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Aztec Mexico: Discovery of Templo Mayor photographic slides, 1982.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 92
Abstract

Studio photographs of excavated artifacts used in the temporary exhibition Aztec Mexico: Discovery of Templo Mayor, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1982. Also includes images of the site as it stands and renderings. Among the artifacts are a few views of the Coyolxauhqui stone. Images may have been used for publications and articles.

Dates: 1982
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Aztec Mexico: Discovery of Templo Mayor photographic slides, 1982.

Barbara Neill photographic slides of reptiles and lightening bugs, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 382
Abstract

Photographs include close up images of lightening bugs, American toad, ringneck snake, eastern painted turtle, and a black racer emerging from an egg.

Dates: undated
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Barbara Neill photographic slides of reptiles and lightening bugs, undated.

Bears: Imagination and Reality exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 157F
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition Bears: Imagination and Reality, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1993. Includes visitors viewing dioramas, displays and exhibits.

Dates: 1993 August 19
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Bears: Imagination and Reality exhibition photographic slides

Bees

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 111
Scope and Contents Charles Collingwood examines the world of bees in this segment. Along with live bees brought into the studio, Collingwood walks the viewers through a beehive. Two films, one produced in Russia and one produced by Karl von Frisch after 40 years of research on bees, are shown. Frisch (1886-1982), an Austrian, was a leading authority on animal behavior. Bees are seen foraging for food and dancing to identify food locations. The social structure of the hive and the role of the queen bee are...
Dates: 1955
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Bees

Bees (Russian film)

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 54
Scope and Contents This program presents a film produced in the Soviet Union as propaganda celebrating the "hive." Host Charles Collingwood first looks at the film without its soundtrack, as a natural history film, and then comments on its use as a propaganda film. Viewed from a historical perspective, the McCarthy era and Cold War mentality of Americans is evident and provides an interesting angle to the subject at hand. Soviet scientists produced a beautifully photographed film on the life of a bee in a...
Dates: 1954
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Bees (Russian film)

Behavior of bees ; The legend of Colonel P.H. Fawcett

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 29
Scope and Contents SEGMENT 1: Behavior of Bees. Bees are examined in the first segment of this program. Theodore C. Schneirla, AMNH entomologist, discusses their behavior, including the dances bees perform which give food location information to other members of the hive. Dances of the Bees, by Wilner Film and Slides, is shown. SEGMENT 2: The Legend of Colonel P. H. Fawcett. The mysterious disappearance in 1925 of Colonel P. H. Fawcett is the next topic of discussion. Fawcett was searching for a lost city in...
Dates: 1953
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Behavior of bees ; The legend of Colonel P.H. Fawcett

Belgian Congo, French West Africa Expedition field photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .C66
Scope and Contents

Field photographs taken of gorillas and indigenous peoples in Africa.

Dates: 1929-1931
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Belgian Congo, French West Africa Expedition field photographs

Belgian Congo's Hamba tribe

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 121
Scope and Contents The noted anthropologist Luc de Heusch recorded various rites of the Hamba tribe of the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) for this program. Celebration of the Hamba, the English title of de Heusch's film, documents the ritual of the "leopardmen," the initiation of young men into the ranks of the warriors, some festivals, and the ceremony of a native divorce. Body painting, dancing, costumes, music, and feasts are depicted in detail. Harry Tschopik, curator of ethnology at the AMNH, was a consultant...
Dates: 1956
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Belgian Congo's Hamba tribe

Albert S. Bickmore papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .B5351- .B5358
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, reports, newspaper clippings and photocopies of journal articles, photographs of Bickmore, and one drawing. The bulk of Bickmore's papers (32 boxes) consists of correspondence, mostly typewritten, relating to his work as superintendent of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and curator of the Dept. of Public Education. Additional material consists of handwritten diaries from Bickmore's travels; the typescript of his...
Dates: 1854-1914; Majority of material found within ( 1865-1903)
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Albert S. Bickmore papers

Big Bear's Medicine Bundle photographic slides, 1987.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 589
Abstract

Photographs of Big Bear's medicine bundle (Plains/Cree). The Cree medicine bundle is comprised of a canvas bag over several layers of calico cloth. In it are a bear paw mounted on red flannel, a bundle of sweet grass and a plug of tobacco.

Dates: 1987
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Big Bear's Medicine Bundle photographic slides, 1987.
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