American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
Francis Lee Jaques field diaries and sketchbooks
Collection
Identifier: Mss .J37
Summary
Francis Lee Jaques (28 September 1887-24 July 1969), also known as Lee Jaques, is celebrated for his diorama paintings at the American Museum of Natural History, executed during the early and mid-twentieth century. A frequent collaborator with Museum curator and ornithologist Frank M. Chapman (1864-1945), the artist is especially associated with the Whitney Memorial Hall of Pacific Bird Life (that was co-designed with Robert Cushman Murphy, Museum curator and ornithologist). This collection...
Dates:
1925-1935
Preparation Molds for Exhibits
Collection
Identifier: Mem 306
Scope and Contents
Molds for exhibits were created and used to prepare the models that compose the exhibits of the American Museum of Natural history, approximately from 1889 to the 1990s, first by the science departments and then by the Department of Exhibition and its different iterations. Models were meant to reproduce existing and extinct animal specimens, humans and cultural artifacts, insects and plant life. The types of mold that can be found in this grouping provide insight on the methods employed to...
Dates:
Usage: circa 1889-1990s
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- Birds -- Exhibitions 2
- Department Records 2
- Amphibians 1
- Anthropology 1
- Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 1
- Artists 1
- Botany 1
- Construction 1
- Diaries 1
- Dinosaurs -- Models 1
- Diorama 1
- Exhibitions 1
- Fishes 1
- Herpetology 1
- Ichthyology 1
- Invertebrates 1
- Mammals -- Exhibitions 1
- Manuscript Collection 1
- Museum construction 1
- Museum exhibits 1
- Museum techniques 1
- Natural history museums -- Employees 1
- North America 1
- Ornithology 1
- Ornithology -- United States 1
- Paleontology -- Exhibitions 1
- Scientific expeditions 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions 1
- Sipán (Peru) -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions 1
- Voyages and travels 1 ∧ less
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American Museum of Natural History
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New York, NY 10024-5192