Press Herald article on seed catalogs mentions Fogler Library special collection
A special collection at the University of Maine’s Fogler Library was mentioned in the Portland Press Herald article, “Find a treasure trove of old Maine seed catalogs online.” More than 18,000 seed and nursery catalogs dating back to the 18th century have been digitized and uploaded by the National Agricultural Library to the nonprofit Internet Archive, according to the article. Fogler is home to its own collection — two boxes of seed catalogs that were collected and donated by Iva Burgess, who was on the biology staff of the Agricultural Experiment Station, the article states. Interest in that collection has increased, said special collections librarian Desiree Butterfield-Nagy. “We’ve had classes that have come in to look at invasive (plant) species to see how they were marketed initially,” she said.