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Andrew Dolkart publication proofs for book Breaking new ground : the architecture of the American Museum of Natural History
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: Mss .D64
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of several versions of the 48-page unpublished work, in 9 portfolios and folders. The work titled, Breaking new ground : the architecture of the American Museum of Natural History (assigned ISBN 0-913424-26-9). Pages include ms. corrections. Collection also includes 4 zip discs and 1 CD-ROM.Folder list: folder 1. Master, art included (48[12] leaves) -- folder 2. Master, art not included (leaves [1]-34, 47-48[12] leaves) -- folder 3. [Correspondence with book...
Dates:
2000-2001
Douglas J. Preston manuscript and correspondence, before 1986.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .P74
Abstract
Three notebook binders with correspondence, manuscripts, and related editorial remarks concerning Douglas J. Preston's book Dinosaurs in the Attic, 1986.
Dates:
1986
Early chapters from Jean Le Corbeiller's text for the pictorial history of the American Museum of Natural History.
Item
Identifier: Mss .L43
Dates:
1969
Egypt ; Fish genetics ; Geology of the far north
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 103
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: Egypt. In a remote broadcast from the Brooklyn Museum, the first segment attempts to reconstruct life in Egypt during the time of the Pharoahs, as seen through Egyptian art. John Cooney, curator of egyptology at the Brooklyn Museum, narrates. Film sequences of ruins, pyramids, the Nile, wells, and Thebes were produced by Ancient World Film Series and the Archaeological Institute of America with Ray Gardner. SEGMENT 2: Fish Genetics. The second segment is concerned with fish...
Dates:
1955
Elastic time
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 58
Scope and Contents
Richard H. Pough, chairman of the Department of Conservation and General Ecology at the AMNH, demonstrates new photographic techniques. Man has increased his knowledge through time-lapse photographic and stroboscopic (high-speed) techniques. A year in the life of a field of grain, from seed to maturity, is filmed using time-lapse photography. Charles M. Bogert, museum herpetologist, produced slow-motion films of a rattlesnake's strike. Other footage includes a drone fly, a frog leaping, the...
Dates:
1954
Lincoln Ellsworth Polar Expeditions collection
Collection
Identifier: Mem 48
Scope and Contents
The Lincoln Ellsworth Polar Expeditions Collection is comprised of papers and objects that document Ellsworth’s North Pole and Antarctic expeditions between 1925 and 1939. Select items from the collection are currently on display in the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibition, “Lincoln Ellsworth, 1880-1951" and have been featured in past ones, such as “Partners in Discovery” (1963-1964) and “From the Museum’s Attic” (1985-1951). Various reproductions were made by the museum for these...
Dates:
Usage: 1925-circa 2005
Embryology
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 57
Scope and Contents
Evelyn Shaw, of the Department of Animal Behavior at the American Museum of Natural History, introduces the program which opens with film clips of chicks, monkeys, kinkajous, and cocker spaniels and discussions of their beginnings. Charts of human growth in the womb are shown. The development of frog, trout, fish, and chicken embryos is seen through time-lapse photographs. The films were provided by United World Films.
Dates:
1954
Employee Benefits Association records, circa 1920-1979
Collection
Identifier: DR 036
Scope and content
Bank statements, checkbooks, correspondence, minutes, membership certificates, and cash ledgers (1947-1969, 1970-1975) relating to the operations of the Employee Benefits Association. Approximately 10 bound volumes.
Dates:
1920 - 1979
Essence of life
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 99
Scope and Contents
William D. Clarke, AMNH curator of invertebrates, reviews the nature and range of life on earth, illustrating how all normal forms of life have five basic properties: responsiveness, the ability to reproduce, growth, metabolism, and movement. A live performance by UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) demonstrates that despite its amazing capabilities, far superior to human clerks, its giant brain falls short of qualifying it as life. A powerful electron microscope is used to show that the...
Dates:
1955
Ethnographic portraits from Bildarchiv in Freiburg, Germany
Collection
Identifier: PPC .E41
Scope and Contents
Ethnographic prints, including people from Syria, Algeria, Brazil, Romanian, and Sheiks taken from Bildarchiv Gesellshaft in Freiburg.
Dates:
1923
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