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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
Photographs of African people and culture
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A381
Scope and Content Note
The majority of this collection consists of photographs and photographic postcards of African people, locations and objects. Many of the photographs are portraits and various cultures are represented. Most of the images are captioned and several items are accompanied by brief notes.The earliest dated item is among a group of photographs collected by Franz Uri Boas for research (Folder 1). These include various objects of ritual and daily use, pygmies at the 1904 St. Louis...
Dates:
circa 1904-1950
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- American Museum of Natural History 1
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
- Beals, Jessie Tarbox 1
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 1
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
- Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
- Dodge Brothers 1
- Foster, Robert 1
- Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
- Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
- Heinz 1
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
- Klein, Alfred J. 1
- Lee, Hugh J. 1
- McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
- Nyholm, N. Erik I. 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955 1
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
- Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 1
- Sanford Memorial Hall of the Biology of Birds 1
- Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 1
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 1
- Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
- Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 1
- Wilkins, George H., Sir (George Hubert), 1888-1958 1
- Young, John McKenzie 1 ∧ less
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