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35mm Photographic Slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 1-679
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a library of 35mm slides covering a wide range of topics, along with some supporting materials. The collection includes field work photographs from expeditions, collection and specimen imagery, AMNH photo studio images of buildings, events, and exhibit photographs, and more. Some slides duplicate negative and print collections.

Dates: 1935 - 2003

1940 Arizona expedition

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 250
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Arizona Expedition, 1940. Richard Archbold, AMNH research associate in mammalogy, organized this six-month-long expedition to collect all the elements for an Arizona group for the museum's Hall of North American Mammals. Animal behavior experiments were also conducted. Archbold was accompanied by A. L. Rand, AMNH research associate in ornithology, and photographer J. Lichtenfels. Expedition staff members are introduced in the film's opening sequence. Scenes of the...
Dates: 1940

A day with John Burroughs

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 171
Scope and Contents John Burroughs (1837-1921), author and naturalist, is filmed going about his daily routine at his home, Woodchuck Lodge, in the Catskill Mountains. This film is unique for the time as it was filmed in color; it is the earliest color film in the collection. It was made using a process called "prizma" color, in which both sides of the positive film were coated with emulsion; one side was dyed blue and green, the other side red and yellow. When projected together the image is in natural color...
Dates: 1919

A little journey through Iran

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 183
Scope and Contents A Little Journey through Iran is a record of the Dyers' travels through that country. Included in the film are magnificent shots of the Tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae, and the tombs of the other Achaemeni kings, Darius I, Darius II and Xerxes, and the nearby ruins of Persepolis. The Dyers also visited and filmed Esfahan, Shiraz, and the port city of Bandar Abbas, where the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf meet. Footage of Persian women in brightly colored clothes and veils, an oasis...
Dates: 1971

Abyssinia

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 163
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Field Museum-Chicago Daily News Abyssinian Expedition, 1926-1927. The film was made by Charles Suydam Cutting, with the assistance of scientist Alfred M. Bailey. The expedition party also included Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the noted ornithologist and artist, who was killed shortly after this expedition in a tragic automobiletrain collision. The film opens with Arussi Galla women washing themselves and their clothes in the river Awash. Scientists are seen in camp and, as James...
Dates: 1926-1927

Adventures on the Upper Nile

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 2
Scope and Contents Charles Oliver O'Donnell (AMNH fellow) and James Lippitt Clark (AMNH vice-director of preparation and exhibition) traveled by steamer, in 1931, up the Nile from Khartoum to Shambe in the Sudan to collect giant eland for the AMNH Hall of African Mammals. Most of the footage was taken from the steamer, and consists of panoramic views of life along the Nile, and of the activities of the expedition staff and the shikaris (native hunters) on board ship. Expedition staff appearing in the film are:...
Dates: 1931

Afghan Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History field photographs, 1950-1951

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .A38
Scope and Contents

Field photographs from the Afghan Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History.

Dates: 1950-1951

Afrique equatoriale : Tchad

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 176
Scope and Contents This film provides a general overview of the various peoples of Chad, including footage of Bolong Tam Tam (men dancing in circular formation); warriors of Mokoulou; Jeram Hatab, Sultan of the Dangaleats at Korbo; and the Mokoulous' Sultan Kabir; the landscape of Chad with market scenes at Moyto Hadjerai; wells in the Hadjeri land in the north central region of the country; the oasis of Fada; Mount Fada; and Zakourna National Park. Indigenous animals seen in the film are dromedaries,...
Dates: 1963

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Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 869
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American Museum of Natural History 186
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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 30
Division of Invertebrate Zoology 23
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 22
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Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 22
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 21
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Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 18
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 17
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 16
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 15
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 15
Hayden Planetarium 15
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 14
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 11
Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 11
Department of Entomology 11
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 11
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 10
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 10
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 10
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 9
Brown, Barnum 9
Department of Exhibition 9
Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949 9
Vernay, Arthur Stannard, 1877-1960 9
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 8
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 8
Shackelford, James B. 8
Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 8
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 7
Department of Ichthyology 7
Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951 7
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 7
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 7
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 7
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 7
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 6
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 6
Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 6
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 6
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 6
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 6
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 6
Klein, Alfred J. 6
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 6
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 6
Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 6
Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 6
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 6
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 5
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 5
Chubb, S. Harmsted (Samuel Harmsted), 1863-1949 5
Day Roraima Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1927-1928) 5
Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969 5
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 5
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 5
Miller, Leo E. (Leo Edward), 1887-1952 5
Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 5
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 5
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 5
Stout, Gardner D. 5
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 4
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 4
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 4
American Museum of Natural History. Office of Public Affairs 4
Asaeda, Toshio 4
Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 4
Brown, F. Martin (Frederick Martin), 1903-1993 4
Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 4
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 4
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 4
Department of Animal Behavior 4
Department of Anthropology 4
Legendre Indochina Expedition (1931-1932) 4
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 4
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 4
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 4
Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 4
Olsen, Chris E., 1880-1965 4
Sage West China Expedition (1934) 4
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 4
Short, Lester L. 4
Smithsonian Institution 4
Stunkard, Horace W. (Horace Wesley), 1889-1989 4
Tate, G. H. H. (George Henry Hamilton), 1894-1953 4
Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 4
Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 4
Weyer, Edward Moffat, 1904-1998 4
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 3
Allen, Jerome Lee, 1891-1955 3
Amadon, Dean 3
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Public Instruction 3
American Museum of Natural History. Library 3
American Museum of Natural History. Trustees 3
Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970 3
Archbold, Richard 3
Aronson, Lester R. (Lester Ralph), 1911-1996 3
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