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Found in 124 Collections and/or Records:

Papua New Guinea: Then and Now exhibition photographic slides, circa 1978.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 157H
Abstract

Views of the temporary exhibition Papua New Guinea: Then and Now, held at the American Museum of Natural History. Includes displays and exhibits shown in the gallery.

Dates: circa 1978

Patanal: Brazil's Forgotten Wilderness exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 157D
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition Patanal: Brazil's Forgotten Wilderness, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1993. Akeley Gallery. Featured color photographs documenting rare plant and animal life in Brazil threatened with extinction.

Dates: 1993 July 15

Peru's Golden Treasures exhibition photographic slides, 1977-1978.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 103B
Abstract

Views of the temporary exhibition Peru's Golden Treasures, a traveling show which opened at the American Museum of Natural History, October 1977.

Dates: 1977-1978

Planetary sciences photographic slides, circa 1960-1990s.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 45
Abstract

Slides from old Hayden Planetarium including the Hall of the Sun exhibits, murals, art and Zeiss projector. Images of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, moon rocks and moon surface, sun spots, stars, constellations, eclipse, galaxy, nebulas. Total solar eclipse from February 16, 1980, taken at Voi, Kenya, Africa. Eclipse of the moon dated March 13, 1960. Jay Barbree Space Collection includes astronaut medallions, matches, boxes, patches. Many images of Planetarium sculpture (Michelle Doner).

Dates: circa 1960-1990s

Pow Wow Now exhibition photographic slides, 1996.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 98
Abstract

Views from the temporary exhibition Pow Wow Now, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1996. Includes displays, wall texts and multi-media exhibits.

Dates: 1996

Primates: The Jean Baulu Collection of Antique Prints exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 613A
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition, Primates: The Jean Baulu Collection of Antique Prints, held at the American Museum of Natural History, January-February 1999, Library Gallery.

Dates: 1999

Pterosaur exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 103D
Scope and Contents

Views of the Pterosaur model, 51 feet wide by 30 feet long, temporarily exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, 1975. Includes a teacher with class viewing the model.

Dates: 1975

Public Health Hall photographic slides, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 72
Abstract

Slides of models and exhibits from the old AMNH Public Health Hall. Model of House Fly and Malarial Mosquito.

Dates: undated

Puppets: Dance and Drama of the Orient exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 103A
Scope and Contents

Slides of the temporary exhibition Puppets: Dance and Drama of the Orient, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1974. Images of Pacific dance masks and puppets, along with diplays in the exhibit. Includes shadow figures, scenes of Ramayana and Mahabarota, Thai performers, Malaysian figures and Chinese shadow puppets.

Dates: 1974-1975

Purposeful Traveler: Titian Ramsay Peale exhibition photographic slides, 1996.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 99C
Abstract

Views of the temporary exhibition Purposeful Traveler: Titian Ramsay Peale, held at the American Museum of Natural History Library Gallery, 1996. Includes display cases, framed illustrations and copy slides of illustrations.

Dates: 1996