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Deafness
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 136
Scope and Contents
Charles Collingwood explores the world of deafness in this program. In conjunction with a trained audiologist from the New York Lexington School for the Deaf, an electrical set-up enables Collingwood's voice to be filtered out and demonstrates the tones that are lost when deafness begins. The "sounds of deafness" are carefully simulated in this program, which enables the viewers to understand the difficulties that occur when one cannot hear or speak well. Thursday's Children, an Academy...
Dates:
1956
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
Department of Invertebrate Zoology correspondence and administrative records, 1917-1989.
Collection
Identifier: DR 138
Dates:
1917 - 1989
Department of Invertebrate Zoology papers, 1902-1905.
Collection
Identifier: DR 075
Dates:
1902 - 1905
Department of Mineralogy papers
Collection
Identifier: DR 083
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and administrative materials of the Department of Mineralogy. Includes draft of Conchological Society of America.
Dates:
1898-1910
Department of Parks of the City of New York publications and proposal to contractor for expansion of American Museum of Natural History, 1871-1921
Collection
Identifier: DR 145
Scope and Contents
Contains bound copy of first annual report of the Board of Commissioners of the City of New York's Dept. of Public Parks, proposal from architects Cady, Berg and See to contractors for building the new south wing and lecture hall of the American Museum of Natural History, and two copies of the Dept. of Parks Ordinance, Rules and Regulations pamphlets.
Dates:
1871 - 1921
Department of Preparation and Installation exhibition accession records
Collection
Identifier: DR 135
Abstract
Contains accession records, inventory lists, correspondence related to accession of art works and expedition memorabilia for AMNH exhibitions, such as Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, Admiral Byrd collection (including list of Antarctic Expedition equipment and correspondence between Byrd and curator), John Burroughs exhibit, Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar expedition. Also contains accession records book, correspondence, and master sheet from defunct Department of Geography.
Dates:
1927-1962
Djuka
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 39
Scope and Contents
Located in the bush country of Dutch Guiana (now Surinam), the Djuka civilization and its history are examined in this broadcast. Originally African slaves, the Djuka people defeated their Dutch masters in an open rebellion in the early part of the eighteenth century. Charles Collingwood, the host of the program, discusses the art and history of the Djuka civilization with Morton Kahn, professor of public health at Cornell University's Medical School, and leader of the AMNH's expedition into...
Dates:
1953
Documents and photographs relating to space missions and astrological events
Collection
Identifier: DR-H 32
Abstract
Files and photographs relating to astronomical events such as the Apollo missions. Slides of the planetarium also included, as well as several cardboard backed photos.
Dates:
circa 1948-2000
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- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 2
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- Denis, Michaela 2
- Department of Exhibition 2
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- Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969 2
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- Newell, Norman Dennis, 1909-2005 2
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
- Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 2
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 2
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- Reekie, Gordon 2
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- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
- Stout, Gardner D. 2
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- 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
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- American Museum of Natural History. Office of Public Affairs 1
- American Philosophical Society 1
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- Anderson, Sydney, 1927- 1
- Andrews Whaling Expedition to Japan and Korea of the American Museum of Natural History (1911-1912) 1
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