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American Museum of Natural History, Expedition to China correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Mss .E973
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 16 folders of material, primarily typewritten correspondence (some carbon copies), relating to the planning, organization and progress of the Expedition to China. The majority of the letters are between Laufer and Franz Boas (a famed anthropologist who had formerly worked at AMNH and at the time was running the anthropology PhD. program at Columbia University), with Laufer supplying regular reports on his work to Boas, who disseminated and coordinated the...
Dates:
1900-1904; Majority of material found within 1901-1904
[Field books of the Third Asiatic Expedition] : [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #42
Scope and Contents
Microfilm copies of field books created during an expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews and sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History.Box 1. Geological reconnaissance in central Mongolia / Dr. Berkey. (1st-9th book, season of 1922) -- Box 2. Geological reconnaissance in central Mongolia / Dr. Charles P. Berkey (10-16th book, season of 1925) -- Box 3. Dr. Berkey's notes, devoted to summaries and topics and problems, season of 1922. T.A.E. summary book, 1923. Dr. Berkey's...
Dates:
1922-1930; Other: 1987 (digitized)
Frontiers of a forbidden land
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 151
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH First Asiatic Zoological Expedition to Yunnan and Fukien, China, 1916-1917. This is the record of the AMNH First Asiatic Zoological Expedition to eastern and southwestern China (Fukien and Yunnan provinces), the purpose of which was to collect zoological specimens and visual ethnographic records. Roy Chapman Andrews, was accompanied by his wife, Yvette Borup Andrews, who served as photographer, and Edmund Heller, collector and explorer, who served as specimen...
Dates:
1916-1917
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- American Museum of Natural History 2
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
- Andrews, Yvette Borup 1
- Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition (1st : 1916-1917) 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 1
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 1
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 1
- Jacob H. Schiff Chinese Expedition (1901-1904) 1
- Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 1
- Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
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