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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

Clark Wissler papers, 1942-1943.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .W57
Abstract

Survey of the American Museum of Natural History, typescript carbon, incomplete. Also include original notes and typed drafts.

Dates: 1942 - 1943

Craig Morris exhibition records, 1995-2004

 Collection
Identifier: DR 167
Abstract

Consists of administrative files, exhibitions executed, exhibitions proposed and exhibition-related files. All the papers in this collection, including those in the administrative files, are connected to AMNH exhibitions - whether executed, under consideration or proposed to Morris when he was Associate Dean of Science for Exhibition.

Dates: Majority of material found within ( 1999-2002).

Curator (magazine) papers,

 Collection
Identifier: DR 020

David D. Ryus papers, 1972-1983.

 Collection
Identifier: DR 126

Department of Comparative Anatomy records

 Collection
Identifier: DR 152
Scope and Contents

Records from the Department of Comparative Anatomy including budgets and annual reports, personnel files, Arthur James lecture programs, correspondence and documents belonging to assistant curator George Miles Conrad, and curator William K. Gregory, history of the Department, departmental documents and reports of the projects with the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

Dates: 1900-1947

Department of Education Natural Science Center program photographs and press clippings, 1954-1974.

 Collection
Identifier: DR 149
Scope and Contents

Photographic and press materials related to Department of Education's Natural Science Center program. Includes scrapbooks of press clippings, albums of black and white photographs of educational exhibits and lab workshops, mounted photographs, some negatives and Kodachrome slides.

Dates: 1954 - 1974

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Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 14
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 13
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 7
Department of Education 7
Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
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Shackelford, James B. 6
Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951 5
Hayden Planetarium 5
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 5
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 4
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 4
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 3
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 3
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 3
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 3
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 3
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 3
American Association of Museums 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Library Services 2
American Museum of Natural History. Trustees 2
Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition (1st : 1916-1917) 2
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 2
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 2
Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard), 1927- 2
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 2
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 2
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 2
Department of Exhibition 2
Department of Geology and Paleontology 2
Discovery Tours (Program) 2
Dodge Brothers 2
Gardiner, Henry, 1916- 2
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 2
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 2
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 2
Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969 2
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 2
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 2
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 2
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 2
Moynihan, William J. 2
National Geographic Society (U.S.) 2
Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 2
Newell, Norman Dennis, 1909-2005 2
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
Nicholson, Thomas D. 2
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 2
Olsen, George, d. 1939 2
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
Reekie, Gordon 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
Ryus, David D. 2
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 2
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
Stout, Gardner D. 2
University of Kansas 2
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 2
Witteborg, Lothar P., 1927- 2
Young, John McKenzie 2
Adams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher), 1873-1955 1
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 1
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 1
Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 1
Amadon, Dean 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1916) (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1928-1929) (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
American Museum of Natural History. Office of Public Affairs 1
American Philosophical Society 1
Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928 1
Anderson, Sydney, 1927- 1
Andrews Whaling Expedition to Japan and Korea of the American Museum of Natural History (1911-1912) 1
Andrews, Yvette Borup 1
Aronson, Lester R. (Lester Ralph), 1911-1996 1
Arth, Malcolm, 1939-1992 1
Atz, James W. 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
Blakely, Dudley Moore, 1902-1982 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
Boekelman, Henry J. 1
Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971 1
Boyd, Donald Wilkin 1
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
Brooklyn Museum 1
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