American Museum of Natural History
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Found in 687 Collections and/or Records:
O & R Ure photographic slides of budding flowers, undated.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 509
Abstract
Two close up photographs of Elm flower buds.
Dates:
undated
Office of Public Affairs financial records and press clippings, 1974-1984.
Collection
Identifier: DR 136
Abstract
Contains financial records and public relations materials, mostly from the late 1970s. Financial records include requisitions, receipts, and statements for payroll, utilities, supplies, as well as printing and photography services for the museum. Public relations materials include press releases, mounted press clippings about exhibitions and events, including three folders on an exhibition about the creation of a replica dinosaur skeleton titled "The Making of a Dinosaur." Also, includes...
Dates:
1974 - 1984
Oil digging in Purcell, Oklahoma
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 114
Scope and Contents
Robert Northshield, producer of the Adventure series, joins engineers of the Carter Oil Company (a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey) in staking out a claim-site and starting drilling in Purcell, Oklahoma. The first show in a series on geology and oil, regular host Charles Collingwood is assisted by Norman Dennis Newell, from the AMNH Department of Geology. Film sequences illustrate oil rigs, drilling and dynamiting techniques, the use of derricks, and include an animated film on oil....
Dates:
1955
Okavango: Africa's Last Eden exhibition photographic slides, 1996.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 590D
Abstract
Views of the temporary exhibition, Okavango: Africa's Last Eden, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1996-1997, Akeley Gallery.
Dates:
1996
James Arthur Oliver papers
Collection
Identifier: DR 125-125A
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of administrative papers from the years 1959-1969 when Oliver was director of the AMNH. The files were arranged arranged alphabetically by subject, most likely by Oliver's secretary, and have been kept in their original order. A typewritten Guide to the file cabinet was found in box 1. Some miscellaneous files from the last box were interfiled. Most of the material is typewritten or printed matter, but there is a handwritten signed letter from explorer Roy...
Dates:
1940-1972
Origami Christmas exhibit photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 23
Scope and Contents
Indivudual origami ornaments in the studio and displayed on the tree. Includes images of the decorated tree on display in the museum.
Dates:
1973-1987
Origins of races, Australian aborigines
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 81
Scope and Contents
This broadcast traces the origins of the world's races, with special emphasis on the Australian aborigines. The show opens with the John Butler dancers enacting the spread of races by traversing a giant map of the world, wearing Caucasian, black and Mongolian masks. Allen Keast, curator at the Australian Museum in Sydney and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, was a special guest on the show. An excellent film on contemporary Australian aborigines, also known as Australian Bushmen,...
Dates:
1954
Henry Fairfield Osborn papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .O835
Dates:
1877-1935; Majority of material found within 1908-1935
Our moon and other moons ; Invertebrates
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 30
Scope and Contents
In Our moon and other moons, the earth's moon and other satellites in space are discussed by Joseph M. Chamberlain, Catherine E. Barry and Frank H. Forrester, astronomers at the AMNH-Hayden Planetarium. The instruments used to study the solar system are presented, the short film Moons of Saturn is shown, and Copernican theory is discussed. (The first space probe to the moon was landed by the Soviet Union in September 1959 and the first man stepped on the moon on July 20, 1969.) In...
Dates:
1953
Pacific and Asian artifacts photographic slides, undated.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 12
Abstract
Studio photographs of Pacific and Asian artifacts from Borneo, Japan and Australia.
Dates:
undated
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
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New York, NY 10024-5192