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Central Asiatic Expeditions : maps, staff and transportation
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 148
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film opens with animated maps tracing the routes of the expeditions. Members of the expedition staff are introduced as they work in the field: Roy Chapman Andrews, leader; Walter Granger, chief paleontologist; Albert Thomson, assistant paleontologist; Leslie Erskine Spock, geologist; Alonzo W. Pond, archaeologist; and Captain W. P. T. Hill, topographer. The next segment shows the problems the expedition...
Dates:
1922-1928
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
The Central Asiatic Expeditions : Peking
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 150
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. Film brought from the U.S. was intended for recording the expedition, but some precious film was used to photograph Peking (now Beijing), the site of the expedition's headquarters. Because of the need to conserve film, this film is choppy, but provides a record of the city in the 1920s. The varied modes of transport are shown: trolleys, ox carts, sedan chairs, rickshaws, camels, wheelbarrows, horsedrawn...
Dates:
1922-1928
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Central Asiatic Expeditions records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents
This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates:
1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Cerro de la Neblina Expedition photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 1
Scope and Contents
Field photographs from the 1984-1985 Cerro de la Neblina expedition. Includes one slide from Amazonas, Rio Mavaca Base Camp, March 1989.
Dates:
1984-1989
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
[Collection of sketches from Mongolian Expedition]
Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 693
Dates:
1922 - 1925
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Crocker Land Expedition field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .C76
Scope and Content Note
This collection is a small subset of copies of prints from the larger Photographic Collection no. 14 – Crocker Land Expedition field photographs. The photographs in this collection are individually sleeved and arranged in four series. Folder 1 consists of 4 photographs that were taken prior to departure for the Arctic and include images of the S.S. “Diana” in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and group portraits of the expedition team.Folder 2 is divided into two sets. The...
Dates:
circa 1913-1917
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Department of Animal Behavior papers
Collection
Identifier: DR 064
Scope and content
Unprocessed material including financial records, annual reports, exhibition information and exhibition plans, science policy, scientific council, NIH, Natural History Magazine.
Dates:
undetermined
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Department of Entomology notebooks, circa 1920-1986
Collection
Identifier: DR 068
Scope and content
Field notes, drawings, photographs, negatives, publications, maps from excursions. Photographs are attached to paper in binders. Notebooks and correspondence from the Department of Entomology. Several containers labeled "Crosby and Bishop".
Dates:
1920 - 1986
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Department of Entomology papers, circa 1896-1970
Collection
Identifier: DR 067
Scope and content
Field notes from Frank E. Watson, the first steward of Lepidoptera at American Museum of Natural History. Field notes begin in 1896 and end in 1947, the time of Watson's death. Concerned chiefly with butterflies collecting in the West Indies and northeastern United States. Also included are field notes from Fred Rindge, insect collecting expedition (primarily in the United States) from 1955-1970. Papers, records, notebooks, metal index card container and research of the Department of...
Dates:
1896 - 1970
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Department of Geology and Mineralogy Ornamental Stones Collection correspondence
Collection
Identifier: DR 081
Scope and content
Letters that describe an attempt to create a collection of building and ornamental stones.
Dates:
1880 - 1887
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
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- Scientific expeditions -- Africa. 5
- Voyages and travels 4
- Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 3
- Explorers -- United States -- Biography 3
- Invertebrates 3
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- Photographic Print Collection 3
- Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions 3
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- Chiapas (Mexico) -- Antiquities 2
- Chontal Indians -- Social life and customs. 2
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- American Museum of Natural History 30
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 13
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 12
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 6
- Shackelford, James B. 6
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 5
- Photo Studio 5
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 4
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 4
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 4
- Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 3
- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 3
- Asiatic Expedition (2nd : 1918-1919) 3
- Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947-1948) 3
- Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 3
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 3
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 3
- Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 3
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 3
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 3
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 3
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 3
- Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 3
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 3
- Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 3
- Allen, Jerome Lee, 1891-1955 2
- American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 2
- American Museum of Natural History. Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 2
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 2
- Andrews, Yvette Borup 2
- Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition (1st : 1916-1917) 2
- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 2
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 2
- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 2
- Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 2
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 2
- Day Roraima Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1927-1928) 2
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 2
- Department of Entomology 2
- Department of Geology and Mineralogy 2
- Dodge Brothers 2
- Ekblaw, W. Elmer (Walter Elmer), 1882-1949 2
- Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 2
- Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 2
- Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969 2
- Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 2
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
- Legendre Indochina Expedition (1931-1932) 2
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
- MacDougall, Thomas 2
- MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 2
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
- Morden, Irene 2
- National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States 2
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 2
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 2
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
- Sage West China Expedition (1934) 2
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
- Tanquary, Maurice Cole, 1881-1944 2
- Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 2
- Young, John McKenzie 2
- Adamson, Hans Christian (1890-1968) 1
- Akeley African Expedition to the Belgian Congo of the American Museum of Natural History (1921-1922) 1
- Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 1
- Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 1
- Alston, Charles Henry, 1907-1977 1
- American Association of Museums 1
- American Legion (Steamship) 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
- Archbold Expedition to Arizona (1940) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1st : 1933-1934) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (2nd : 1936-1937) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (3rd : 1938-1939) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (5th : 1956-1957) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (6th : 1959) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (7th : 1964) 1
- Archbold Expeditions 1
- Archbold, Richard 1
- Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
- Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
- Barrowclough, George F. 1
- Baynes, Ernest Harold, 1868-1925 1
- Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
- Berlepsch, Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von, 1850-1915 1
- Bernheim, Claude 1
- Bernheim, Danielle 1
- Bernheim-Conant Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953-1954) 1
- Bishop, Sherman C. (Sherman Chauncey), 1887-1951 1
- Brass, L. J. (Leonard J.) 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1 ∧ less
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