Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Jobe Akeley papers, 1859-1940, reproduction
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #76
Scope and Contents
Microfilm of Mary Jobe Akeley papers (1859-1940) relating to Mary Jobe Akeley and her husband Carl E. Akeley.
Dates:
Other: 1987
Carl and Mary in Africa
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 24
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley East African Expedition, 1926. In the opening sequence, Carl Ethan Akeley (associate in the AMNH Department of Mammalogy, and associate curator and adviser in the AMNH Department of Preparation) watches artist William R. Leigh painting habitat studies for the background of the klipspringer group, one of the dioramas now in the museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. At the campsite, located in the Lukenia Hills 40 miles east of Nairobi, Leigh...
Dates:
1926
William King Gregory papers, 1889-1948 (bulk 1906-1948)
Collection
Identifier: Mss .G7441
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of administrative, scientific, academic and personal papers, and correspondence. Papers include Gregory's general correspondence with universities, colleges and scientists about his research topics and publications; correspondence with museums about purchasing replicas of fossils; and with students seeking employement. Other papers include lecture notes prepared for zoology classes emphasizing evolution, 1925-1926 and 1939; and manuscripts and notes for his...
Dates:
1889-1948; Majority of material found within 1906-1948
Mary Jobe Akeley photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A426
Scope and Contents
Field photographs taken by Mary Jobe and Carl Akeley which include the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy and other African expeditions, portraitures, and American Museum of Natural History lab views of Carl Akeley's taxidermy.
Dates:
1896-1930s
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192