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Australian Aborigine Bark Painting photographic slides, 1959-1960.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 96
Abstract
Slides of every bark painting gifted to the American Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology (approximately 90).
Dates:
1959-1960
Australian fauna ; How to build an igloo
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 40
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: Australian Fauna. Armand Denis, noted wildlife photographer and filmmaker and leader of the 1952 New Guinea Expedition for the AMNH, and his wife, Michaela, discuss the origins of the Australian continent and the subsequent evolution of wildlife there. Also shown is an Armand Denis RKO film depicting the Australian bush country, with views of wallaroos, wallabies, and some unusual reptiles. SEGMENT 2: How to Build an Igloo. The second segment presents the film How to Build an...
Dates:
1953
Bushland revels
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 8
Scope and Contents
Australian ornithologist R. T. Littlejohns spent four years in the bush filming the beautiful lyrebird, resulting in this rare footage of the bird's behavior. A female lyrebird and her chick are the initial focus of the film; the mother bird is seen gathering food for the chick; later the young bird leaves the nest. The focus then shifts to the male lyrebird and his spectacular display behavior. A complete bird song, comprised of many imitative calls, is featured on the film's soundtrack.
Dates:
1920?
Follow the sun
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 9
Scope and Contents
In an effort to promote tourism to the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian government produced this film. Atolls, Keppel and Duke Islands, beaches, and tourists sailing, waterskiing, fishing, swimming, and shelling introduce this vast reef along the coast of Queensland to the viewer. The wide variety of aquatic animals and plants shown include a cormorant rookery, newly hatched turtles scurrying to the sea, skimmers on shore, and underwater footage of puffers, rays, angelfish, sea horses, and...
Dates:
between 1920 and 1939
The golden fleece
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 11
Scope and Contents
When the Australian government made this promotional film, Australia's sheep industry was supplying 25% of the world's wool. The activities on a large sheep ranch are presented in detail: merino sheep, herded in from the grazing land, are moved in single file into large dipping vats containing a chemical solution to kill parasites, and oral medication is administered with a squirt gun. At shearing time, the sheep are taken to a shed, where shearers using electric clippers shear 120 to 150...
Dates:
between 1920 and 1939
Great Barrier Reef Expedition photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 250
Abstract
Field photographs of marine life and mammals in Australia, Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1962. Includes birds, kangaroos, koalas, and underwater photographs of invertebrates and fish.
Dates:
1962-1965
William King Gregory papers, 1889-1948 (bulk 1906-1948)
Collection
Identifier: Mss .G7441
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of administrative, scientific, academic and personal papers, and correspondence. Papers include Gregory's general correspondence with universities, colleges and scientists about his research topics and publications; correspondence with museums about purchasing replicas of fossils; and with students seeking employement. Other papers include lecture notes prepared for zoology classes emphasizing evolution, 1925-1926 and 1939; and manuscripts and notes for his...
Dates:
1889-1948; Majority of material found within 1906-1948
Native animals of Australia
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 12
Scope and Contents
Animals of the Canberra Reserve, located in the Australian Capital Territory in southeastern New South Wales, are featured in this film: kangaroos, tree kangaroos, bandicoots, pademelons, kangaroo rats, wallabies, opossums, albino opossums, flying opossums, wombats, koalas, Tasmanian devils, tiger cats, spotted native cats, echidnas and platypuses.
Dates:
1928
Reginald Denham photographic slide collection of birds and mammals in Africa and Australia
Collection
Identifier: PSC 212
Scope and Contents
Photographs of birds and mammals in Africa, Australia. Also includes one slide of African dancers.
Dates:
1968-1969
Sarah Dietz slide photographic slide collection, 1960-1990.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 591-610
Abstract
Photographs taken around the world to accompany Sarah Dietz's lectures. Rehoused in 20 boxes in its original order. 591. China. 592. South Africa, China, Burma. 593. Indonesia, Mongolia. 594. China. 595. Ethiopia, India #1. 596. India #2. 597. Fiji, New Zealand, Australia. 598. Australia. 599. Arizona, Galapagos, Russia, Tanzania, Ethiopia. 600. Italy, Solomon Islands, Great Barrier Reef. 601. Thailand, Central Asia, Japan. 602. India, Great Rivers, Vietnam. 603. Java, Iran. 604. Madagascar,...
Dates:
1960-1990
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- American Museum of Natural History 3
- Adamson, Hans Christian (1890-1968) 1
- Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
- Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
- Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- CBS/AMNH Adventure Series (1953-1956) 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
- Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 1
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
- Denham, Reginald, 1894-1983 1
- Denis, Michaela 1
- Department of Anthropology 1
- Department of Ichthyology 1
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Great Barrier Reef Expedition (1962) 1
- Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
- Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
- Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
- Littlejohns, Raymond Trewolla, 1893-1961 1
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
- Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
- National Film Board of Canada 1
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
- Photo Studio 1
- RKO Pictures 1
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 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 ∧ less
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