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Byrd Antarctic Expedition field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B97
Scope and Contents
Field photographs and newspaper clippings of Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
Dates:
circa 1929
CAE II 100th Anniversary Rephotography Mission Image collection
Collection
Identifier: MA.2021.010
Content Description
Images and progress reporting produced by J. Kelly Cluer and M. Saandar during the CAE II 100th Anniversary Rephotography Mission project. Bulk of the material is born-digital, with the exception of some analog poster-sized printouts of comparison shots. Material includes original rephotographs, compiled images in pdf format comparing the historic photograph with the rephotograph, powerpoint presentations and a progress report. AMNH Research Library collection images from the Second Asiatic...
Dates:
2016 - 2023
Cameroun
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 21
Scope and Contents
This film, made by the French government while Cameroon was still under French trusteeship, shows the dances of people of the southern provinces of Akonolinga, Yaounde, Doume, and Batouri. Details of clothing, ornaments, hair styles, and the xylophone that provides the music for the dances are shown. The first dance, in Akonolinga, features young girls in what is possibly an initiation dance. They wear vegetable fiber skirts, silver arm and leg ornaments and European elfin stocking caps. In...
Dates:
between 1920 and 1939
Camping Among the Indians
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 22
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH-Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest, 1927. The AMNH Woodcraft Indian trip was led by Ernest Thompson Seton, the author, and George Clyde Fisher (AMNH curator of visual instruction). The film depicts a variety of dances (the buffalo, hood, war, eagle, corn, deer and snowbird) performed by Indians of the Tesuque, Taos, Acoma and Santa Clara Pueblos. Fisher also filmed other activities of the local people during the trip, most notably an intertribal ceremony in Gallup,...
Dates:
1927
Canadian travel photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .C36
Scope and Contents
Includes maps of the provinces, views of the major cities, the Canadian Rocky Mountains and geological formations.
Dates:
1898-1938
Carib Syndicate, Limited Columbian and South American expedition field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .C375
Scope and Contents
Includes field photographs taken by the members of the Carib Syndicate during their expedition to Columbia.
Dates:
1917
Carl Akeley Memorabilia Collection
Collection
Identifier: MEM 47
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of objects that AMNH taxidermist Carl Akeley used or created throughout his life including his first piece of taxidermy (canary, age 12) and his sculpting tools used to create taxidermy for the museum's dioramas. Includes tools and equiptment used on expeditions and tools used for taxidermy process including casts, film can, his pith helmet and walking stick. Also includes a bust of Akeley and various certificates and awards.
Dates:
1876 - 1926
Carl and Mary in Africa
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 24
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley East African Expedition, 1926. In the opening sequence, Carl Ethan Akeley (associate in the AMNH Department of Mammalogy, and associate curator and adviser in the AMNH Department of Preparation) watches artist William R. Leigh painting habitat studies for the background of the klipspringer group, one of the dioramas now in the museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. At the campsite, located in the Lukenia Hills 40 miles east of Nairobi, Leigh...
Dates:
1926
Carl Ethan Akeley photographs, circa 1920s
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A4251
Scope and Contents
Two portraits of Akeley and two photographs of flamingos in Africa.
Dates:
circa 1920s
Carl Ethan Akeley portrait
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A4252
Scope and Contents
Wrapped package containing portrait of Carl Akeley.
Dates:
undated
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