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A. J. Emmerich photographic slide collection of animals in Africa
Collection
Identifier: PSC 213
Scope and Contents
Photographs of animals in nature in Africa.
Dates:
1968
Found in:
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An African Safari
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 3
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Central African Expedition, 1948. Starting at Cape Town and going round the southern tip of Africa up to Mombasa, Kenya, the AMNH Central African Expedition, led by AMNH director of preparation and installation James Lippitt Clark, then traveled through Nairobi, the Mountains of the Moon in the Ruwenzori Range in Uganda and Zaire, Ripon Falls (Uganda), Bagasson (Congo) and Stanleyville (now Kisangani in Zaire), all north of Lake Victoria, then to Uganda, the Belgian...
Dates:
1948
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Mary Jobe Akeley papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A342-.A344
Dates:
1859-1940
Found in:
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Alousie Boker photographic slide collection of African animals and birds, undated.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 170
Abstract
Photographs of East Africa including game parks in Kenya and Tanzania. Amboseli, Murchison River, Ngorongoro. Birds and safari animals, hippopotamus, lion, elephant, eland, warthog, gerenuk and flamingo among others. Some slides taken in Nairobi.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
And so ... we went to Africa
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 6
Scope and Contents
David A. Lowry, a donor to the museum, and his wife Barbara went on safari in 1959 with professional hunter Sidney Downey. The film documents the Lowrys' vacation trip, starting from Nairobi, through Amboseli National Park and Garba Tula in Kenya to Tanzania's Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Unit, and Serengeti National Park. The Lowrys hired professional filmmaker Allen Bendig and editor Charles R. Senf to make a film of the safari. Excellent views of a wide variety of...
Dates:
1959
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Anthropology conspectus : [microform] / [prepared by the American Museum of Natural History Library].
Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #72
Dates:
1915
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
B. J. Kaston photographic slide collection, 1951-1962.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 510
Abstract
Photography of animals and plants, mostly in North America and a few in Botswana. Many close up images of various animals in nature including birds, insects, and reptiles as well as some photographs of elephants.
Dates:
1951-1962
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
The Bernheim-Conant Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 14
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Bernheim-Conant Expedition to northern Africa, 1953-1954. This film is a good overall record of an expedition which covered 16,000 miles in northern Africa, showing Moslem architecture and the great variations in people and terrain of the region. Given the size of the Sahara Desert (roughly the size of the continental United States) and the people inhabiting it, attention is not focused on any one group. The expedition film was made partially due to the urging of Harry...
Dates:
1953-1954
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell
Item
Identifier: Mss .C36
Scope and content
Typescripts recount two of Campbell's expeditions: to East Africa, Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935; and to the Dunqulah region of Sudan, Dec. 1937-1938(?); primarily to collect specimens for the AMNH. Both reports are undated, and the account for the Sudan expedition appears to be unfinished. The reports mention Campbell's associates and co-leaders: hunter and photographer Alfred J. Klein in East Africa, and hunter Major W.V.D. Dickinson in Sudan. The appendix to the report on the East African...
Dates:
1935 - 1938
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Byron photographic slide collection of Africa, 1959, 1960, 1970.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 144
Abstract
Travel photographs of Africa taken by Oscar Byron and Verna Byron on a "seafari". Places include South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco (Tangier). South Africa: Capetown, Pretoria, Durban, Victoria Falls. Kenya: Mt. Kilimanjaro, Lake Rudolf, Treetops. Egypt: Aden, Suez, Cairo, Giza, Luxor. Possibly used in a slide presentation.
Dates:
1959, 1960, 1970
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
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