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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

Amahuaca

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 5
Scope and Contents In 1960-1961, anthropologists Robert Carneiro (AMNH curator) and Gertrude Dole filmed the Amahuaca Indians, who inhabit a remote area of Peru, as documentation for their field work. The film documents the daily life of the inhabitants of Chumichinia, an island in the Ucayali River, whose way of life has not been significantly changed by outside contact except for the addition of modern clothing to their traditional costume. The planting and tending of maize, pottery making, baking of corn...
Dates: 1960-1961

American Museum Journal papers, 1900-1919.

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Identifier: DR 040

American Museum of Natural History address book of annual members, 1873.

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Identifier: DR 147
Abstract

Handwritten registry book containing names and addresses of annual members of the AMNH in 1873. The front page of the book contains a copy of membership invitations from trustees, information about member benefits and costs, and list of donors. Book contains several signatures of members of Roosevelt family.

Dates: 1873

American Museum of Natural History administrative files from the director's office

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Identifier: DR 119
Abstract

Administrative files from the museum director's office including those of Thomas D. Nicholson, Director 1969-1989. Includes correspondence with William J. Moynihan and George D. Langdon.

Dates: circa 1980s.

American Museum of Natural History annual report photocopies, undated.

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Identifier: DR 099A
Abstract

Bound photocopies of AMNH annual reports dating from 1912-1987. One box of blowbacks from microfilm.

Dates: 9999 - 9999

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Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 173
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Museum publications 9
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives. 8
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Human resources 6
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Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 14
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 13
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 7
Department of Education 7
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 6
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Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
Shackelford, James B. 6
Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951 5
Hayden Planetarium 5
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 5
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 4
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 4
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 3
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 3
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 3
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 3
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 3
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 3
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 3
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 3
American Association of Museums 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Library Services 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 2
American Museum of Natural History. Trustees 2
Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition (1st : 1916-1917) 2
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 2
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 2
Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard), 1927- 2
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 2
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 2
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 2
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 2
Department of Exhibition 2
Department of Geology and Paleontology 2
Discovery Tours (Program) 2
Dodge Brothers 2
Eyerdam, Walter J. (Walter Jakob), 1892-1974 2
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 2
Gardiner, Henry, 1916- 2
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 2
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 2
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 2
Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969 2
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 2
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 2
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 2
Moynihan, William J. 2
National Geographic Society (U.S.) 2
Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 2
Newell, Norman Dennis, 1909-2005 2
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
Nicholson, Thomas D. 2
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 2
Olsen, George, d. 1939 2
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
Reekie, Gordon 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
Ryus, David D. 2
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 2
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
Stout, Gardner D. 2
University of Kansas 2
Witteborg, Lothar P., 1927- 2
Young, John McKenzie 2
Adams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher), 1873-1955 1
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 1
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 1
Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 1
Amadon, Dean 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1916) (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1928-1929) (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
American Museum of Natural History. Office of Public Affairs 1
American Philosophical Society 1
Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928 1
Anderson, Sydney, 1927- 1
Andrews Whaling Expedition to Japan and Korea of the American Museum of Natural History (1911-1912) 1
Andrews, Yvette Borup 1
Aronson, Lester R. (Lester Ralph), 1911-1996 1
Arth, Malcolm, 1939-1992 1
Atz, James W. 1
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Beck, Rollo Howard, 1870-1950 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
Blakely, Dudley Moore, 1902-1982 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
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