T. Donald Carter audio collection
Scope and Content Note
The T. Donald Carter Audio Collection includes two audio reels.
Dates
- 1953
Creator
Access Conditions and Restrictions Note
Requests to use the collection should be made in advance to the Senior Special Collections Librarian, who may be contacted at 212-769-5420 or at [email protected]
Biographical Note
T. Donald Carter was a zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History: research assistant 1920- and assistant curator 1944-1960, AMNH Dept. of Mammalogy. T. Donald Carter played an important role in the development of the Asian, African, and North American Halls. Carter was assistant at the New York Zoological Society, 1913-1916. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and spent a year with the Pigeon Service of the Signal Corps. After his retirement in 1960, Carter raised wild ducks and other birds at his 136-acre home in Kinnelon, N.J., near Boonton.
Extent
1 Linear Foot (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquistion Note
Gift of Patricia Ammon Kissinger, 1991.
Condition Note
Good.
General Physical Description Note
The collection consists of two magnetic audio reels.
Creator
- Title
- T. Donald Carter audio collection, 1953
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Richard T. Fischer
- Date
- May 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Finding aid created with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Hidden Collections grant, 2012.
- Edition statement
- Information for this finding aid expanded on the original catalog record written by Ann Herendeen, 2004.
Repository Details
Part of the Research Library Special Collections Repository
American Museum of Natural History
Library Services, Special Collections
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New York 10024-5192 USA US
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