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Mary Jobe Akeley papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A342-.A344
Dates:
1859-1940
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 25
Scope and Contents
Primarily images from the dioramas in the the AMNH Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals with some interior views of the hall. Includes some images of preparator refurbishing Cheetah Group inside the diorama, 1974. Also includes 5 duplicate slides of black and white photographs depicting Carl Akeley in the field, a group photograph and an illustration of the African Mammal Hall.
Dates:
1949,1974, undated
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell
Item
Identifier: Mss .C36
Scope and content
Typescripts recount two of Campbell's expeditions: to East Africa, Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935; and to the Dunqulah region of Sudan, Dec. 1937-1938(?); primarily to collect specimens for the AMNH. Both reports are undated, and the account for the Sudan expedition appears to be unfinished. The reports mention Campbell's associates and co-leaders: hunter and photographer Alfred J. Klein in East Africa, and hunter Major W.V.D. Dickinson in Sudan. The appendix to the report on the East African...
Dates:
1935 - 1938
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Carl and Mary in Africa
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 24
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley East African Expedition, 1926. In the opening sequence, Carl Ethan Akeley (associate in the AMNH Department of Mammalogy, and associate curator and adviser in the AMNH Department of Preparation) watches artist William R. Leigh painting habitat studies for the background of the klipspringer group, one of the dioramas now in the museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. At the campsite, located in the Lukenia Hills 40 miles east of Nairobi, Leigh...
Dates:
1926
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Martin Johnson papers, 1923-1942
Collection
Identifier: Mss .J63- .J65
Dates:
(bulk 1923-1937).
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Philip Manwaring Plant collection, 1936-1941.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .P53
Dates:
1936 - 1941
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
[Studies for the dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History's African Hall]
Collection
Identifier: Art Survey No. 275-285
Dates:
1926
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Trowbridge and Livingston photographs of construction of exterior and interior of Section 13, African Hall
Collection
Identifier: PPC .T76
Scope and Contents
Photographs of the construction of the exterior and interior of the African Hall.
Dates:
1929-1931
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
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