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Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A54
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944. It also contains one folder of family and biographical documents and newspaper clippings received from Charles Gallenkamp, Andrews' biographer, in 1990. The majority of the administrative papers' correspondence concerns requests for speaking engagements about Andrews' explorations, requests for articles, and letters from the public and from companies...
Dates:
1920-1947; Majority of material found within 1934-1944
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
Field and Expedition Equipment
Collection
Identifier: Mem 305
Scope and Contents
Since 1887, the American Museum of Natural History has been conducting field expeditions in every continent. This is one of the main resources for the Museum’s scientific research and collection development activities throughout all its disciplines. This grouping holds the equipment that were used during expeditions from around 1877 to 1996. Most of these expeditions required direct interaction with the natural habitat of the subject of study, which usually involves being out in the...
Dates:
Usage: circa 1877-1990s
Edmund Otis Hovey records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H683
Scope and Content Note
The Edmund Otis Hovey Records collection consists of approximately 50 field notebooks and journals from his and Mrs. Ettie Hovey’s travels around the Caribbean, North America, Europe and the Arctic; as well as, manuscripts of his papers and lectures notes. The collection also includes photographs, postcards, ephemera and newspaper clippings regarding the Crocker Land Expedition that took place from 1913-1917. The collection spans a period of approximately 20 years, beginning in 1890 and...
Dates:
1890-1919
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- Allen, Jerome Lee, 1891-1955 2
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 2
- Ekblaw, W. Elmer (Walter Elmer), 1882-1949 2
- Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 2
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 2
- Tanquary, Maurice Cole, 1881-1944 2
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- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
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- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
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- Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
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- Hunt, Harrison J., 1878-1967 1
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
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- MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 1
- McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
- McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
- Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
- Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947) 1
- Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953) 1
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
- Nyholm, N. Erik I. 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Patagonian Expedition (1899-1900) 1
- Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955 1
- Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 1
- Sanford Memorial Hall of the Biology of Birds 1
- Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 1
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- Small, Jonathan ('Jot') 1
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 1
- Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
- Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 1
- Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 1
- Wilkins, George H., Sir (George Hubert), 1888-1958 1
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