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Stereographs of African landscapes, people and culture

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .A382
Scope and Content note This is an unidentified collection of stereographs, the majority of them undated, of African landscape, villages, towns and people. The countries represented are Kenya, Egypt, Tanzania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda. Among the African peoples mentioned are the Buganda, Wanderobo, Kikuya, Taita, Masai, Lumbwa and Nandi.Most of the cards are labeled on the verso in the same hand. They are unsigned but identified by the initials V.S.K. A number of the cards describe interactions...
Dates: 1905-1911

Stung / Base "Carl E. Akeley"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 870
Scope and Contents

Elephant with snake around right fore-leg. Black base. Inscription: On base "Stung."

Dates: undated

The Old Man of Mikeno / On base mid "Carl Akeley sc."

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 600
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders of gorilla. Inscription: On base "The Old Man of Mikeno/Carl Akeley sc./(c) 1923" Rear of base "Kunst Foundry. N.Y."

Dates: 1923

Vernon Shaw Kennedy collection of stereographs, photographs, and papers

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .K4
Scope and Contents

Collection consists mostly of stereographs taken on an expedition to British East Africa, 1905-1907. One stereograph is of Carl Akeley. Also includes 3 photographs of animals possibly taken at London Zoo. Other materials include two field notebooks, typescript and handwritten documents on the Aurora Borealis, clipping regarding the death of Captain Johansen and a book review to AMNH, Specal Collections.

Dates: 1900-1930; Majority of material found within 1905-1907

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  • Repository: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library X
  • Names: Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 X

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Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 5
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 4
American Museum of Natural History 4
Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 2
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
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Akeley African Expedition to the Belgian Congo of the American Museum of Natural History (1921-1922) 1
Akeley, Delia J. (Delia Julia), 1875?-1970 (1875 December 5-1970 May 22) 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
Bodry-Sanders, Penelope, 1944- 1
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
Department of Education 1
Department of Exhibition 1
Department of Ichthyology 1
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
Hayden Planetarium 1
Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
Jansson, Arthur August, 1890-1960 1
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Leigh, William Robinson, 1866-1955 1
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
Martin Johnson African Expedition (2nd : 1924-1928) 1
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
New York State Roosevelt Memorial 1
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
Olsen, Chris E., 1880-1965 1
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
Photo Studio 1
Raddatz, Richard 1
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
Rockwell, Robert H. 1
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 1
Wilson, James Perry, 1889-1976 1
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