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Adventures on the Upper Nile
Collection
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
Found in:
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An African Safari
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 3
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Central African Expedition, 1948. Starting at Cape Town and going round the southern tip of Africa up to Mombasa, Kenya, the AMNH Central African Expedition, led by AMNH director of preparation and installation James Lippitt Clark, then traveled through Nairobi, the Mountains of the Moon in the Ruwenzori Range in Uganda and Zaire, Ripon Falls (Uganda), Bagasson (Congo) and Stanleyville (now Kisangani in Zaire), all north of Lake Victoria, then to Uganda, the Belgian...
Dates:
1948
Found in:
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Diaries: [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #15-23
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1907-1948
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William J. Morden papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .M671-.M674
Scope and Contents
This collection is concerned with Morden’s expeditions to Alaska, Central Asia, and Southwest Africa and contains detailed field notes written by both William and Irene. The field notes include details of their travels, supply lists, budgets, and descriptions of artifacts and specimens gathered. There are also a number of drafts of articles and books written by both Morden and Irene about their experiences abroad.
The William J. Morden papers also include correspondences which are...
Dates:
1922-1957
Found in:
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Report of the Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1947-1948 : [microform]
Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #24
Dates:
1948
Found in:
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- O'Donnell-Clark African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1931) 2
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
- Blakely, Dudley Moore, 1902-1982 1
- Deusing, Murl 1
- Fleischmann-Clark, American Museum, Indo-China Expedition (1936) 1
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- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
- Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926) 1
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