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Found in 687 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Jobe Akeley photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .A426
Scope and Contents

Field photographs taken by Mary Jobe and Carl Akeley which include the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy and other African expeditions, portraitures, and American Museum of Natural History lab views of Carl Akeley's taxidermy.

Dates: 1896-1930s
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Mary Jobe Akeley photographs

Mary McKenna photographic slide collection, 1955-1958.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 349
Abstract

Various nature scenes including breaking surf, snow and ice, rushing mountain stream, autumn foliage, and sunsets. One photograph of Central Park in winter.

Dates: 1955-1958
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Mary McKenna photographic slide collection, 1955-1958.

Materials from "Plates from Audubon Birds of America" exhibition

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn195
Scope and Contents

B/W photographs, copies of copperplate bird images, paper rolls with drawings, "Plates from Audubon birds of America" exhibition display poster.

Dates: undated
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / Materials from "Plates from Audubon Birds of America" exhibition

William Diller Matthew papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .M338
Dates: 1922-1926; Majority of material found within ( 1925-1926)
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / William Diller Matthew papers

Mayan Indians

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 44
Scope and Contents In this broadcast, Gordon Frederick Ekholm, museum archaeologist, and noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright discuss Mayan archaeology and culture while in the museum's Hall of Mexico and Central America. A film depicting ruins and the descendants of the Mayans provides moving portraits of the modern culture, emphasizing the facial similarities between the modern Indians and their ancestors. The film was produced by the United Fruit Company and Willard Pictures, Inc. Models of Mayan...
Dates: 1953
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Mayan Indians

Walter F. Meister papers

 Collection
Identifier: DR 124
Scope and Contents The collection consists of Meister's administrative papers from 1952 through 1967, including correspondence, budget reports from the various scientific departments, contracts for research projects, and records of bequests and grants. Most of the documents are typewritten, and many are photocopies or carbon copies. Among the topics covered are research grants made by the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund and the Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund; proposals for research at the Lerner Marine...
Dates: 1952-1967
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Walter F. Meister papers

Men of science

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 212
Scope and Contents This film introduces the scientists, technicians, artists, and their work at the AMNH in 1938. It was made by AMNH photographer Charles H. Coles and is narrated by Charles Russell, curator of the Department of Education. Though mostly filmed at the museum, scenes from AMNH expeditions are included to show the relationship between the work-in-the-field and at the museum. The film opens with a view of the exterior of the museum and a general introduction. William H. Barton, of the AMNH-Hayden...
Dates: 1938
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Men of science

Men of the Montaña

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 56
Scope and Contents Harry Tschopik, curator of ethnology at the AMNH, is interviewed for this program, which examines the cultural characteristics of a small Indian tribe living near the Amazon River in the Montana region of Peru and Ecuador. Tschopik recently returned from a perilous ten-month expedition (the AMNH Tschopik Expedition to Peru) in the Montana area, where he studied and recorded the cultures of the Shipibos, Conibos and Campas tribes before they encountered Western culture (recent discoveries of...
Dates: 1954
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Men of the Montaña

Mexican and Central American archaeological artifacts photographic slides, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 52
Abstract

Mexican archaeological artifacts including figures, sculptures and plates. Some sculptures included from the AMNH Mexican Hall. Artifacts from Los Melones, Texcoco, Veracruz, Ixtlan, Tepic and Chiapas.

Dates: undated
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Mexican and Central American archaeological artifacts photographic slides, undated.

Mimi Lejbzon photographic slide collection, 1973-1979.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 337
Abstract

Photographs mostly taken in the Canary Islands and some in Jerusalem.

Dates: 1973-1979
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Mimi Lejbzon photographic slide collection, 1973-1979.
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