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Discovery Room

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Identifier: EXH.022

Education Service Materials

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Identifier: Mem 310
Scope and Contents The Department of Education at the American Museum of Natural History takes Museum research and scientific data and makes it accessible to teachers and students. In 1903, the Museum partnered with schools to create a system of circulating natural history collections, developed and designed by the Museum to provide teachers with teaching materials, specimens, and artifacts to support specially designed educational readings and lesson plans on a variety of subjects in the natural sciences....
Dates: Majority of material found within 1903-circa 1970; 1895-circa1970

Employee Benefits Association records, circa 1920-1979

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Identifier: DR 036
Scope and content

Bank statements, checkbooks, correspondence, minutes, membership certificates, and cash ledgers (1947-1969, 1970-1975) relating to the operations of the Employee Benefits Association. Approximately 10 bound volumes.

Dates: 1920 - 1979

Exhibition Tools and Materials

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Identifier: Mem 308
Scope and Contents Since its inception in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History had exhibitions related to the natural world, human cultures, and the universe. The habitat dioramas are predominantly featured in the Museum, with the first appearing in the late 1800s. A combination of distinct methods and tools was used to create the background, foreground, and taxidermy specimens that compose these exhibits, which improved with the advancement of technology and new knowledge.The exhibition...
Dates: Usage: circa 1887-1990s

Fourth Floor Fossil Hall Renovation, Final Documentation of the Interpretive System

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Identifier: DR 033
Scope and content Consists of eleven oversize binders and three spiral bound volumes for the final documentation of the museum's fourth floor renovation completed in the 1990s, prepared by Ralph Appelbaum Associates Incorporated (RAA). The final documentation of the interpretive system covers all fossil exhibitions: The Halls of Saurischian and Ornithischian Dinosaurs, the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives, which includes the Hall of Primitive Mammals and the Paul and Irma...
Dates: 1992-1996

Francis Lee Jaques photographic slides of paintings

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Identifier: PSC 89D
Scope and Contents Slides of paintings shown in the temporary exhibition Francis Lee Jaques: Artist and Naturalist, held at the American Museum of Natural History, September 1983-January 1984. Paintings include "Golden Twilight: Baldpates" "Egrets in Cypress Swamp" "The Road West" "Morrissey and Glaucous Gulls" "Wings Across the Sky" "Caribou on Ice" "Eiders Offshore" "The Old West Passes" and others. The exhibition was organized by the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota,...
Dates: undated

George A. Treadwell papers, 1870-1912

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Identifier: Mss .T74
Dates: (bulk 1870-1896).

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Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
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Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
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Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
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