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Found in 302 Collections and/or Records:

James Perry Wilson at Devil's Tower and miscellaneous expeditions

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 55
Scope and Contents

One slide of James Perry Wilson painting at Devil's Tower, Wyoming. Other miscellaneous expeditions images include the Yangtze River, excavating the skeleton of a brontosaurus, a Blue Giant Anole lizard, and a Greta Cubana butterfly.

Dates: undated

Jane Singer photographic slide collection, circa 1960s-1970s.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 443
Abstract

Nature photographs of Grand Teton National Park, geyser in Yellowstone National Park, and Lake Louise in Banff National Park. Also includes two photographs of a pond lily.

Dates: circa 1960s-1970s

Jean B. Thorpe photographic slide collection, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 518
Abstract

Travel photographs taken mostly of animals in Africa including lions, hyena, African buffalo, elephants, leopards, cheetahs, a hippopotamus, crocodiles, zebras, and a black rhinoceros. Also includes a few images of women spinning silk in Cyprus and one slide taken in Kashgai, Pakistan, of a donkey with two riders and their possessions.

Dates: undated

Jean Shor photographic slide collection, 1951-1952.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 437
Abstract

Photographs depicting daily life and work in Cyprus and of Kashgai tribe in Iran. Includes images of street markets and farm work in East Pakistan.

Dates: 1951-1952

Joanne Mirabile photographic slides of zoo animals, 1963.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 357
Abstract

Two photographs of an otter and pygmy hippopotamus at the New York Zoological Park (Bronx Zoo).

Dates: 1963

John James Audubon: Science Into Art photographic slides, 1985.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 89B
Abstract

Slides of prints displayed in the temporary exhibition John James Audubon: Science Into Art, held at the American Museum of Natural History, April-July 1985 in the Naturemax Gallery. Includes photographs of an individual hand pressing an original copper plate and applying color to "Wild Turkey, Male.".

Dates: 1985

John James Audubon: Science Into Art plate restoration, press and hand-applied color photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 102A
Scope and Contents

Slides of a restoration of an Audubon "Birds of America" plate and photographs of an individual hand pressing an original copper plate and applying color to "Wild Turkey, Male".

Dates: circa 1985

John Orth photographic slides of animals, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 389
Abstract

Photographs of animals including a beaver at Bear Mountain (New York), cows eating grass, rabbits feeding, and fawns.

Dates: undated

John R. Saunders photographic slide collection, 1957.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 426
Abstract

Photographs of animals, plants, and views from Mt. Desert Biological Station (Salisbury Cove, Maine). Animals include harbor seals, raccoons, bears, a screech owl, starfish, jellyfish, crabs, and mussels. Majority of the photographs taken in Maine, some taken in New York.

Dates: 1957

John T. Nichols: Naturalist at Large exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 85E
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition John T. Nichols: Naturalist at Large, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1989. Images of the display case in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda. Also includes images of books in a library, a man reading and people examining a book in an office.

Dates: 1989