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American Museum of Natural History, Department of Preparation and Installation: Diorama and Hall construction
Collection
Identifier: DR 104
Scope and Content Note
This collection spans the planning and development of the Department of Preparations for the dioramas of the various halls. These folders detail the requests and expenditures for the efforts made in travel, models, and sketches. The majority of the correspondence is directed from or to James L. Clark, the Director of the Department of Preparations between the 1930’s-1940’s. Much of the correspondence from James Lippit Clark, is directed to trackers, guides, taxidermists, donors, and...
Dates:
1919-1962
Department of Preparation and Installation exhibition accession records
Collection
Identifier: DR 135
Abstract
Contains accession records, inventory lists, correspondence related to accession of art works and expedition memorabilia for AMNH exhibitions, such as Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, Admiral Byrd collection (including list of Antarctic Expedition equipment and correspondence between Byrd and curator), John Burroughs exhibit, Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar expedition. Also contains accession records book, correspondence, and master sheet from defunct Department of Geography.
Dates:
1927-1962
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- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
- Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1
- Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 1
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 1
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
- Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951 1
- Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
- Klein, Alfred J. 1
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
- McConnell, Robert E. 1
- New York State Roosevelt Memorial 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
- Rungius, Carl, 1869-1959 1
- Sage West China Expedition (1934) 1
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