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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Archives collections belonging to and managed by the Museum's Department of Ornithology.

Found in 198 Collections and/or Records:

Chapman Not Approved' Card Files; Chapman Misc.; Mae P. Smith and Sanford Trust card files

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn24
Scope and Contents

Card files on proposals for studies that were not accepted. The second file drawer contains Chapman misc., Mae P. Smith, and Sanford Trust card files.

Dates: 1970s-1990s

Charles and Chester Reed collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn255
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, various printed published matter including guides on taxidermy, plant and bird field guides, image cards and card games, pocket libraries, newspaper clippings, and journals. Also includes a set of Wild Flowers of America (volumes 1-18)



Dates: 1890s-

Charles O'Brien's card file of old gifts and exchanges and old equipment lists

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn11a
Scope and Contents

Cards containing information on exchange to other institutions and equipment

Dates: 1910s-1950s

Charles Vaurie collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn117
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, data cards, itineraries, photographs related to Tibetan bird specimens; data sheets, correspondence, notes regarding Furnariid monograph; Furnariidae gazetteer; Tibetan gazetteer

Dates: 1960s-1970s

Charles William Beebe collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn204
Scope and Contents

Catalogs of bird skins; notes on nest and egg collections. Collections from Guyana.

Dates: 1898-1915

Chester Van Buren collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn116
Scope and Contents

Report on collection of birds made by Chester Van Buren, principally in Colombia and Guatemala, systematic lists, correspondence and memos.

Dates: circa early 1900s, 1940s

Choco Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn154
Scope and Contents

Field reports, manuscript, correspondence, slides and photo, lists of publications.

Dates: 1937, undated

Collection of audio and video recordings of bird songs

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn234
Scope and Contents

Vinyl albums (33, 78, 45), audio cassettes-both commercial and non-commercial), compact disc, vhs tapes, and dvds. Also found are misc. publications including Christmas poems, discography of bird recordings, book on bird songs.

Dates: 1923-2007

Collins-Day Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn155
Scope and Contents

Correspondence

Dates: 1914-1916

Colombian Expeditions collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn156
Scope and Contents

Field catalogs representing field specimen numbers 1-3972 (1911-1912), 10001-11705 (1914-1915), report of Mr. Arthur A. Allen, correspondence

Dates: 1910-1915