Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917)
Organization
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A54
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944. It also contains one folder of family and biographical documents and newspaper clippings received from Charles Gallenkamp, Andrews' biographer, in 1990. The majority of the administrative papers' correspondence concerns requests for speaking engagements about Andrews' explorations, requests for articles, and letters from the public and from companies...
George Borup correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Mss .B67
Crocker Land Expedition collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn159
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Donald B. MacMillan
Crocker Land Expedition field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .C76
Scope and Content Note
This collection is a small subset of copies of prints from the larger Photographic Collection no. 14 – Crocker Land Expedition field photographs. The photographs in this collection are individually sleeved and arranged in four series. Folder 1 consists of 4 photographs that were taken prior to departure for the Arctic and include images of the S.S. “Diana” in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and group portraits of the expedition team.Folder 2 is divided into two sets. The first...
Crocker Land Expedition financial records, 1912-1922
Collection
Identifier: DR 028C
Crocker Land Expedition papers, 1907-1922.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C76
George B. Cluett Auxiliary Schooner in Greenland photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .I67
Scope and Contents
An account of the "Cluett's" trip around Greenland. Includes images of the ship, its crew, the surrounding area, indigenous peoples and its winter at Parker Snow Bay, Greenland. Includes a caption list.
Edmund Otis Hovey records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H683
Scope and Content Note
The Edmund Otis Hovey Records collection consists of approximately 50 field notebooks and journals from his and Mrs. Ettie Hovey’s travels around the Caribbean, North America, Europe and the Arctic; as well as, manuscripts of his papers and lectures notes. The collection also includes photographs, postcards, ephemera and newspaper clippings regarding the Crocker Land Expedition that took place from 1913-1917. The collection spans a period of approximately 20 years, beginning in 1890 and...
[Journals and notebooks] : [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #1
Scripts of image titles for motion picture film title cards, 1919-1923.
Collection
Identifier: DR 134
Abstract
Contains papers scripts of scene-by-scene descriptions to be used as captions or title cards for silent films, some created by Kineto Films and others by the American Museum of Natural History, the latter including a film made of pictures from the Crocker Land Expedition titled "Life in the Frozen North" with handwritten notations by Edmund Otis Hovey, leader of relief expedition. Also contains some correspondence regarding ordering title cards with formatting requests. Contains small piece of...
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