The Institute’s Special Collections, carefully housed in the archives, include over 1200 original works of art from Dr. Peterson’s field guides and books, as well as from other prominent nature artists such as Robert Bateman, Guy Coheleach, John Seerey-Lester, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Keith Shackleton and J. Fenwick Lansdowne. Over 300 limited-edition art prints and lithographs by Dr. Peterson and others supplement the original pieces.  Each piece is numbered and placed in archival folders and stored in a temperature and humidity controlled environment.