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Crocker Land Expedition field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .C76
Scope and Content Note
This collection is a small subset of copies of prints from the larger Photographic Collection no. 14 – Crocker Land Expedition field photographs. The photographs in this collection are individually sleeved and arranged in four series. Folder 1 consists of 4 photographs that were taken prior to departure for the Arctic and include images of the S.S. “Diana” in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and group portraits of the expedition team.Folder 2 is divided into two sets. The...
Dates:
circa 1913-1917
Crocker Land Expedition papers, 1907-1922.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C76
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1907 - 1922
Edward M. Weyer, Jr. collection, circa 1924-1979.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .W449
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks and manuscripts (autograph and typed) for articles and prospective books, notes for Man in the Arctic, both book and lecture series. Also includes clippings from newspapers and periodicals, audio tapes, film, photography and memorabilia as well as field notes from the Stoll-McCracken Expedition (1928). The field notes include a journal, drawings and loose pages both original and typed copies.
Dates:
1924 - 1979
Field and Expedition Equipment
Collection
Identifier: Mem 305
Scope and Contents
Since 1887, the American Museum of Natural History has been conducting field expeditions in every continent. This is one of the main resources for the Museum’s scientific research and collection development activities throughout all its disciplines. This grouping holds the equipment that were used during expeditions from around 1877 to 1996. Most of these expeditions required direct interaction with the natural habitat of the subject of study, which usually involves being out in the...
Dates:
Usage: circa 1877-1990s
Edmund Otis Hovey records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H683
Scope and Content Note
The Edmund Otis Hovey Records collection consists of approximately 50 field notebooks and journals from his and Mrs. Ettie Hovey’s travels around the Caribbean, North America, Europe and the Arctic; as well as, manuscripts of his papers and lectures notes. The collection also includes photographs, postcards, ephemera and newspaper clippings regarding the Crocker Land Expedition that took place from 1913-1917. The collection spans a period of approximately 20 years, beginning in 1890 and...
Dates:
1890-1919
Francis Lee Jaques field diaries and sketchbooks
Collection
Identifier: Mss .J37
Summary
Francis Lee Jaques (28 September 1887-24 July 1969), also known as Lee Jaques, is celebrated for his diorama paintings at the American Museum of Natural History, executed during the early and mid-twentieth century. A frequent collaborator with Museum curator and ornithologist Frank M. Chapman (1864-1945), the artist is especially associated with the Whitney Memorial Hall of Pacific Bird Life (that was co-designed with Robert Cushman Murphy, Museum curator and ornithologist). This collection...
Dates:
1925-1935
Norcross-Bartlett Expedition collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn74
Scope and Contents
Field notes, specimen numbers, field catalog from expedition in Iceland, Greenland, and the Arctic Ocean
Dates:
1931-1933
Found in:
Department of Ornithology Archives
The Passing Parade / LR "Wm. Goadby Lawrence"
Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 128
Scope and Contents
Polar bear on ice flow, whales in water with fins showing.
Dates:
undated
E. P. Wheeler collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss .W44
Scope and Contents
Specimen notebooks, topographical photos with transparent overlays, lab work, and publications including The Nain Anorthosite Project, Labrador: Field Report 1981. Collection includes paper, bound notebooks, temporary bindings, index cards, photographs, mylar overlays related to photographs.
Dates:
1953-1981; Majority of material found within 1954-1974
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- MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 2
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- Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 1
- Weyer, Edward Moffat, 1904-1998 1
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American Museum of Natural History
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