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American Museum of Natural History. Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals

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Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Jobe Akeley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A342-.A344
Dates: 1859-1940
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Mary Jobe Akeley papers

Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 25
Scope and Contents

Primarily images from the dioramas in the the AMNH Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals with some interior views of the hall. Includes some images of preparator refurbishing Cheetah Group inside the diorama, 1974. Also includes 5 duplicate slides of black and white photographs depicting Carl Akeley in the field, a group photograph and an illustration of the African Mammal Hall.

Dates: 1949,1974, undated
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals photographic slides

Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell

 Item
Identifier: Mss .C36
Scope and content Typescripts recount two of Campbell's expeditions: to East Africa, Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935; and to the Dunqulah region of Sudan, Dec. 1937-1938(?); primarily to collect specimens for the AMNH. Both reports are undated, and the account for the Sudan expedition appears to be unfinished. The reports mention Campbell's associates and co-leaders: hunter and photographer Alfred J. Klein in East Africa, and hunter Major W.V.D. Dickinson in Sudan. The appendix to the report on the East African...
Dates: 1935 - 1938
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell

Carl and Mary in Africa

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 24
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley East African Expedition, 1926. In the opening sequence, Carl Ethan Akeley (associate in the AMNH Department of Mammalogy, and associate curator and adviser in the AMNH Department of Preparation) watches artist William R. Leigh painting habitat studies for the background of the klipspringer group, one of the dioramas now in the museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. At the campsite, located in the Lukenia Hills 40 miles east of Nairobi, Leigh...
Dates: 1926
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Carl and Mary in Africa

Exhibition Tools and Materials

 Collection
Identifier: Mem 308
Scope and Contents Since its inception in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History had exhibitions related to the natural world, human cultures, and the universe. The habitat dioramas are predominantly featured in the Museum, with the first appearing in the late 1800s. A combination of distinct methods and tools was used to create the background, foreground, and taxidermy specimens that compose these exhibits, which improved with the advancement of technology and new knowledge.The exhibition...
Dates: Usage: circa 1887-1990s
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Exhibition Tools and Materials

Martin Johnson papers, 1923-1942

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .J63- .J65
Dates: (bulk 1923-1937).
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Martin Johnson papers, 1923-1942

Philip Manwaring Plant collection, 1936-1941.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .P53
Dates: 1936 - 1941
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Philip Manwaring Plant collection, 1936-1941.

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
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Preparation Molds for Exhibits

[Rock study for the Klipspringer Group] [art original] / A.A. Jansson

 Item — Frame: 1
Identifier: Art Survey No. 872
Scope and Contents

Painting Jansson made during the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Expedition to British East Africa, 1926-1927. Detail of the Lukenia Hills, forty miles east of Nairobi, with weathered granite rocks and shrubs (possibly Boswellia pyrifera). Facsimiles of the rocks were made for the Kiplinger diorama in the American Museum of Natural History's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. Signed at lower left. On back of canvas: "P.20" (and "P 356" crossed out).

Dates: 1927
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / [Rock study for the Klipspringer Group] [art original] / A.A. Jansson

[Studies for the dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History's African Hall]

 Collection
Identifier: Art Survey No. 275-285
Dates: 1926
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / [Studies for the dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History's African Hall]
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