This collection is available by appointment only.

This collection contains a variety of aerial photographs taken of the Galapagos Islands. The images are black and white.

The scale of the photographs varies from 1/25,000-1/60,000 (USAF) and 1/4,000-1/60,000 (IGM). The collection contains some duplicates. The images were taken in the following years: • USAF (1946, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1981, 1982, 1985); • Instituto Geografico Militar, Ecuador (IGM): 1963, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985.

This collection is in boxes by island and within boxes by photograph number. Some folders may be out of order. Box 1: Collection documentation and inventories, survey maps, Volcan Wolf photographs; Box 2: Baltra; Box 3: Beagle; Box 4: Daphne, Darwin, Espanola, Floreana, Genovesa, Rabida, SantaFe; Box 5: Fernandina; Box 6-9: Isabela; Box 10: San Cristóbal; Box 11: San Salvador; Box12-13: Santa Cruz.

This collection contains aerial photographs that were taken of the islands in various years. Some of the projects were initiated by the Charles Darwin Foundation. Galapagos National Park may also have been involved. The purpose of the photographs was to provide a record of vegetation changes and impacts on visitor sites within GNP. A more detailed description of the project, dated 1988, is available in the first box of the collection with the other documentation.

Spanish and English

A folder of (incomplete) collection inventories, maps, and additional information accompanies the collection in box #1. A card catalog for the collection is also available.