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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

C. Schuberth photographic slide collection, 1959-1964.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 430
Abstract

Photographs of landscapes, glacial deposits, storm damage, and rock formations in various parts of the United States. Some areas include Bronx Park (New York), Yosemite, Queens (New York), Long Island (New York), Central Park, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, and South Dakota.

Dates: 1959-1964

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

Catalogue of American antiquities collected by Dr. Edwin H. Davis : purchased by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1874. [microform]

 Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #12
Scope and Contents

Microform of 1874 holograph (1 volume, 59 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm). Catalogue of 562 objects, many from Ohio, listed and described on recto of leaves in notebook, with printed illustrations mounted on some of the facing pages. "Kenyon College commencement exercises, Wednesday, September 4th, 1833" program mounted on front pastedown.

On same reel is Davis's Catalogue of casts representing one hundred specimens of antiques found in the mounds of the West.

Dates: 1987

Catalogue of casts representing one hundred specimens of antiques found in the mounds of the West : originals collected E.H. Davis. [microform]

 Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #13
Scope and Contents

Microfilm of 1874 holograph (1 volume, (16 leaves) ; 21 cm). Catalogue of 103 objects, listed and described on recto of leaves in notebook. The first 47 items are calumets and pipes; the others include objects from Mexico, Central America, and Peru. The entries are also numbered 563-665 in pencil in continuation of: Catalogue of American antiquities collected by Dr. Edwin H. Davis.

On same reel as Davis's Catalogue of American antiquities collected by Dr. Edwin H. Davis.

Dates: 1987

Charles M. Bogert photographic slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 135
Scope and Contents

Field photographs consisting mostly of reptiles, amphibians including frogs, toads, turtles, snakes, salamanders and lizards. Collection also includes photographs of California Indians.

Dates: circa 1940-1960

Charles Vaurie photographic slide collection, 1959.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 533
Abstract

Photographs taken mostly in Bimini Islands and Cuba of landscapes, seascapes, fish, and other marine life. Also includes travel photography of Upper Falls, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Lake, Devil's Tower, Waterton Lakes National Park, and Banff National Park.

Dates: 1959

Cyril F. dos Passos papers, 1932-1978

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .D67
Scope and content

The collection consists of minimally processed material. It is primarily correspondence, with some administrative papers, notes, newspaper clippings and a few personal and family photographs. Some general subject headings are noted in pencil on the outside of the boxes, such as Lepidoptera, Entomology, Zoological nomenclature and Carnegie [Institute]. Correspondents include F. Martin Brown, Jeane D. Gunder, Alexander B. Klots and Charles Lee Remington.

Dates: 1932 - 1978

[Dinocyon] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight

 Item — Folder: Knight, RF-94-B
Identifier: Art Survey no. 776
Scope and Contents

Three-quarter view of head and neck of a Miocene dog. Signed and dated "Feb. 1902" at lower left.

Dates: 1902

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Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Sources. 1
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Washington (State) -- Klickitat County. 1
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American Museum of Natural History 20
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Department of Entomology 4
Beckett, J. (Jackie) 3
Davis, E. H. (Edwin Hamilton), 1811-1888 2
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Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 2
United States. Department of Agriculture 2
Abbott, R. E. 1
Allen, Arthur A. (Arthur Augustus), 1885-1964 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
Audubon 1
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 1
Audubon, M. Eliza (Mary Eliza) 1
Audubon, Maria R. (Maria Rebecca), 1843-1925 1
Banks, Nathan, 1868-1953 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Bauer, O. 1
Beals, Jessie Tarbox 1
Beutenmüller, William, 1864-1934 1
Bogert, Charles M. (Charles Mitchill), 1908-1992 1
Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 1
Breed, Jack 1
Brown, F. Martin (Frederick Martin), 1903-1993 1
CBS/AMNH Adventure Series (1953-1956) 1
Carnegie Institute 1
Chambers, Kenneth A. 1
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
Chapman, Clark R. 1
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 1
Comer, George 1
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
Crummett, Michael, 1948- 1
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952 1
DeBeers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. 1
Department of Exhibition 1
Dos Passos, Cyril F. (Cyril Franklin), 1887-1986 1
E. J. Mauther 1
Emmons, George Thornton 1
Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949 1
Foss, Glenn 1
Friese, Heinrich, 1860-1948 1
Glass, Aaron 1
Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 1
Gunder, Jeane Daniel, 1899- 1
Halpern, Joel M. (Joel Martin), 1929- 1
Hassler, William G. 1
Hayden, Karen C. 1
Hyde Exploring Expedition 1
Hyde, B. T. B. (Benjamin Talbot Babbitt), d. 1933 1
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 1
Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937 1
Jochelson-Brodsky, Dina 1
Jonaitis, Aldona, 1948- 1
K. Perkins 1
Kaston, B. J. (Benjamin Julian), 1906-1985 1
King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862 1
Klots, Alexander B. (Alexander Barrett), 1903-1989 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Lennon, R. E. (Robert E.) 1
Lincoln, Thomas, 1812-1883 1
Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922 1
Mason, Brian (Brian Harold), 1917-2009 1
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
Natural History Museum (London, England) 1
Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924 1
Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 1
Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924 1
Puza, Frank 1
Rabito-Wyppensenwah, Philip 1
Remington, Charles Lee 1
Schuberth, Christopher J. 1
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 1
Seymour, Samuel, active 1797-1822 1
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
Simons, Amory Coffin (1869-1959) 1
Smithsonian Institution 1
Stevens, Orin Alva, 1885-1979 1
Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 1
Thayer, John Eliot, 1862- 1
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1
Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929 1
United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers 1
University of Kansas 1
Vaurie, Charles 1
Wetherill, Richard, 1858-1910 1
Weyer, Edward Moffat, 1904-1998 1
Wilson, Steven C. 1
Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 1
Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest of the American Museum of Natural History (1927) 1
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