Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924

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Edmund Otis Hovey United States field photographs

Collection

Identifier: PPC .H6832

Scope and Contents

Includes field photographs of the United States. Photographs are collected in albums, and include captions and negative numbers.

Dates: undated

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Edmund Otis Hovey United States field photographs

Edmund Otis Hovey West Indies field photograph albums

Collection

Identifier: PPC .H683

Scope and Contents

Field photograph albums of West Indies, Mexico, US, Australia, New Zealand, and vicinity. Three handwritten leather-bound notebooks of negative numbers and descriptions from various Hovey expeditions.

Dates: 1897-1911

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Edmund Otis Hovey West Indies field photograph albums

George B. Cluett Auxiliary Schooner in Greenland photographs

Collection

Identifier: PPC .I67

Scope and Contents

An account of the "Cluett's" trip around Greenland. Includes images of the ship, its crew, the surrounding area, indigenous peoples and its winter at Parker Snow Bay, Greenland. Includes a caption list.

Dates: 1915-1916

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / George B. Cluett Auxiliary Schooner in Greenland photographs

Edmund Otis Hovey papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss .H681-.H682

Dates: 1902-1924

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Edmund Otis Hovey papers

Edmund Otis Hovey records

Collection

Identifier: Mss .H683

Scope and Content Note The Edmund Otis Hovey Records collection consists of approximately 50 field notebooks and journals from his and Mrs. Ettie Hovey’s travels around the Caribbean, North America, Europe and the Arctic; as well as, manuscripts of his papers and lectures notes. The collection also includes photographs, postcards, ephemera and newspaper clippings regarding the Crocker Land Expedition that took place from 1913-1917. The collection spans a period of approximately 20 years, beginning in 1890 and...

Dates: 1890-1919

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Edmund Otis Hovey records

Scripts of image titles for motion picture film title cards, 1919-1923.

Collection

Identifier: DR 134

Abstract Contains papers scripts of scene-by-scene descriptions to be used as captions or title cards for silent films, some created by Kineto Films and others by the American Museum of Natural History, the latter including a film made of pictures from the Crocker Land Expedition titled "Life in the Frozen North" with handwritten notations by Edmund Otis Hovey, leader of relief expedition. Also contains some correspondence regarding ordering title cards with formatting requests. Contains small piece...

Dates: 1919 - 1923

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Scripts of image titles for motion picture film title cards, 1919-1923.

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Small, Jonathan ('Jot') (Associative with Related)

Description

AMNH curator of geology, Hovey was named by AMNH to be Chairman of the “Committee in Charge” that supervised Crocker Land from New York. He headed north in 1915 to bring the men home, but hi ship, George B. Cluett, got stuck in the ice and he ended up spending two years in the Arctic with the expedition team.
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) (Associative with Related)

Description

Edmund Hovey was an AMNH curator who acted as chairman of the “Committee in Charge” that supervised the Crocker Land Expedition from New York. He traveled in 1915 to bring the men home and he ended up spending two years in the Arctic.
Allen, Jerome Lee, 1891-1955 (Associative with Related)

Description

AMNH curator of geology, Hovey was named by AMNH to be Chairman of the “Committee in Charge” that supervised Crocker Land from New York. He headed north in 1915 to bring the men home, but was on the George B. Cluett when it got stuck in the ice and he ended up spending two years in the Arctic with the expedition team.
Tanquary, Maurice Cole, 1881-1944 (Associative with Related)

Description

AMNH curator of geology, Hovey was the Chairman of the “Committee in Charge” that supervised Crocker Land from New York. He then traveled in 1915 to bring the men home and spent two years in the Arctic with the expedition team.
Hunt, Harrison J., 1878-1967 (Associative with Related)

Description

Hovey was Chairman of the Committee in Charge of the Crocker Land Expedition and led a relief effort to the site in 1915.
Ekblaw, W. Elmer (Walter Elmer), 1882-1949 (Associative with Related)

Description

AMNH curator of geology, Hovey was named by AMNH to be Chairman of the “Committee in Charge” that supervised Crocker Land from New York. He headed north in 1915 to bring the men home, but he was on the George B. Cluett when it got stuck in the ice and he ended up spending two years in the Arctic with the Expedition.
MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 (Associative with Related)

Description

Hovey was the Chairman of the “Committee in Charge” that supervised Crocker Land from New York. He headed north on the George B. Cluett in 1915 to bring the men home, but the ship got stuck in the ice and Hovey ended up spending two years in the Arctic with MacMillan.
Borup, George, 1885-1912 (Associative with Related)

Description

AMNH curator of geology and mentor to Borup, Hovey was named by AMNH to be chairman of the “Committee in Charge” that supervised the expedition from New York.

External Documents

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Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924

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