This archive was created to enhance research and educational access to the Perkins Geology Museum collection. When completed, the database will contain over 40,000 images from the museum’s collection, including:fossil, rock, and mineral specimens, thin-sections and 35mm slides, maps, photographs, and soil cores.

When Man and Nature was published in 1864 it was immediately hailed as a major contribution to the field of physical geography. Its author, George Perkins Marsh, was one of the first to recognize and described in detail the significance of human action in transforming the natural world. The George Perkins Marsh Research Center provides access to transcriptions and images of selected letters in Marsh's correspondence.

The manuscript holdings of Special Collections in the Bailey/Howe Library total more than 8,000 linear feet, which include bound volumes, individual folders and boxed collections. The University of Vermont provides electronic access to selected inventories to manuscript collections from the University of Vermont as well as from the St. Johnsbury Archives Collaborative.

The Project plans to create a complete online catalog of the Museum's holdings. It is currently building the catalog, and capturing digital images of the collections. Ultimately, these images and information about the collections will be made available via the Web.