Best and related collections housed at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and the University Archives at the University of Toronto, it also includes significant holdings from the Aventis Pasteur (formerly Connaught) Archives.

To visit the Digital Collection highlights - some examples are seen below - on Flickr, click HERE. To visit the Digital Collection site on the Fisher web site, click HERE.

Highlights from Digital Collections on Flickr