Who knew that you could find actual plant specimens in Special Collections & Archives? It’s true, we own several books of pressed plants, including this book of pressed sea vegetation from Bermuda.
Bermuda 1890 was handmade out of blue-green paper, with hand-painted oceanfront scenes on the front and back covers. Inside, 45 different specimens of sea weeds were pressed onto cardstock, and then sewn onto the pages of the book. Unfortunately, we don’t know who collected all these sea plants and made the book, but it’s obvious that they put a lot of time and care into the project. If there are any sea plant experts out there, come take a look! Perhaps you will even be able to help us identify some of the plants…
