Annual Reports
- Beginning with the very first annual report of the Museum, (Annual Reports of the Director to the Board of Trustees 1894-1895), early annual reports are richly detailed with lists of accessions, descriptions of expeditions, and names of important figures in the history of The Field Museum.
- Access every annual report by year and type from this page of The Field Museum website.
Field Columbian Museum Historical Series
Newsletters
Articles about the World's Columbian Exposition and founding of The Field Museum and its collections are all freely available through the library's partnership with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL):
- Carter-DeVale, Sue. 1978. "The Gamelan." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 49, no. 1 (January): 3-12.
- Carter-DeVale, Sue. 1977. "Rebirth of the Gamelan." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 48, no. 10 (November): 22-23.
- Cole, Douglas. 1985. "The Northwest Coast Collection at the Columbian Exposition." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 40, no. 5 (November): 11-20.
- Collier, Donald. 1969. "Chicago Comes of Age: The World's Columbian Exposition and the Birth of Field Museum." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 40, no. 5 (May): 2-7.
- Cottle, Judith. 1981."Edward E. Ayer and W.M. Flinders Petrie, 'Founding Fathers' of the Egyptian Collection." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 52, no. 10 (November): 33-35.
- Farrington, Oliver C. 1930. "A Brief History of Field Museum from 1893 to 1930." Field Museum News 1, no. 1 (January 1930): 1, 3 and continuing in each succeeding issue concluding in v. 2, no. 2 (February 1931): 4.
- Field, Stanley. 1943. "Fifty Years of Progress; Some History of Field Museum (1893-1943)." Field Museum News 14, no. 9-10 (September-October): 3-10.
- "Field Museum from the Ground up." 1980. Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 51, no. 5 (May): 20-23.
- Pomerantz, Louis. 1978. "Restoration of the Gamelan." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 49, no. 1 (January): 13-18.
- Van Stone, James. 1986. "Robert E. Peary: Arctic Explorer and Collector for the World's Columbian Exposition." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 57, no. 5 (May): 18-23.
- Van Stone, James. 1986. "Miner W. Bruce: Reindeer Herder, Showman, and Collector for the World's Columbian Exposition." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 57, no. 7 (July/August): 19-25.
- Webber, E. Leland. 1984."Books, Business, and Buckskins." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 55, no. 7 (July/August): 5-10, 19-25.
- Williams, Patricia M. "Chicago Original: The Burnham Plan and Field Museum." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 39, no. 5 (May 1968): 8-12.