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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
William King Gregory papers, 1889-1948 (bulk 1906-1948)
Collection
Identifier: Mss .G7441
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of administrative, scientific, academic and personal papers, and correspondence. Papers include Gregory's general correspondence with universities, colleges and scientists about his research topics and publications; correspondence with museums about purchasing replicas of fossils; and with students seeking employement. Other papers include lecture notes prepared for zoology classes emphasizing evolution, 1925-1926 and 1939; and manuscripts and notes for his...
Dates:
1889-1948; Majority of material found within 1906-1948
[Illustrations for "Birds of the Belgian Congo"].
Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1309
Dates:
1930 - 1954
James Chapin (1890-1964) / Back "H 1925"
Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1019
Scope and Contents
Portrait bust of James Chapin, AMNH ornithologist and explorer.
Dates:
1925
James Chapin photographic slide collection
Collection
Identifier: PSC 165-166
Scope and Contents
Mostly consists of field photographs from the Belgian Congo including birds, nests, large mammals, lakes, general landscape and buildings. Also includes pictures of colleagues and/or family, Pygmies and a Pygmy dance, Watusi dance and some images showing the preparation for the Ross Expedition (1957). A few slides taken in the United States, primarily California.
Dates:
circa 1953-1961
James Chapin photographic slide collection
Collection
Identifier: PSC 321
Scope and Contents
Photographs from the Chapin Collection taken mostly in Africa, including Senegal, Belgian Congo, Rwanda, and a few photographs from the United States, including Carl Akeley's grave. Images of birds, birds' nests, flowering trees, indigenous people, colleagues, and family.
Dates:
1953-1958
James P. Chapin African bibliography
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn14
Scope and Contents
Files on James Paul Chapin's bibliography on Africa. Titles referenced in the files are from the 18th through 20th centuries.
Dates:
1930s-1950s
Found in:
Department of Ornithology Archives
James P. Chapin collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn47
Scope and Contents
Collection of Christmas cards from and to James Paul Chapin, watercolors, drawings, "colophons" (referenced as colophons but are actually hand drawn illustrations and considered a device), bookplates, cartoons, envelopes with Chapin illustrations. Subject matter mostly birds, also images of fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and plants. Includes watercolors done by Chapin for the American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915).
Dates:
1900 -1960s, undated
Found in:
Department of Ornithology Archives
James P. Chapin collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn221
Scope and Contents
James Chapin's personal and professional correspondence, expedition records including field notes and catalogs, photographs, negatives and personal diaries (1918-1964). Includes collected newsclippings, "Birds of the Belgian Congo" Ph.D. thesis and published works, reel to reel tape recordings with transcriptions, address books, date books, lists of Congo birds, original manuscripts, published reviews, articles, talks, papers, notes. Also includes Biographical information, photographs and...
Dates:
1908-1964
Found in:
Department of Ornithology Archives
James P. Chapin Congo bibliography
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn15
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of James Paul Chapin's bibliography files on the Democratic Republic of Congo. One drawer contains files on books solely about Kivu, a region of the Congo. Titles referenced in the files are from the 20th century.
Dates:
1930s-1950s
Found in:
Department of Ornithology Archives
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- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
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- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 2
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
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- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
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- Adamson, Hans Christian 1
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- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
- Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 1
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- Ascension Island, 1941-1958 1
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- Beals, Jessie Tarbox 1
- Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
- Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 1
- Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
- Boyd-Chapin Safari (1956-1957) 1
- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Chapin Field Trip to the Eastern Congo (1953-1958) 1
- Chapin-Edson Congo Expedition (1930-1931) 1
- Chapman, Clark R. 1
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- Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
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- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
- Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 1
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- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
- Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957 1
- Lee, Hugh J. 1
- Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
- Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
- McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
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- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
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- Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953) 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
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- Pond, Alonzo William, 1894-1986 1
- Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 1
- Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 1
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
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