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Edmund Heller diary
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H45
Scope and Contents
The diary is dated from October 9, 1917 to January 12, 1918, with undated addenda and address lists. It contains Heller’s personal reflections and daily activities on his solo return trip from the First Asiatic Zoological Expedition. He discusses the sites and architecture, the flora and weather, as well as the culture and his impressions of the people of each country. He writes of goods for sale, with a particular interest in lantern slides and fur-skinned merchandise. Many of his...
Dates:
October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918
Henry Fairfield Osborn research papers, circa 1888.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .O8352
Abstract
Bound volumes, notes and book manuscripts on amynodontidae and proboscidea, including evolution and skeletal structures.
Dates:
1888
Joseph Asaph Allen correspondence, 1870-1919
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A451-.A452
Dates:
Majority of material found within ( 1899-1902)
Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives photographic slides, circa 1990.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 32
Abstract
Images of fossils and exhibits in the AMNH Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives.
Dates:
circa 1990
Henry Fairfield Osborn papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .O835
Scope and Contents
Accompanying the collection is a three-drawer wooden cabinet containing file cards on assorted research subjects and people.
Dates:
1877 - 1935; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1935
[Patriofelis and crocodile] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Item
Identifier: RF-83-C
Scope and Contents
Painting of weasel-like prehistoric mammal baring its teeth at a crocodile swimming in a stream. Signed and dated at lower left: Chas. R. Knight, 1906.
Dates:
1906
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
Ruth Fields photographic slide collection
Collection
Identifier: PSC 214-219
Scope and Contents
Consists mostly of wildlife photography of mammals and birds and a few images of insects and reptiles. Photographs of East Africa plains, including safari animals, landscapes, birds and a couple of market scenes. Wading birds, small mammals. water lilies, other wetland flora in Florida. Some photographs of Indians in Mexico including portraits, village and market scenes. A small group of photographs taken in Alaska of icebergs, Alaskan natives and children. Box 219 is exclusively "Birds of...
Dates:
circa 1960s-1970s
Ruth Fields photographic slide collection, 1959-1986.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 169
Abstract
Mostly photographs of birds in nature. Also includes mammals and insects as well as Seminole Indians.
Dates:
1959-1986
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- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 2
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
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- Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
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- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
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- Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
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- Miller, Gerrit S. (Gerrit Smith), 1869-1956 1
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