American Museum of Natural History
Organization
Found in 693 Collections and/or Records:
AMNH Anthropological studio photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .H87
Scope and Contents
Studio images of human skulls.
Dates:
1923
AMNH Central Archives
Collection
Identifier: DR-CA
Scope and Contents
The AMNH Central Archives consists of 826 boxes of correspondence and materials from the central administrative filing system of American Museum of Natural History, as well as 99 boxes of supporting index materials and card catalogs. Materials cover the overall administration of the museum including but not limited to, construction, finances, expeditions, education programs, reports and minutes, collections, employees, board of trustees, relations with the city, publications, membership, and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1890-1975
An autobiography, with a historical sketch of the founding and early development of the American Museum of Natural History : [microform] / by Albert S. Bickmore.
Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #8
Ancestors: Four Million Years of Humanity photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 90
Scope and Contents
Press slides and contact sheets of the fossils displayed in the temporary exhibition Ancestors: Four Million Years of Humanity, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1984. Gallery 1.
Dates:
1984
And Then There Were None exhibition photographic slides, 1971.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 81E
Abstract
Views of the temporary exhibition And Then There Were None, held at the American Museum of Natural History, October 1971. Images of the multi-media exhibition of endangered species.
Dates:
1971
Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A54
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944. It also contains one folder of family and biographical documents and newspaper clippings received from Charles Gallenkamp, Andrews' biographer, in 1990. The majority of the administrative papers' correspondence concerns requests for speaking engagements about Andrews' explorations, requests for articles, and letters from the public and from companies...
Dates:
1920-1947; Majority of material found within 1934-1944
Angotee
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 128
Scope and Contents
The program contrasts an Eskimo boy, Angotee, with an American boy, his counterpart of the same age. The show opens with Charles Collingwood observing a group of children playing in Central Park and then moves on to the film Angotee, on the life of an Eskimo boy. The story takes place in the Baffin Islands in northern Canada and follows Angotee from birth through marriage and parenting. At five years of age, Angotee learns to build an igloo and he kills his first seal at ten. The high points...
Dates:
1956
Animal behavior
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 92
Scope and Contents
Konrad Lorenz, foremost authority on animal behavior from the University of Muenster in Germany, discusses imprinting and animal behavior on this broadcast. A film is shown in which Lorenz separates a number of greylag goose eggs, imprinting and raising one half by himself, while the others are raised by the goose mother. Lorenz teaches the goslings to swim and fly and also learns to communicate with them. At the end of the experiment, he brings the two groups together and then calls to the...
Dates:
1955
Animal courtship behavior
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 53
Scope and Contents
The courtship behavior of various animals in relation to human behavioral patterns is the topic of discussion for this broadcast. Shown are the stylized, stiff-legged dance of the male stork, the violent fights of male bighorn rams, bison and sea elephants, as well as the posturing habits of the male Australian lyrebird in front of the female, the nuptial flight of the queen bee, and other examples which point out similarities and differences in the forms of courtship behavior between human...
Dates:
1953
Animal life in the desert
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 49
Scope and Contents
Charles M. Bogert, curator of herpetology at the AMNH, conducts a survey of American desert creatures for this broadcast. Hosted by Robert Northshield, the program highlights the struggle for survival by desert animals and current scientific research into mechanisms of heat regulation in reptiles. These cold-blooded animals are shown to adapt to environments with wide temperature fluctuations. Bogert covers the eyes of a snake and observes how the snake's heat sensors enables it to strike a...
Dates:
1953
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192