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Follow the sun

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 9
Scope and Contents In an effort to promote tourism to the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian government produced this film. Atolls, Keppel and Duke Islands, beaches, and tourists sailing, waterskiing, fishing, swimming, and shelling introduce this vast reef along the coast of Queensland to the viewer. The wide variety of aquatic animals and plants shown include a cormorant rookery, newly hatched turtles scurrying to the sea, skimmers on shore, and underwater footage of puffers, rays, angelfish, sea horses, and...
Dates: between 1920 and 1939

James H. Turner photographic slides of marine animal specimens, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 507
Abstract

Photographs of specimens collected in Western Australia coastal waters. Includes a blowfish, starfish, and sea slugs.

Dates: undated

John R. Saunders photographic slide collection, 1957.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 426
Abstract

Photographs of animals, plants, and views from Mt. Desert Biological Station (Salisbury Cove, Maine). Animals include harbor seals, raccoons, bears, a screech owl, starfish, jellyfish, crabs, and mussels. Majority of the photographs taken in Maine, some taken in New York.

Dates: 1957

William Schwarting photographic slide collection, 1948-1950.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 432
Abstract

Photographs of various animals in nature. Includes marine invertebrates, insects, turtles, snakes, salamanders, dolphins, cows, and rabbits. Also includes some images of flowers and plants.

Dates: 1948-1950