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Found in 693 Collections and/or Records:

Big cats

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 133
Scope and Contents Big Cats is the title of this program broadcast live from the Bronx Zoo (i.e. New York Zoological Park). Richard Mandel, the mammal curator at the zoo, is the guest. The program shows viewers how tigers, jaguars and leopards live in captivity. Film footage showing the captures of these big cats augment the discussion. Mountain lions found in the U.S. are seen being captured with the help of dogs. Films provided by the Missouri Conservation Commission and Twentieth Century Fox include an...
Dates: 1956
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Big cats

Bird brains

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 87
Scope and Contents Robert Cushman Murphy, AMNH ornithologist, is a guest on this program. The topic under discussion is the intelligence of birds and their relative lack of intelligence in relation to other creatures. Demonstrations in the studio include live specimens and models, with a presentation of performing African lovebirds. Murphy argues that, despite claims that species such as talking parrots, parakeets, and mynas are intelligent, most birds rank low in intelligence, usually just above reptiles....
Dates: 1954
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Bird brains

Birds of paradise and spiders (beauty and the beast)

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 95
Scope and Contents SEGMENT 1: Birds of Paradise. Ernest Thomas Gilliard, AMNH curator of birds, joins Charles Collingwood to discuss birds of paradise as examples of beauty. Gilliard led an expedition to New Guinea in 1953-54 to study the birds of paradise, found almost exclusively in New Guinea. Their uses in native costume are shown. A large photographic blow-up of the birds is used as a backdrop for the discussion in the studio. SEGMENT 2: Spiders. Demonstrating the beauty and the beast in nature, this...
Dates: 1955
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Birds of paradise and spiders (beauty and the beast)

Body Art: Marks of Identity exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 669-670
Scope and Contents

Photographs for the temporary exhibition Body Art: Marks of Identity, held at the American Museum of Natural History, November 20, 1999-May 29, 2000. 669. Studio photographs of artifacts displayed in gallery. 670. Views of the installed exhibition. Also includes exhibit documentation and construction.

Dates: 1999-2000
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Body Art: Marks of Identity exhibition photographic slides

Boekelman Shell Heap Expedition photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .B631
Scope and Contents

Field photographs mainly of shell heaps and indigenous peoples taken during the Boekelman Shell Heap Expedition of 1931.

Dates: 1931
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Boekelman Shell Heap Expedition photographs

Brooklyn Institute collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn212
Scope and Contents

Catalog of specimens from Brooklyn Institute Collection numbers 1-9382 and AMNH museum accession book, numbers 10001-15000.

Dates: 1880-1931
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / Brooklyn Institute collection

Buddhism

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 126
Scope and Contents The setting for this broadcast is a Buddhist temple in Farmingdale, New Jersey, in a community where 160 Tibetan political and religious refugees have settled. Buddhist rituals, customs, and special New Year's day celebrations are observed as the community celebrates its freedom. Filmed studies of Buddhist temples in Asia, statues of Buddha, a boy becoming a Buddhist monk, pilgrims praying, and death and cremation, visually enhance this examination of Buddhism. Geshe Wangyal, professor of...
Dates: 1956
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Buddhism

Butterfly Conservatory photographic slides, 1998-2000.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 662
Abstract

Views of the Butterfly Conservatory exhibition at the AMNH. Images of museum visitors and displays, as well as close up photographs of butterflies. Also includes a set of photographs of tropical butterflies alive in winter credited to Joel Cracraft and AMNH.

Dates: 1998-2000
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Butterfly Conservatory photographic slides, 1998-2000.

C. Coloes photographic slide of an orchid, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 175
Abstract

Photograph of an orchid, Cattleya Trianae.

Dates: undated
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / C. Coloes photographic slide of an orchid, undated.

C. H. Watson photographic slides of tomato worms, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 536
Abstract

Three photographs of tomato worms infested by parasites on a leaf on the ground.

Dates: undated
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / C. H. Watson photographic slides of tomato worms, undated.
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