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AMNH Temporary Exhibit Press Kit Collection
Collection
Identifier: DR-103a
Content Description
Temporary Exhibition Press Kits containing press releases, images and media transferred from the Communications Department.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2006 - 2018
Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A48
Scope and Contents
Images of the polar flight expedition undertaken by Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1925; the transpolar flight of Amundsen, Ellsworth, and Umberto Nobile in 1926; and an exhibition documenting the 1926 expedition at the American Museum of Natural History in 1930.
Dates:
1925-1930
An unknown race
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 283
Scope and Contents
John A. Haeseler and Captain Melville William Hilton-Simpson, fellows of the Royal Geographic Society, made this film, which records the culture of the Berbers of the Aures Mountains of Algeria. The impenetrable massif of the Aures Mountains has helped the Berber people maintain their ancient manners and customs. This film depicts the geography of the Aures, Roman ruins at Timgad, the Tighanimine gorge, and the villages built on the tops of escarpments overlooking the Sahara with only a...
Dates:
1924
Anatomy, biology, and domestic economy photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A53
Scope and Contents
Photographs and copies of figures and diagrams from publications on anatomy, biology and domestic economy mounted on filecards.
Dates:
1920-1937
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
Andrey Avinoff photograph collection, undated
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A95
Scope and Contents
Specimen photographs of Lepidoptera, Moeschler and Jamaica Lepidoptera.
Dates:
undated
Angkor
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 215
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Morden Expedition to Africa and Asia, 1922-1924. Filmed during an expedition led by William James Morden to East Africa, Uganda, the Sudan, India, Burma, Kashmir, Tibet, Sikkim, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Indochina, the Temples of Angkor Wat, Japan, and China from 1922-1924. During this expedition, made before his affiliation with the AMNH, William James Morden visited the ruins of the ancient Cambodian city of Angkor, which were filmed by the expedition cameraman, Herford...
Dates:
1922-1924
Angotee
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 128
Scope and Contents
The program contrasts an Eskimo boy, Angotee, with an American boy, his counterpart of the same age. The show opens with Charles Collingwood observing a group of children playing in Central Park and then moves on to the film Angotee, on the life of an Eskimo boy. The story takes place in the Baffin Islands in northern Canada and follows Angotee from birth through marriage and parenting. At five years of age, Angotee learns to build an igloo and he kills his first seal at ten. The high points...
Dates:
1956
Animal behavior
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 92
Scope and Contents
Konrad Lorenz, foremost authority on animal behavior from the University of Muenster in Germany, discusses imprinting and animal behavior on this broadcast. A film is shown in which Lorenz separates a number of greylag goose eggs, imprinting and raising one half by himself, while the others are raised by the goose mother. Lorenz teaches the goslings to swim and fly and also learns to communicate with them. At the end of the experiment, he brings the two groups together and then calls to the...
Dates:
1955
Animal courtship behavior
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 53
Scope and Contents
The courtship behavior of various animals in relation to human behavioral patterns is the topic of discussion for this broadcast. Shown are the stylized, stiff-legged dance of the male stork, the violent fights of male bighorn rams, bison and sea elephants, as well as the posturing habits of the male Australian lyrebird in front of the female, the nuptial flight of the queen bee, and other examples which point out similarities and differences in the forms of courtship behavior between human...
Dates:
1953
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- Vernay, Arthur Stannard, 1877-1960 6
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 5
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- Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969 5
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 5
- Stout, Gardner D. 5
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 5
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- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 3
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