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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

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

Mary Jobe Akeley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A342-.A344

Mary Jobe Akeley papers, 1859-1940, reproduction

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #76
Scope and Contents

Microfilm of Mary Jobe Akeley papers (1859-1940) relating to Mary Jobe Akeley and her husband Carl E. Akeley.

Dates: Other: 1987

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

And so ... we went to Africa

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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

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

The Bernheim-Conant Expedition

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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

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

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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

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Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 41
Department of Ornithology Archives 2
 
Subject
Photographic Slide Collection 23
Africa 9
Animals -- Africa 6
Manuscript Collection 6
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Film Collection 5
Moving Images 5
Scientific expeditions -- Africa. 5
Travel photography 4
Wildlife photography 4
Birds -- Africa 3
Explorers -- United States -- Biography 3
Kenya 3
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives. 2
Explorers -- Africa, Central -- Correspondence. 2
Jungle animals -- Africa, East 2
Mammals -- Africa 2
Safaris -- Africa 2
Safaris -- Africa, East 2
Scientific expeditions -- Africa, Central 2
Scientific expeditions -- Canada, Western. 2
South Africa 2
Tanzania 2
Women explorers -- United States -- Biography 2
Adventure and adventurers -- Africa, East 1
Africa -- Antiquities 1
Africa, Central -- Description and travel 1
Africa, Central -- Discovery and exploration 1
Africa, East -- Description and travel 1
Africa, North -- Description and travel 1
Alaska 1
Amboseli National Park (Kenya) 1
Animals -- Africa, East 1
Animals -- Alaska 1
Animals -- Australia 1
Animals -- Classification 1
Anthropology -- Classification. 1
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Arizona 1
Art, African 1
Atlas Mountains -- Description and travel 1
Australia 1
Australia -- Description and travel. 1
Bali Island (Indonesia) 1
Benin 1
Berbers -- Clothing 1
Berbers -- Social life and customs 1
Birds -- North America 1
Birds -- Photography 1
Boran (African people) 1
Botanists -- Germany -- Correspondence. 1
Burma 1
Chile 1
China 1
Classification -- Books -- Anthropology. 1
Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Côte d'Ivoire 1
Dakar (Senegal) 1
Diorama 1
Egypt -- Antiquities 1
Egypt -- Description and travel 1
Elephants -- Africa 1
Ethiopia 1
Ethnologists -- Africa, Central -- Correspondence. 1
Ethnologists -- Germany -- Correspondence. 1
Ethnology -- Africa -- Classification. 1
Ethnology -- Africa, Central 1
Ethnology -- Africa, North 1
Fiji 1
Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
Fishes -- Evolution. 1
Florida 1
Flowers -- North America 1
Galapagos Islands 1
Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) 1
Greece 1
Guinea 1
Hausas (African people) 1
Hornbills -- Africa, East 1
Hunters -- Africa, Central -- Correspondence. 1
Hunters -- Gabon -- Correspondence. 1
Hunting -- Africa, East 1
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
India 1
Indians -- Classification. 1
Indigenous peoples 1
Indonesia 1
Insects -- North America 1
Iran 1
Italy 1
Japan 1
Java (Indonesia) 1
Jungle animals -- Africa, Central 1
Kikuyu (African people) 1
Kruger National Park (South Africa) 1
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Lion -- Behavior 1
Lion -- Folklore 1
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English 42
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Names
American Museum of Natural History 17
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 4
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 4
American Museum of Natural History. Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 4
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 4
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Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 3
Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 2
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 2
Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947-1948) 2
Ker, Donald I. (Donald Ian), 1905-1981 2
Klein, Alfred J. 2
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 2
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 2
Adamson, Hans Christian (1890-1968) 1
Akeley African Expedition to the Belgian Congo of the American Museum of Natural History (1921-1922) 1
American Museum of Natural History. Library 1
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 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
Beals, Jessie Tarbox 1
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
Bendig, Allen 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Bernheim, Claude 1
Bernheim, Danielle 1
Bernheim-Conant Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953-1954) 1
Brass, L. J. (Leonard J.) 1
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
CBS/AMNH Adventure Series (1953-1956) 1
Campbell, William Durant, 1907-1995 1
Cape York Expedition (1948) 1
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 1
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
Denham, Reginald, 1894-1983 1
Department of Education 1
Department of Exhibition 1
Department of Ichthyology 1
Deusing, Murl 1
Dickinson, W. V. D. (William Vicris Digby), 1889-1948 1
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 1
Dyer, Walter Gurnee 1
Emmerich, A. J. 1
Fields, Ruth 1
Foster, Robert 1
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
Goodwin, George Gilbert 1
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
Healy, Scott 1
Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
Jansson, Arthur August, 1890-1960 1
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
Kaston, B. J. (Benjamin Julian), 1906-1985 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957 1
Larson, Thomas J. (Thomas John) 1
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
Lowry, Barbara 1
Lowry, David A. 1
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
Mack, John 1
Martin Johnson African Expedition (2nd : 1924-1928) 1
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Morden, Irene 1
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
Musser, Guy G. 1
Nathan, Francis 1
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
Pallister, John 1
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
Raddatz, Richard 1
Rand, Austin Loomer, 1905-1982 1
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
Richardson, William B. 1
Rockwell, Robert H. 1
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
Skinner, H. D. (Henry Devenish), 1886-1978 1
Sound Masters (Film) 1
Spalding-Peterson Expedition (1959) 1
Sulawesi Expeditions (1973-1976) 1
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