Brooklyn Museum
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bird islands of Peru
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 16
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Brooklyn Museum's Peruvian Littoral Expedition, 1919-1920. This film was made during the expedition to the islands off Peru under the auspices of the Brooklyn Museum. Robert Cushman Murphy, who was then a curator of the Department of Natural Science at the Brooklyn Museum, led the expedition and narrates the film. The expedition went to study the guano-producing birds on these islands. Some of the footage in this film was purchased from the National Guano Administration of...
Dates:
[1920?]
Frederic A. Lucas correspondence, 1916 Aug. 28, 1922 July 18.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .L83
Dates:
1916 - 1922
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- Subject
- Birds -- Exhibitions 1
- Film Collection 1
- Guano 1
- Mammals -- Classification -- History. 1
- Mammals -- Exhibitions 1
- Manuscript Collection 1
- Moving Images 1
- Museum curators -- United States -- History. 1
- Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 1
- Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 1
- Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions 1
- Natural history museums -- United States -- History. 1
- Sea birds -- Behavior -- Peru 1
- Sea birds -- Peru 1
- Sea birds -- Peru -- Nests 1 ∧ less
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