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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:

Department of Ornithology files

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn2
Scope and Contents

This collection includes agreements with publishers, miscellaneous manuscripts, unpublished manuscripts or data on deposit at the AMNH. Catalogs 1-20 by collector.

Dates: 1941-2005

Department of Ornithology gifts and exchanges files

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn7
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of folders pertaining to exchanges and gifts.

Dates: 1920s-2000s

Department of Ornithology historic correspondence 'A-Z' collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn5
Scope and Contents

Historic correspondence files organized from A to Z and include articles, photographs (one slide), biographical information, bird lists and field notes. Also includes articles, expedition histories, oral history.

Dates: 1865-2002, undated

Department of Ornithology history collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn1
Scope and Contents

Papers and reports relating to the construction of the Whitney Wing. Files pertaining to staff meetings, budgets, department equipment. Ornithology department staff photographs are in plastic sleeves.

Dates: 1888-1986

Department of Ornithology Philippine specimen collection materials

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn86
Scope and Contents

Contains correpondence, documents, Palawan lists of bird skins, lists of syntypes from Steere Expedition, list of Philippine holotypes in AMNH collection, lists of species found in Luzon collection, documents relating to Leyte collection, and documents relating to Mindoro collection.

Dates: circa 1950s-1980s

Department of Ornithology specimen collections files

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn23
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, acquistion history and inventories of the specimen collections.

Dates: 1950s-2003

Department of Ornithology unframed prints collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn58
Scope and Contents

Archaeopteryx (1), engraved copperplates, paintings, engraved prints, drawings, membership certificates to scientific and academic institutions, oil sketches, lithographic portrait of D.G. Elliot. Works, mostly prints, by other artists include Janet Marshall, Siedel, Jaques, Joseph Wolf, Roger Tory Peterson, an oil sketch by Toshio Asaeda, two bound sets of the Cockatoo portfolio plates by William T. Cooper and limited edition color prints from Mill Pond Press, Florida.

Dates: undated

Dr. R. Malbrant collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn138
Scope and Contents

List of birds received from Dr. Malbrant in 1945; list of collecting localities with map coordinates

Dates: 1945

Dutcher collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn189
Scope and Contents

Catalog of William Dutcher collection of birds given to AMNH by Linnean Society of New York and includes corrrespondence.

Dates: 1888, 1927

Dwight collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn160
Scope and Contents

List of specimens, duplicates, collecting localities and source of accession

Dates: 1920s