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American Museum Congo Expedition correspondence, 1917-1920.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C661
Dates:
1917 - 1920
American Museum of Natural History annual report summaries from Henry Edward Crampton and Roy Waldo Miner, 1908-1932.
Collection
Identifier: DR 156
Abstract
Summaries written by Henry Edward Crampton and Roy Waldo Miner for AMNH annual reports. Topics include new installations to AMNH exhibit halls, including the Darwin Hall, expedition summaries, research and publications, specimen collections and accessions. Also includes a five-page timeline of expeditions and field work from 1909-1932.
Dates:
1908 - 1932
American Museum of Natural History duplicate slides of field photographs, undated.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 438
Abstract
Duplicate film slides taken from hand-colored lantern slides, field photographs from an expedition. Includes image of expedition route in the areas of Cambodia, Siam, Laos, Annam, Cochinchina and Tonkin.
Dates:
undated
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
The Central Asiatic Expeditions : fauna
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 146
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The expedition collected zoological specimens throughout Mongolia, but the main collecting was done in the Gobi Desert. This film shows some of the animals that were collected for scientific purposes, as well as those kept as pets. The animals collected includes swans, nightjars, ruddy shelducks, grebes, ducks, gazelles, wild asses, and jerboas. Next are seen the animals "kept" by members of the expedition: an...
Dates:
[1921-1930]
Central Asiatic Expeditions : fossils and artifacts
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 147
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film records the paleontological finds of the expedition. The most important is shown first: the discovery of the "perfect dozen" nest of dinosaur eggs by George Olsen, paleontologist, at the Flaming Cliffs of Shabarakh Usu in the Gobi Desert. Bones of Baluchitherium, one of the largest land mammals, a hornless relative of today's rhinoceros, and Embolitherium, an Oligocene mammal, are also seen being...
Dates:
1925
Central Asiatic Expeditions : maps, staff and transportation
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 148
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film opens with animated maps tracing the routes of the expeditions. Members of the expedition staff are introduced as they work in the field: Roy Chapman Andrews, leader; Walter Granger, chief paleontologist; Albert Thomson, assistant paleontologist; Leslie Erskine Spock, geologist; Alonzo W. Pond, archaeologist; and Captain W. P. T. Hill, topographer. The next segment shows the problems the expedition...
Dates:
1922-1928
The Central Asiatic Expeditions : Peking
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 150
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. Film brought from the U.S. was intended for recording the expedition, but some precious film was used to photograph Peking (now Beijing), the site of the expedition's headquarters. Because of the need to conserve film, this film is choppy, but provides a record of the city in the 1920s. The varied modes of transport are shown: trolleys, ox carts, sedan chairs, rickshaws, camels, wheelbarrows, horsedrawn...
Dates:
1922-1928
Central Asiatic Expeditions records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents
This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates:
1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933
Cerro de la Neblina Expedition photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 1
Scope and Contents
Field photographs from the 1984-1985 Cerro de la Neblina expedition. Includes one slide from Amazonas, Rio Mavaca Base Camp, March 1989.
Dates:
1984-1989
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- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 3
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 3
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 3
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 3
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 3
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 3
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 3
- Photo Studio 3
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- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
- Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947-1948) 2
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- Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 2
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
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- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 2
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 2
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 2
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 2
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
- Young, John McKenzie 2
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- Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
- American Association of Museums 1
- American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
- Andrews, Yvette Borup 1
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- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1st : 1933-1934) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (2nd : 1936-1937) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (3rd : 1938-1939) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (5th : 1956-1957) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (6th : 1959) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (7th : 1964) 1
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- Archbold, Richard 1
- Asiatic Expedition (2nd : 1918-1919) 1
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- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
- Baynes, Ernest Harold, 1868-1925 1
- Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Brass, L. J. (Leonard J.) 1
- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Cape York Expedition (1948) 1
- Cerro de la Neblina Expedition (1984-1985) 1
- Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 1
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
- Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 1
- Cole, Charles J. 1
- Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
- Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
- Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
- Department of Ichthyology 1
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- Fleischmann-Clark, American Museum, Indo-China Expedition (1936) 1
- Ford, Linda S. 1
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
- Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
- Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
- Grimaldi, David A. 1
- Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
- Heinz 1
- Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
- Johnson, J. M. (Mr.) 1
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
- Lee, Hugh J. 1
- Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
- Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
- MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 1
- McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
- Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955 1
- Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
- Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926) 1
- Musser, Guy G. 1
- Myers, Charles W. 1
- National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States 1
- Nyholm, N. Erik I. 1
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