Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 101 - 110 of 2518

Allen Seltzer photographic slide collection, 1971, 1980-1984.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 434
Abstract

Various photographs including New York street scenes and monuments, solar eclipse (November 23, 1984; February 16, 1980; January 23, 1984; June 6, 1982), Stonehenge, launch of spaceship Discovery (August 1984), Navajo Indians in Arizona, geologic sites in Four Corners region, and Carlsbad Caverns.

Dates: 1971, 1980-1984

Along mountain trails : typescript [1949] / by S. Harmsted Chubb

 Item
Identifier: Mss .C475
Scope and Contents folder 1. Title page. Dedication. Table of contents. Introduction. Correction notes -- folder 2. Illustrations list. Placement of photos -- folder 3. Illustrations : captions -- folder 4. [chapter] 1. Mobility of solid rock -- folder 5. [chapter] 2. From ice and snow to spring awakening -- folder 6. [chapter] 2. From ice and snow to spring flowers -- folder 7. [chapter] 3. Field companions -- folder 8. [chapter] 4. Forest fire observatory -- folder 9. [chapter] 5. Sunrise from High Peak --...
Dates: 1949

Alonzo Pond Deserts of the World photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 405-406
Scope and Contents

Travel photography taken mostly of deserts. Includes aerial and land views of deserts, as well as landscapes, architecture, and street scenes from cities. Places include Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, Baghdad, Greece, Peru, Chile, Niger, and Bolivia.


Hard copy of slide list available with the collection.

Dates: circa 1950s

Alonzo William Pond collection, 1924-1972.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .P66

Alousie Boker photographic slide collection of African animals and birds, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 170
Abstract

Photographs of East Africa including game parks in Kenya and Tanzania. Amboseli, Murchison River, Ngorongoro. Birds and safari animals, hippopotamus, lion, elephant, eland, warthog, gerenuk and flamingo among others. Some slides taken in Nairobi.

Dates: undated

Dean Amadon photographic slides of birds

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 7
Scope and Contents

Slide of fence post with holes made by Acorn or California woodpecker for storage.

Dates: 1957

Amahuaca

 Collection
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

Amanda Mayer Stinchecum Japanese ikat production research collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S75
Content Description

The collection consists of 5 notebooks with notes taken by Stinchecum while doing research in Japan, color slides, black and white photographs and negatives, contact sheets, and a VHS tape. There is also a stack of index cards containing bibliographic information and photocopies of Japanese publications dealing with ikat textiles.

Dates: 1649-1987; Majority of material found in 1978-1987

Amazon head-hunters ; Theory of flight

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 68
Scope and Contents SEGMENT 1: Amazon Head-Hunters. Harry Tschopik, ethnologist at the AMNH, discusses the custom of head-hunting as a means of vengeance practiced by the Jivaro Indians in the Montana region of Peru and Ecuador (near the headwaters of the Amazon River). Tschopik attributes the rapid decimation of the Jivaro to that custom. In the studio, Tschopik observes shrunken heads and narrates a film depicting a Jivaro raid of reprisal against their enemy. A man is killed and his head is taken, shrunk and...
Dates: 1954

Amazon Portrait: Indios e Caboclos exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 102G
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition Amazon Portrait: Indios e Caboclos, held at the American Museum of Natural History. The exhibition displayed 50 photographs capturing the centuries-old lifestyle of the Amazon's TapirapeĢ Indians, highlighting the work of Charles Wagley.

Dates: circa 1993

Filtered By

  • Repository: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library X
  • Language: English X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Art Survey 911
Photographic Slide Collection 526
Photographic Print Collection 345
Film Collection 272
Moving Images 271
∨ more
Birds 268
Department Records 237
Vertebrates, Fossil 153
Manuscript Collection 134
Museum exhibits -- Photographs 120
Portraits 110
Anthropology 92
Mammals 90
Travel photography 66
Fishes 53
Pheasants -- Pictorial works 49
Archives Microfilm 45
Administrative 37
Scientific expeditions 31
Mammals -- Art. 20
Museum finance 20
Nature photography 16
Mixed 15
Mexico 13
Entomologists -- United States -- Correspondence 12
Insects 12
Public relations 12
Museum exhibits 11
Museum publications 11
Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 11
Birds -- Art 10
Flowers 10
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History 9
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 9
Africa 8
Animals 8
Annual reports 8
Development 8
Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 8
Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 8
Scientific 8
Born-digital 7
Dinosaurs -- Exhibitions 7
Education 7
Education -- Museums 7
Indians of North America 7
Invertebrates 7
Marine invertebrates 7
Museum construction 7
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York 7
North America 7
Publications 7
Zoo animals 7
Animals -- Africa 6
Dinosaurs -- Art 6
Human resources 6
Natural history museums -- Educational aspects 6
Ornithologists -- United States -- Correspondence 6
Ornithology -- United States 6
Snakes 6
Wildlife photography 6
Bimini Islands (Bahamas) 5
Birds -- Pictorial works 5
Construction 5
Egypt 5
Fishes -- Art 5
Geologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 5
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 5
Kwakiutl art 5
Library 5
Museum visitors 5
National parks and reserves -- North America 5
Natural history museum curators 5
Scientific expeditions -- Africa 5
Sculptures 5
Stegosaurus -- Art. 5
Zoologists -- United States -- Correspondence 5
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 4
Astronomy 4
Birds -- Exhibitions 4
ChichƩn ItzƔ Site (Mexico) 4
Correspondence 4
Ecology 4
Ethiopia 4
Fishes -- Research 4
Glaciers 4
India 4
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New 4
Iran 4
Kenya 4
Mammals -- Collection and preservation 4
Mammals -- Exhibitions 4
Meteorites 4
Mongolia -- Discovery and exploration. 4
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 4
Museums -- Educational aspects 4
National parks and reserves -- United States 4
New York (N.Y.) 4
Peru 4
Reptiles 4
∧ less
 
Language
French 1
Japanese 1
 
Names
American Museum of Natural History 655
Photo Studio 207
Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 119
Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899 114
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 77
∨ more
Hayden Planetarium 53
Finnin, Denis 51
Beckett, J. (Jackie) 43
Catlin, George, 1796-1872 31
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 31
Audubon, John Woodhouse, 1812-1862 29
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927 28
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 26
Department of Education 25
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 24
Chesek, Craig 24
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 24
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 23
Division of Invertebrate Zoology 23
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 21
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 20
Jansson, Arthur August, 1890-1960 20
CBS/AMNH Adventure Series (1953-1956) 17
Department of Anthropology 17
Hope, John William, 1889-1982 17
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 16
Buba, Joy Flinsch, 1904-1998 15
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 15
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 15
Mochi, Ugo, 1889-1977 15
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 14
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 14
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 13
Germann, John C. 13
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 12
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 11
Department of Entomology 11
Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew, 1808-1889 11
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 11
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 10
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 10
Christman, Erwin S., 1885-1921 10
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 10
Department of Exhibition 10
Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951 10
Kane, Robert W., 1910-1982 10
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 9
Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 9
Department of Ichthyology 9
Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949 9
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 9
American Museum of Natural History. Library 8
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 8
Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912 8
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 8
Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 8
Puza, Frank 8
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 8
Rouland, Orlando 8
Shackelford, James B. 8
Singer, Arthur 8
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 7
Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946 7
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 7
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 7
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 7
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall 7
Vernay, Arthur Stannard, 1877-1960 7
American Museum of Natural History. Office of Public Affairs 6
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 6
Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
Fraser, James Earle, 1876-1953 6
Fulda, Elisabeth Rungius, 1879-1968 6
Horsfall, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce), 1869-1948 6
Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969 6
Klein, Alfred J. 6
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 6
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 6
Raymond, Percy E. (Percy Edward), 1879-1952 6
Rose Center for Earth and Space 6
Seidel, Alexander 6
Weyer, Edward Moffat, 1904-1998 6
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 5
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 5
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 5
Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 5
Bogert, Charles M. (Charles Mitchill), 1908-1992 5
Brown, Barnum 5
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 5
Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 5
Department of Animal Behavior 5
Ekholm, Gordon F. (Gordon Frederick), 1909-1987 5
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 5
Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 5
Kalmenoff, Matthew 5
Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 5
Nicholson, Thomas D. 5
Pallenberg, Josef, 1882-1946 5
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 5
Root, Nina J. 5
∧ less