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Frederick H. Pough photographic slide collection, 1948.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 410
Abstract

Mostly photographs taken in Switzerland of wildflowers and glaciers. Includes a few images of fossils and limestone.

Dates: 1948

Frederick H. Pough photographic slides of Paricutin volcano

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 392
Scope and Contents

Photographic slides of the volcano, Paricutin, which erupted in Mexico. Includes a script for 30 slides used in Frederick H. Pough's lecture, A Volcano is Born. The lecture slides are reprints and housed in separate sleeves.

Dates: 1943-1950

Weather and storms ; Mouth-breeding fish ; Volcanoes

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 33
Scope and Contents SEGMENT 1: Weather and Storms. Frank. H. Forrester, astronomer at the AMNH-Hayden Planetarium, and Ernest J. Christie, meteorologist for the U. S. Weather Bureau, give scientific explanations for weather, cloud formations, and storms, including lightning and thunder. They present films illustrating storm patterns through a dramatic view of the eye of the hurricane as seen from an airplane flying directly into the storm and through views from the ground. Also shown are films of lightning. The...
Dates: 1953