American Museum of Natural History
Organization
Found in 693 Collections and/or Records:
Catalogue of bones of birds in the American Museum of Natural History
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn16
Scope and Contents
Catalogue of bird bone specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. Entries for each specimen include museum number, original number, name, sex, date, locality, name of collector, name of donor, character of specimen, and remarks. The catalogue spans one volume.
Dates:
1888-1982
Catalogue of casts representing one hundred specimens of antiques found in the mounds of the West : originals collected E.H. Davis. [microform]
Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #13
Scope and Contents
Microfilm of 1874 holograph (1 volume, (16 leaves) ; 21 cm). Catalogue of 103 objects, listed and described on recto of leaves in notebook. The first 47 items are calumets and pipes; the others include objects from Mexico, Central America, and Peru. The entries are also numbered 563-665 in pencil in continuation of: Catalogue of American antiquities collected by Dr. Edwin H. Davis.
On same reel as Davis's Catalogue of American antiquities collected by Dr. Edwin H. Davis.
Dates:
1987
[Catalogue of Recent mollusks] : [microform]
Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #27-28
Dates:
1891 - 1984
Catherine Pessino photographic slides of Mexico
Collection
Identifier: PSC 395
Scope and Contents
Photographs taken in Mexico: Mitla and Monte Alban. Includes architectural details of geometric patterns, close up sections of a painted wall.
Dates:
1953 July
Central African Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 145
Scope and Contents
Filmed during AMNH Central African Expedition, 1948. The film material taken on the AMNH Central African Expedition, 1947-1948, is unedited, raw footage. The five-month-long expedition, led by James Lippitt Clark, AMNH director of preparation and installation, is well-documented in field notes and reports. It is not reflected in the film that the expedition moved haphazardly back and forth among the countries visited: Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo (now Zaire), and French Equatorial Africa...
Dates:
1947-1948
The Central Asiatic Expeditions : fauna
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 146
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The expedition collected zoological specimens throughout Mongolia, but the main collecting was done in the Gobi Desert. This film shows some of the animals that were collected for scientific purposes, as well as those kept as pets. The animals collected includes swans, nightjars, ruddy shelducks, grebes, ducks, gazelles, wild asses, and jerboas. Next are seen the animals "kept" by members of the expedition: an...
Dates:
[1921-1930]
Central Asiatic Expeditions : fossils and artifacts
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 147
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film records the paleontological finds of the expedition. The most important is shown first: the discovery of the "perfect dozen" nest of dinosaur eggs by George Olsen, paleontologist, at the Flaming Cliffs of Shabarakh Usu in the Gobi Desert. Bones of Baluchitherium, one of the largest land mammals, a hornless relative of today's rhinoceros, and Embolitherium, an Oligocene mammal, are also seen being...
Dates:
1925
Central Asiatic Expeditions : maps, staff and transportation
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 148
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film opens with animated maps tracing the routes of the expeditions. Members of the expedition staff are introduced as they work in the field: Roy Chapman Andrews, leader; Walter Granger, chief paleontologist; Albert Thomson, assistant paleontologist; Leslie Erskine Spock, geologist; Alonzo W. Pond, archaeologist; and Captain W. P. T. Hill, topographer. The next segment shows the problems the expedition...
Dates:
1922-1928
The Central Asiatic Expeditions : Peking
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 150
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. Film brought from the U.S. was intended for recording the expedition, but some precious film was used to photograph Peking (now Beijing), the site of the expedition's headquarters. Because of the need to conserve film, this film is choppy, but provides a record of the city in the 1920s. The varied modes of transport are shown: trolleys, ox carts, sedan chairs, rickshaws, camels, wheelbarrows, horsedrawn...
Dates:
1922-1928
Central Asiatic Expeditions records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents
This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates:
1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933
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