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Joseph Asaph Allen correspondence, 1870-1919
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A451-.A452
Dates:
Majority of material found within ( 1899-1902)
Edgar A. Mearns correspondence, 1883-1915
Collection
Identifier: Mss .M43
Scope and Contents
The collection consists entirely of photocopies of handwritten letters. The first letter, dated May 17, 1883, is from Albert S. Bickmore, founder and superintendent of the AMNH, concerning Mearns's proposed donation of a collection of birds. The second letter is from curator J.A. Allen, discussing details of the specimens. Other correspondents include James P. Chapin, Frank M. Chapman, L.P. Gratacap, C. Hart Merriam, Jenness Richardson and Anthony Woodward.
Dates:
1883-1915
Preparation Molds for Exhibits
Collection
Identifier: Mem 306
Scope and Contents
Molds for exhibits were created and used to prepare the models that compose the exhibits of the American Museum of Natural history, approximately from 1889 to the 1990s, first by the science departments and then by the Department of Exhibition and its different iterations. Models were meant to reproduce existing and extinct animal specimens, humans and cultural artifacts, insects and plant life. The types of mold that can be found in this grouping provide insight on the methods employed to...
Dates:
Usage: circa 1889-1990s
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- Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 2
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 2
- Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 2
- Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
- Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
- Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 1
- Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
- Department of Anthropology 1
- Department of Exhibition 1
- Department of Herpetology 1
- Department of Ichthyology 1
- Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 1
- Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929 1
- Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 1
- Gratacap, L. P. (Louis Pope), 1851-1917 1
- Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians 1
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
- Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 1
- Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 1
- Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916 1
- Miller, Gerrit S. (Gerrit Smith), 1869-1956 1
- National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Pearson, T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert), 1873-1943 1
- Richardson, Jenness 1
- Smith, Herbert H. (Herbert Huntington), 1851-1919 1
- Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 1
- Woodward, Anthony, d. 1915 1 ∧ less
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