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Materials from "Plates from Audubon Birds of America" exhibition

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn195
Scope and Contents

B/W photographs, copies of copperplate bird images, paper rolls with drawings, "Plates from Audubon birds of America" exhibition display poster.

Dates: undated

William Diller Matthew papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .M338
Dates: 1922-1926; Majority of material found within ( 1925-1926)

Walter F. Meister papers

 Collection
Identifier: DR 124
Scope and Contents The collection consists of Meister's administrative papers from 1952 through 1967, including correspondence, budget reports from the various scientific departments, contracts for research projects, and records of bequests and grants. Most of the documents are typewritten, and many are photocopies or carbon copies. Among the topics covered are research grants made by the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund and the Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund; proposals for research at the Lerner Marine...
Dates: 1952-1967

Men of science

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 212
Scope and Contents This film introduces the scientists, technicians, artists, and their work at the AMNH in 1938. It was made by AMNH photographer Charles H. Coles and is narrated by Charles Russell, curator of the Department of Education. Though mostly filmed at the museum, scenes from AMNH expeditions are included to show the relationship between the work-in-the-field and at the museum. The film opens with a view of the exterior of the museum and a general introduction. William H. Barton, of the AMNH-Hayden...
Dates: 1938

James Arthur Oliver papers

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Identifier: DR 125-125A
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of administrative papers from the years 1959-1969 when Oliver was director of the AMNH. The files were arranged arranged alphabetically by subject, most likely by Oliver's secretary, and have been kept in their original order. A typewritten Guide to the file cabinet was found in box 1. Some miscellaneous files from the last box were interfiled. Most of the material is typewritten or printed matter, but there is a handwritten signed letter from explorer Roy...
Dates: 1940-1972

Henry Fairfield Osborn papers

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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

Albert Eide Parr papers

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Identifier: Mss .P371-.P375
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains a wide variety of documents pertaining to Albert E. Parr, particularly during his tenure as Museum Director (1942-1959). Additionally, the collection also hosts a large collection of his original publications, as well as an assortment of newspaper clippings, receipts, meeting minutes, drafts of speeches, and correspondence.

Dates: 1933-1935, 1942-1980

Thomas D. Nicholson papers,

 Collection
Identifier: DR 120
Dates: 1969-1989-(bulk 1969-1980).

Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History Collection

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Identifier: Archives Orn60
Scope and Contents This collection contains bound volumes, notes, correspondence, photographs, log books and journals. The material has been arranged into three series. The collection is largely comprised of thirty-three Bound Volumes (Series I) that contain letters and journal entries written by the field researchers that participated in the Whitney South Sea Expedition. Many of these bound volumes store additional material including hand-drawn maps, specimen sketches, photographs and a few handwritten...
Dates: 1920-2007

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Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 23
Department of Ornithology Archives 8
 
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Department Records 13
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives. 8
Manuscript Collection 8
Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 6
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History 6
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Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 5
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York 5
Birds -- Catalogs and collections 3
Birds -- Exhibitions 3
Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Film Collection 2
Geologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 2
Human resources 2
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Mammals -- Evolution. 2
Moving Images 2
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 2
Natural history museums -- Employees 2
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions 2
Ontogeny. 2
Ainu 1
Animals -- Classification 1
Anthropologists -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Australia -- Description and travel. 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Caves -- United States. 1
Caves -- Virginia -- Luray 1
City Planning 1
Correspondence 1
Earthquakes. 1
East Asia -- Description and travel 1
Education -- Museums 1
Employee activities 1
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Sources. 1
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy -- History -- Sources. 1
Exhibitions 1
Field notes 1
Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
Fishes -- Evolution. 1
Fossils -- Exhibitions 1
Geology -- Exhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Gilyaks. 1
Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) -- Description and travel 1
Great Gull Island (N.Y.) 1
Indonesia -- Description and travel. 1
Invertebrates, Fossil -- Collection and preservation. 1
Invertebrates, Fossil -- Identification. 1
Mammals -- Classification -- History. 1
Mammals -- Exhibitions 1
Mammals, Fossil -- North America. 1
Mammals, Fossil. 1
Maps 1
Meteorites 1
Mines and mineral resources -- United states. 1
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography. 1
Museum curators -- United States -- History. 1
Museum exhibits 1
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Museum finance 1
Museum techniques -- Periodicals 1
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Museums -- Educational aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources. 1
Natural history -- Asia, Central. 1
Natural history -- Exhibitions 1
Natural history -- Research -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Natural history -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York. 1
Natural history museum curators 1
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- Employees 1
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources. 1
Natural history museums -- Periodicals 1
Natural history museums -- United States -- History. 1
Naturalists -- New York (State) -- New York 1
New Zealand -- Description and travel. 1
Oceania -- Description and travel 1
Oceanographers -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Paleontology -- Methodology. 1
Paleontology -- Research -- History -- Sources. 1
Paleontology -- Research -- History. 1
Pelée, Mount (Martinique) -- Eruption, 1902. 1
Primates -- Evolution. 1
Rocks -- Collection and preservation. 1
Rocks -- Identification. 1
Saint-Pierre (Martinique) 1
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Earthquake, 1906. 1
Saurischia. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Africa 1
Scientific expeditions -- Australia 1
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 1
Scientific expeditions -- Mongolia 1
Scientific expeditions -- Oceania 1
Soufrière (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) -- Eruption, 1902. 1
Teeth, Fossil. 1
Transvaal (South Africa) -- Description and travel. 1
Vertebrates, Fossil 1
Volcanoes 1
Willamette meteorite. 1
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Language
English 30
 
Names
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 5
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 3
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 3
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 2
Department of Geology and Paleontology 2
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Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 2
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
Aronson, Lester R. (Lester Ralph), 1911-1996 1
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Beck, Rollo Howard, 1870-1950 1
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 1
Brooklyn Museum 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Bryan, E. H. (Edwin Horace), 1898-1985 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 1
Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 1
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 1
Coles, Charles, 1917-2013 1
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
Coultas, William F. 1
Curtis, Charles Cutler 1
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
Department of Education 1
Department of Herpetology 1
Department of Ichthyology 1
Drowne, Frederick P. 1
Eyerdam, Walter J. (Walter Jakob), 1892-1974 1
France (Schooner) 1
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
Goelet, Robert G. (Robert Guestier), 1923- 1
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
Hamlin, Hannibal, 1904-1982 1
Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 1
John James Audubon: Science into Art (Exhibition) 1
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Lerner Marine Laboratory 1
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
Macmillan, Lindsay 1
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 1
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 1
Meister, Walter F., 1901-1975 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Morris, Craig, 1939-2006 1
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 1
Moynihan, William J. 1
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
New York Zoological Park 1
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
Nicholson, Thomas D. 1
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
Norton, Ruth 1
Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 1
Quayle, Ernest H., 1891-1956 1
Ralph Appelbaum Associates 1
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
Reekie, Gordon 1
Richards, Guy, 1905- 1
Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932 1
Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron, 1868-1937 1
Ryus, David D. 1
Saunders, John R. (John Richard) 1
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
Shackelford, James B. 1
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
Southwestern Research Station 1
Turnbull, Colin M. 1
United States. Office of Naval Research 1
Wang, Hao-t'ing 1
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 1
Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 1
Witteborg, Lothar P., 1927- 1
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