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Central Asiatic Expeditions : fossils and artifacts

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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
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library

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
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library

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
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library

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
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library

Cerro de la Neblina Expedition photographic slides, 1984 - 1989

 Series
Identifier: PSC 1
Scope and Contents

Field photographs from the 1984-1985 Cerro de la Neblina expedition. Includes one slide from Amazonas, Rio Mavaca Base Camp, March 1989.

Dates: 1984 - 1989
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / AMNH 35mm Photographic Slide collection

Charles M. Bogert photographic slide collection, 1940 - 1960

 Series
Identifier: PSC 135
Scope and Contents

Field photographs consisting mostly of reptiles, amphibians including frogs, toads, turtles, snakes, salamanders and lizards. Collection also includes photographs of California Indians.

Dates: 1940 - 1960
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / AMNH 35mm Photographic Slide collection

Charles R. Knight mural restoration project photographic slides, 1993

 Series
Identifier: PSC 40
Scope and Contents

35mm slides and medium format color transparencies of murals before restoration. Unknown location of murals. Animals depicted include moose, elephants and beavers.

Dates: 1993
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / AMNH 35mm Photographic Slide collection

Charles Vaurie photographic slide collection, 1949

 Series
Identifier: PSC 533
Abstract

Photographs taken mostly in Bimini Islands and Cuba of landscapes, seascapes, fish, and other marine life. Also includes travel photography of Upper Falls, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Lake, Devil's Tower, Waterton Lakes National Park, and Banff National Park.

Dates: 1949
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / AMNH 35mm Photographic Slide collection

Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch exhibition photographic slides, 1991

 Series
Identifier: PSC 104
Scope and Contents

View of the temporary exhibition Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch, held at the American Museum of Natural History, Ocober 1991- February 1992. Also includes studio photographs of masks and artifacts.

Dates: 1991
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / AMNH 35mm Photographic Slide collection

Chiefly Feasts: the Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch photographic slide collection, 1992

 Series
Identifier: PSC 525
Scope and Contents

Studio photographs of artifacts for the publication, Chiefly Feasts: the Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch.

Dates: 1992
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / AMNH 35mm Photographic Slide collection
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