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A day with John Burroughs
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 171
Scope and Contents
John Burroughs (1837-1921), author and naturalist, is filmed going about his daily routine at his home, Woodchuck Lodge, in the Catskill Mountains. This film is unique for the time as it was filmed in color; it is the earliest color film in the collection. It was made using a process called "prizma" color, in which both sides of the positive film were coated with emulsion; one side was dyed blue and green, the other side red and yellow. When projected together the image is in natural color...
Dates:
1919
A - F , 1898 - 1933
File — Container: Box 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Adolph F. Bandelier, Abbe Henri Breuil, Harold Cummins, A. E. Douglass, Childs Frick. Also includes correspondence between Osborn and the Geological Survey of Canada and Geological Survey of Brazil tracking down Cope's specimens after the latter's death in 1897.
Dates:
1898 - 1933
A – General, 1916-1932
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates:
1916-1932
A - General
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Mss .C667
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, monographs, maps, articles, personal papers and oil paintings.Roger Conant (1909-2003) was a herpetologist whose specimen collection resides in the herpetology department of this museum. The author of the “Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America,” he served as the director of two Zoos, in Toledo and Philadelphia, and for many years was on the faculty of the University of New Mexico as an adjunct professor.Conant...
Dates:
1904-2003; Majority of material found within 1930-1995
A - Individuals Allen, one letter each
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Identifier: Mss .B5354
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, reports, newspaper clippings and photocopies of journal articles, photographs of Bickmore, and one drawing. The bulk of Bickmore's papers (32 boxes) consists of correspondence, mostly typewritten, relating to his work as superintendent of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and curator of the Dept. of Public Education. Additional material consists of handwritten diaries from Bickmore's travels; the typescript of his...
Dates:
1865-1903
A. J. Emmerich photographic slide collection of animals in Africa
Collection
Identifier: PSC 213
Scope and Contents
Photographs of animals in nature in Africa.
Dates:
1968
A. L. Rand Second Archbold Expedition to New Guinea prints, 1936
File
Identifier: Location: MAM 45
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Archbold Collections at the American Museum of Natural History is comprised of material that documents the expeditionary fieldwork of Richard Archbold and the Archbold Expeditions. It is housed within the AMNH Department of Mammalogy Archive, and encompasses a variety of formats, including photographs, slides, film, scrapbooks, correspondence, financial records, and field documentation such as catalogs, specimen lists, field notes and journals. These describe both the day-to-day...
Dates:
1936
A list of the Tring ornithological collection : [microform] / prepared by Robert Cushman Murphy.
Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #37
A little journey through Iran
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 183
Scope and Contents
A Little Journey through Iran is a record of the Dyers' travels through that country. Included in the film are magnificent shots of the Tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae, and the tombs of the other Achaemeni kings, Darius I, Darius II and Xerxes, and the nearby ruins of Persepolis. The Dyers also visited and filmed Esfahan, Shiraz, and the port city of Bandar Abbas, where the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf meet. Footage of Persian women in brightly colored clothes and veils, an oasis...
Dates:
1971
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