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Museum exhibits -- Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:

Planetary sciences photographic slides, circa 1960-1990s.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 45
Abstract

Slides from old Hayden Planetarium including the Hall of the Sun exhibits, murals, art and Zeiss projector. Images of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, moon rocks and moon surface, sun spots, stars, constellations, eclipse, galaxy, nebulas. Total solar eclipse from February 16, 1980, taken at Voi, Kenya, Africa. Eclipse of the moon dated March 13, 1960. Jay Barbree Space Collection includes astronaut medallions, matches, boxes, patches. Many images of Planetarium sculpture (Michelle Doner).

Dates: circa 1960-1990s

Pow Wow Now exhibition photographic slides, 1996.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 98
Abstract

Views from the temporary exhibition Pow Wow Now, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1996. Includes displays, wall texts and multi-media exhibits.

Dates: 1996

Primates: The Jean Baulu Collection of Antique Prints exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 613A
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition, Primates: The Jean Baulu Collection of Antique Prints, held at the American Museum of Natural History, January-February 1999, Library Gallery.

Dates: 1999

Pterosaur exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 103D
Scope and Contents

Views of the Pterosaur model, 51 feet wide by 30 feet long, temporarily exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, 1975. Includes a teacher with class viewing the model.

Dates: 1975

Public Health Hall photographic slides, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 72
Abstract

Slides of models and exhibits from the old AMNH Public Health Hall. Model of House Fly and Malarial Mosquito.

Dates: undated

Puppets: Dance and Drama of the Orient exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 103A
Scope and Contents

Slides of the temporary exhibition Puppets: Dance and Drama of the Orient, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1974. Images of Pacific dance masks and puppets, along with diplays in the exhibit. Includes shadow figures, scenes of Ramayana and Mahabarota, Thai performers, Malaysian figures and Chinese shadow puppets.

Dates: 1974-1975

Purposeful Traveler: Titian Ramsay Peale exhibition photographic slides, 1996.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 99C
Abstract

Views of the temporary exhibition Purposeful Traveler: Titian Ramsay Peale, held at the American Museum of Natural History Library Gallery, 1996. Includes display cases, framed illustrations and copy slides of illustrations.

Dates: 1996

Rare Beauty: America's Endangered Plants exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 613E
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition, Rare Beauty: America's Endangered Plants, held at the American Museum of Natural History, July 15-October 4, 1998, Akeley Gallery.

Dates: 1998 June

Reaching for the Stars exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 668C
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition Reaching for the Stars, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 2000. Akeley Gallery.

Dates: 2000 March

Richard Hunt carving totem pole at the American Museum of Natural History, 1992.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 85H
Abstract

Slides of Richard Hunt, direct descendant of George Hunt, carving and painting a totem pole during the Chiefly Feasts temporary exhibition held at the American Museum of Natural History. Images include museum visitors viewing Hunt working and finished exhibition location in the 77th Street entrance hall across from the Haida canoe.

Dates: 1992