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Africa: Exploration and Expedition exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 613F
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition, Africa: Exploration and Expedition, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1998, Library Gallery. Includes rare books, artifacts, portraits, and maps as well as items from the Chapin Lang Congo Expedition 1909-1915. Curated by Roscoe Thompson, then Assistant Director of Library Services.

Dates: 1998

African Peoples Hall photographic slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 9
Scope and Contents

American Museum of Natural History Hall of African Peoples.

Dates: undated

Amber: Window to the Past photographic slides of exhibition

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 50-51
Scope and Contents

Slides of the temporary exhibit Amber: Window to the Past, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1996-1997. The exhibit displayed a re-creation of a 23 to 30 million-year-old Dominican amber forest. Gallery 3. PSC 50 contains images of the exhibit being constructed and installed. PSC 51 contains images from the finished exhibition.

Dates: 1996-1997

American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of a fallen kiosk, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 526C
Abstract

Photographs of a fallen kiosk, knocked over by construction, in front of the AMNH.

Dates: undated

American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of Codices

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 15
Scope and Contents

Lienzo of Coixtlahuaca, 36 slides, copy of curator's report enclosed, titled "Report on the 1899 Copy of the Lienzo of Coixtlahuaca II Curated at the American Museum of Natural History" by Arthur A. Joyce, April 1993. Chavero Codex, August 1994, 20 slides.

Dates: circa 1993-1994

American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of electric catfish, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 526D
Abstract

Studio photographs of electric catfish of African variety.

Dates: undated

American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of Movable Museum

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 587A
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the Movable Museum bus in front of the AMNH entrance on 77th Street.

Dates: 1998 March

American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of old restaurant demolition

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 611C
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken in the AMNH Courtyard of the old restaurant demolition.

Dates: 1998 July 21

American Museum of Natural History Portraits and Lab views photographic slides, 1970s-1990s

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 106
Abstract

Portraits of AMNH scientific staff from various departments and views of the labs. Portraits include Niles Eldredge, Peter Möller, Brenda M. Rivera, Diane Bynum, Sidney Horenstein, Nina Root, Jerry Rosen, Richard Tedford, Ross MacPhee, Bill Guch, Barnum Brown, Ray de Lucia, Melanie Stiassny, Radford Arrindell, George Langdon, John Van Couvering, Richard Zwiefel, Marie Lawrence, Laura Freeman, Andy DeSantis, among others.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1970s-1990s

American Museum of Natural History special events photographic slides of Kwanzaa and Black History month, 1992, 1993.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 548
Abstract

Photographs taken at the AMNH during the Kwanzaa Celebration on December 29, 1992, and Black History Month, February 1993.

Dates: 1992,1993