American Museum of Natural History. Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals

Mary Jobe Akeley papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss .A342-.A344

Dates: 1859-1940

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Mary Jobe Akeley papers

Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals photographic slides

Collection

Identifier: PSC 25

Scope and Contents

Primarily images from the dioramas in the the AMNH Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals with some interior views of the hall. Includes some images of preparator refurbishing Cheetah Group inside the diorama, 1974. Also includes 5 duplicate slides of black and white photographs depicting Carl Akeley in the field, a group photograph and an illustration of the African Mammal Hall.

Dates: 1949,1974, undated

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals photographic slides

Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell

Item

Identifier: Mss .C36

Scope and content Typescripts recount two of Campbell's expeditions: to East Africa, Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935; and to the Dunqulah region of Sudan, Dec. 1937-1938(?); primarily to collect specimens for the AMNH. Both reports are undated, and the account for the Sudan expedition appears to be unfinished. The reports mention Campbell's associates and co-leaders: hunter and photographer Alfred J. Klein in East Africa, and hunter Major W.V.D. Dickinson in Sudan. The appendix to the report on the East African...

Dates: 1935 - 1938

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell

Carl and Mary in Africa

Collection

Identifier: Film Collection no. 24

Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley East African Expedition, 1926. In the opening sequence, Carl Ethan Akeley (associate in the AMNH Department of Mammalogy, and associate curator and adviser in the AMNH Department of Preparation) watches artist William R. Leigh painting habitat studies for the background of the klipspringer group, one of the dioramas now in the museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. At the campsite, located in the Lukenia Hills 40 miles east of Nairobi, Leigh...

Dates: 1926

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Carl and Mary in Africa

Exhibition Tools and Materials

Collection

Identifier: Mem 308

Scope and Contents Since its inception in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History had exhibitions on the natural world, human cultures, and the universe. The habitat dioramas are predominantly featured in the Museum, with the first appearing in the late 1800s. A combination of distinct methods and tools was used to create the background, foreground, and taxidermy specimens that compose these exhibits, which improved with the advancement of technology and new knowledge.The exhibition tools and...

Dates: Usage: circa 1887-1990s

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Exhibition Tools and Materials

Martin Johnson papers, 1923-1942

Collection

Identifier: Mss .J63- .J65

Dates: (bulk 1923-1937).

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Martin Johnson papers, 1923-1942

Philip Manwaring Plant collection, 1936-1941.

Collection

Identifier: Mss .P53

Dates: 1936 - 1941

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Philip Manwaring Plant collection, 1936-1941.

[Rock study for the Klipspringer Group] [art original] / A.A. Jansson

Item — Frame: 1

Identifier: Art Survey No. 872

Scope and Contents

Painting Jansson made during the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Expedition to British East Africa, 1926-1927. Detail of the Lukenia Hills, forty miles east of Nairobi, with weathered granite rocks and shrubs (possibly Boswellia pyrifera). Facsimiles of the rocks were made for the Kiplinger diorama in the American Museum of Natural History's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. Signed at lower left. On back of canvas: "P.20" (and "P 356" crossed out).

Dates: 1927

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / [Rock study for the Klipspringer Group] [art original] / A.A. Jansson

[Studies for the dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History's African Hall]

Collection

Identifier: Art Survey No. 275-285

Dates: 1926

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / [Studies for the dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History's African Hall]

Trowbridge and Livingston photographs of construction of exterior and interior of Section 13, African Hall

Collection

Identifier: PPC .T76

Scope and Contents

Photographs of the construction of the exterior and interior of the African Hall.

Dates: 1929-1931

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Trowbridge and Livingston photographs of construction of exterior and interior of Section 13, African Hall

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Jobe Akeley papers

Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals photographic slides

Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell

Carl and Mary in Africa

Exhibition Tools and Materials

Martin Johnson papers, 1923-1942

Philip Manwaring Plant collection, 1936-1941.

[Rock study for the Klipspringer Group] [art original] / A.A. Jansson

[Studies for the dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History's African Hall]

Trowbridge and Livingston photographs of construction of exterior and interior of Section 13, African Hall

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