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Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A54
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944. It also contains one folder of family and biographical documents and newspaper clippings received from Charles Gallenkamp, Andrews' biographer, in 1990. The majority of the administrative papers' correspondence concerns requests for speaking engagements about Andrews' explorations, requests for articles, and letters from the public and from companies...
Dates: 1920-1947; Majority of material found within 1934-1944

George Borup correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .B67

Field and Expedition Equipment

 Collection
Identifier: Mem 305
Scope and Contents Since 1887, the American Museum of Natural History has been conducting field expeditions in every continent. This is one of the main resources for the Museum’s scientific research and collection development activities throughout all its disciplines. This grouping holds the equipment that were used during expeditions from around 1877 to 1996. Most of these expeditions required direct interaction with the natural habitat of the subject of study, which usually involves being out in the...
Dates: Usage: circa 1877-1990s

Robert Peary photographic slides of North Pole copied from lantern slides, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 394
Abstract

Photographic copies of the lantern slides made by Robert Peary during his expedition to the North Pole (1908-1909). Used to raise money for further exploration.

Dates: undated

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  • Names: Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 X

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Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 3
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 2
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 2
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 2
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Lee, Hugh J. 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
Archbold, Richard 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Baynes, Ernest Harold, 1868-1925 1
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
Borup, George, 1885-1912 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 1
Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 1
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
Department of Anthropology 1
Department of Exhibition 1
Dodge Brothers 1
Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951 1
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
Hayden Planetarium 1
Heinz 1
Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 1
Johnson, J. M. (Mr.) 1
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947) 1
Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953) 1
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States 1
Nyholm, N. Erik I. 1
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
Patagonian Expedition (1899-1900) 1
Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955 1
Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 1
Sanford Memorial Hall of the Biology of Birds 1
Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 1
Skinner, Morris F. 1
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 1
Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 1
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 1
Wilkins, George H., Sir (George Hubert), 1888-1958 1
Young, John McKenzie 1
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