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B. J. Kaston photographic slide collection
Collection
Identifier: PSC 307
Scope and Contents
Close up photographs of mainly spiders and also includes images of other insects as well as crabs and shells.
Dates:
1951-1963
Nicholas Marcellus Hentz Spider paintings
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H46
Content Description
Collection of 209 watercolors of created by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz. Colored drawings accompanied by commentary, mostly in English but some in French. Many are numbered, the highest number being 239.
The paintings have been digitized and added to the Research Library's Digital Special Collections.
Dates:
between 1820 and 1840
Norman I. Platnick entomology slides of spiders, 1951-1957.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 398-403
Abstract
Color images of spiders including wolf spiders (Lycosidae) in Boxes 1 and 2 including photos taken in California, Florida, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah and Washington;̀ jumping spiders (Salticidae) in Boxes 3 and 4 including photos taken in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and Ontario, Canada; spiders (Mygalomorphs) in Box 5; and miscellaneous depictions of spiders in their natural habitats and spider webs in Box 6, including photos taken in Alachua, Liberty, Marion...
Dates:
1951-1957
R. E. Colville photographic slide collection of spiders, undated.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 183
Abstract
Photographs of spiders from California, Costa Rica, and South Africa. Species names identified on each slide.
Dates:
undated
Spiders ; A day in the life of a lion
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 28
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: Spiders. This segment is concerned with the world of spiders and includes a presentation of a live tarantula and other smaller specimens. John C. Pallister, research associate in the AMNH Department of Insects and Spiders, opens the segment with a discussion on the difference between tarantulas and small spiders. He examines live spiders in the television studio and presents a film about spiders, and their attempts to obtain prey both with and without webs. Different types of webs...
Dates:
1953
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American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192