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10-stotin coins

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MEM 53
Scope and Contents Nine identical coins mounted on a slip of paper. The coins were issued on April 29, 1993, by Banka Slovenije. The centre of the obverse of the coin depicts a proteus, with the Latin name "Proteus anguinus" written below it, and the nominal value, expressed in numbers, above it. The reverse bears an embossed square surface with the number "10" impressed into it, the legend "Republika Slovenija" running to the left, and the denomination in words ("deset stotinov") and the year of...
Dates: April 29, 1993

35mm Photographic Slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 1-679
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a library of 35mm slides covering a wide range of topics, along with some supporting materials. The collection includes field work photographs from expeditions, collection and specimen imagery, AMNH photo studio images of buildings, events, and exhibit photographs, and more. Some slides duplicate negative and print collections.

Dates: 1935 - 2003

1940 Arizona expedition

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 250
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Arizona Expedition, 1940. Richard Archbold, AMNH research associate in mammalogy, organized this six-month-long expedition to collect all the elements for an Arizona group for the museum's Hall of North American Mammals. Animal behavior experiments were also conducted. Archbold was accompanied by A. L. Rand, AMNH research associate in ornithology, and photographer J. Lichtenfels. Expedition staff members are introduced in the film's opening sequence. Scenes of the...
Dates: 1940

A day with John Burroughs

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 171
Scope and Contents John Burroughs (1837-1921), author and naturalist, is filmed going about his daily routine at his home, Woodchuck Lodge, in the Catskill Mountains. This film is unique for the time as it was filmed in color; it is the earliest color film in the collection. It was made using a process called "prizma" color, in which both sides of the positive film were coated with emulsion; one side was dyed blue and green, the other side red and yellow. When projected together the image is in natural color...
Dates: 1919

A little journey through Iran

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 183
Scope and Contents A Little Journey through Iran is a record of the Dyers' travels through that country. Included in the film are magnificent shots of the Tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae, and the tombs of the other Achaemeni kings, Darius I, Darius II and Xerxes, and the nearby ruins of Persepolis. The Dyers also visited and filmed Esfahan, Shiraz, and the port city of Bandar Abbas, where the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf meet. Footage of Persian women in brightly colored clothes and veils, an oasis...
Dates: 1971

Abyssinia

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 163
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Field Museum-Chicago Daily News Abyssinian Expedition, 1926-1927. The film was made by Charles Suydam Cutting, with the assistance of scientist Alfred M. Bailey. The expedition party also included Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the noted ornithologist and artist, who was killed shortly after this expedition in a tragic automobiletrain collision. The film opens with Arussi Galla women washing themselves and their clothes in the river Awash. Scientists are seen in camp and, as James...
Dates: 1926-1927

Adventures on the Upper Nile

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 2
Scope and Contents Charles Oliver O'Donnell (AMNH fellow) and James Lippitt Clark (AMNH vice-director of preparation and exhibition) traveled by steamer, in 1931, up the Nile from Khartoum to Shambe in the Sudan to collect giant eland for the AMNH Hall of African Mammals. Most of the footage was taken from the steamer, and consists of panoramic views of life along the Nile, and of the activities of the expedition staff and the shikaris (native hunters) on board ship. Expedition staff appearing in the film are:...
Dates: 1931

Afghan Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History field photographs, 1950-1951

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .A38
Scope and Contents

Field photographs from the Afghan Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History.

Dates: 1950-1951

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