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100 Times Around the Sun photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 88
Scope and Contents
Slides of sky show 100 Times Around the Sun, organized by the Hayden Planetarium, 1969. Images include the AMNH 77th Street entrance.
Dates:
1969
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
The $2,000,000 J.P. Morgan gem collection ; Lampreys ; Antarctic animals
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 32
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: The $2,000,000 J. P. Morgan Gem Collection. Brian Mason, AMNH curator of physical geology and mineralogy, describes the museum's collection of gems, which consists of diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds. Mason discusses how these gems were cut and polished, using films produced by DeBeers Consolidated Mines Ltd. and E. J. Mauther. The reasons why the stones are so valuable are also examined. SEGMENT 2: Lampreys. Lampreys and their detrimental effect on the fishing industry in...
Dates:
1953
A. A. Allen photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 5
Scope and Contents
Field photographs of North American birds in nature.
Dates:
undated
A Celebration of Birds: Louis Agassiz Fuertes and His Art photographic slides, 1983.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 89C
Abstract
Slides of artwork displayed in the temporary exhibition A Celebration of Birds: Louis Agassiz Fuertes and His Art, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1983.
Dates:
1983
A day with John Burroughs
Collection
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. J. Emmerich photographic slide collection of animals in Africa
Collection
Identifier: PSC 213
Scope and Contents
Photographs of animals in nature in Africa.
Dates:
1968
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
A. Miller photographic slide collection, undated.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 355
Abstract
Photographs of animals and flowers in nature. Two photographs of a giant panda and giraffe at the New York Zoological Park (Bronx Zoo).
Dates:
undated
A Natural Collection photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 191
Scope and Contents
Nature photographs by Steven Wilson and Karen Hayden for the book "A Natural Collection." Taken on the Gulf Coast of Texas in 1979. The book was published in 1981.
Dates:
undetermined
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