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Birds of paradise and spiders (beauty and the beast)
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 95
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: Birds of Paradise. Ernest Thomas Gilliard, AMNH curator of birds, joins Charles Collingwood to discuss birds of paradise as examples of beauty. Gilliard led an expedition to New Guinea in 1953-54 to study the birds of paradise, found almost exclusively in New Guinea. Their uses in native costume are shown. A large photographic blow-up of the birds is used as a backdrop for the discussion in the studio. SEGMENT 2: Spiders. Demonstrating the beauty and the beast in nature, this...
Dates:
1955
Dorothy Bliss papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .B55
Scope and Contents
In the case of this collection, Scope and Content are virtually synonymous. Both words encompass Dr. Bliss's single-minded, detailed study of crustaceans in general and the land crab gecarcinus lateralis in particular. There is nothing in these papers that refers to her teaching positions or the other outside interests cited in the biographical sketch. It must be assumed that she was always careful to compartmentalize her various activities. The scope of the material starts in...
Dates:
1950-1979
Franz Boas photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Content Note
The Franz Boas Photo Collection consists mainly of photographs of Northwest Coast Natives from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition: 1897-1902, sponsored by AMNH, and the Boas Expedition to Northwest Territories in 1894. There was no original order within this collection and most of the collection is stamped with the marking, “From the Boas Collection 43.” Many other sources besides Boas contributed to this collection, including the British Columbia Provincial Museum, the Field Museum of...
Dates:
1868-1943; Majority of material found within 1894-1902
Bob Bartlett field photographic collection
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B37
Scope and Contents
Photographs include walrus hunting; Brigus, Newfoundland; many photos at sea aboard the Effie M. Morrissey; birds and nests; the S.S. Karluk and shipwreck camp in Greenland.
Dates:
circa 1930s-1940s
Bobb Schaeffer photographs of fossil fish specimens
Collection
Identifier: PPC .S34
Scope and Contents
Photographs of fish fossils and skeletons, also includes color positives
Dates:
undated
Boekelman Shell Heap Expedition photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B631
Scope and Contents
Field photographs mainly of shell heaps and indigenous peoples taken during the Boekelman Shell Heap Expedition of 1931.
Dates:
1931
Brewster-Sanford Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B741
Scope and Contents
Field photographs of Brewster-Sanford Expedition to South America, mostly of boats, people, animals, and buildings.
Dates:
1912-1917
Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell
Item
Identifier: Mss .C36
Scope and content
Typescripts recount two of Campbell's expeditions: to East Africa, Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935; and to the Dunqulah region of Sudan, Dec. 1937-1938(?); primarily to collect specimens for the AMNH. Both reports are undated, and the account for the Sudan expedition appears to be unfinished. The reports mention Campbell's associates and co-leaders: hunter and photographer Alfred J. Klein in East Africa, and hunter Major W.V.D. Dickinson in Sudan. The appendix to the report on the East African...
Dates:
1935 - 1938
British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B7561
Scope and Contents
Enlargements of field photographs taken by H. G. Ponting.
Dates:
1910-1913
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