Field Museum construction site - south entrance, Sept 12, 1918
The bibliography below contains resources regarding Field Museum History, the formation of collections, building architecture and more. Many citations contain links to full-text of the articles, while others are available in hard copy at the Museum's Library. The Field Museum Library serves Museum staff, visiting scholars and the public.
- Brinkman, Paul D. 2010. The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums & Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
- Brinkman, Paul D. “Frederic Ward Putnam, Chicago’s cultural philanthropists, and the founding of the Field Museum.” Museum History Journal 2, no.1 (2009): 73-100.
- Brinkman, Paul D. “Establishing vertebrate paleontology at Chicago’s Field Columbian Museum, 1893–1898.” Archives of Natural History 27, no.1 (2000): 81–114.
- Brinkman, Paul D. "She married a dinosaur." In the Field 75, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 20.
- Burger, William. “Field Museum as Architecture” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 53, no. 3 (March 1982): 3-5.
- Collier, Donald. "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 1969): 2-7.
- Cornelius, Charles Over. "Henry Hering's Sculpture for Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago." Annual Report of the Director to the Board of Trustees 5: no.4 (1919): 291-295.
- Cottle, Judith. "Edward E. Ayer and W.M. Flinders Petrie, 'Founding Fathers' of the Egyptian Collection." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 52, no. 10 (Nov 1981): 33-35.
- “Demonstration of Plans of the New Field Museum of Natural History.” Proceedings of the American Association of Museums 2 (1908): 73-83.
- Ditzel, Henry F. “Field Museum’s Building.” Field Museum News 11, no. 4 (April 1940): 6.
- "Field Columbian Museum" In: Meyer, A.B. Studies of the Museums and Kindred Institutions of New York City, Albany, Buffalo, and Chicago, with Notes on Some European Institutions. Washington: GPO, 1905.
- Gregg, Clifford C. “May 2 Marks 20th Anniversary of Field Museum’s Present Building” Field Museum News 12, no. 5 (May 1941): 3-4.
- Howell, Meta P. "The Museum Library in Transition." Chicago Natural History Museum Bulletin 36, no. 5 (May 1965): 2-3, 7-8.
- "Museum Hall Then…and Now.” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 39, no. 12 (December 1968): 14-15.
- Ottery, G. Henry. “The Hospitalization of Field Museum.” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 44, no. 11 (December 1973): 6-7.
- Walsten, David M. “Henry Hering and the Case of the Missing Maidens.” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 60, no. 6 (June 1989): 16-28.
- Webber, E. Leland. "Field Museum Again: name change honors Field Family." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 37, no. 3 (March 1966): 2-3.
- Williams, Patricia M. “The Burnham Plan and Field Museum” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 39, no. 5 (May 1968): 8-12.
- Williams, Patricia M. “The Museum ‘Trademark’.” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 39, no. 1 (1968): 1-5.