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Department of Invertebrate Zoology Staff Posters, 2007-2020

 Collection
Identifier: MA.2021.011
Scope and Contents

Collection is composed of 13 composite staff posters which were assembled by Stephen Thurston using Adobe Illustrator. Physical copies of the posters are hung in the Department Hall. They span the years 2007 to 2020. Individual photos of staff members were requested for inclusion and in some cases taken by Thurston or an AMNH Staff Photographer, with credit noted as applicable.

Dates: 2007 - 2020

Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon portraits, circa 1780s

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .B84
Scope and Contents

Nine assorted portraits of Buffon some copperplate engraving prints (one color, rest black and white), and one letter of correspondence (1787).

Dates: 1780 - 1789

Original portraits of Indian chiefs [art original] / by Samuel Seymour, official artist of Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1920

 Collection
Identifier: 61-D
Scope and Contents

Portraits of six members of the 1821-1822 Native American delegation to Washington, DC. Probably copies of paintings by Charles Bird King lost in the 1865 Smithsonian fire. "These paintings are by neither Seymour nor King." Cf. note by William Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institution, May 1970. Caption and date handwritten on verso of each painting.

Dates: 1822