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Frank E. Lutz collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .L88
Scope and content The collection consists of three boxes of handwritten notes and notebooks, typescripts, correspondence and publications, with accompanying photoprints, most relating to Lutz's research, with a few personal items. Box 2 contains three 78 rpm recordings of insect and frog sounds. The bulk of the research notes involve Lutz's work on insect sounds, primarily those of grasshoppers and crickets, with some of bees and frogs; and of his experiments with ultraviolet patterns in butterflies. Most of...
Dates: 1915-1938; Majority of material found within 1933-1938

Malcolm Arth collection, 1939-1965

 Collection
Identifier: DR 051
Scope and content

Flyers, programs for Museum public programs and lectures, education publications. Children's thank-you notes and drawings.

Dates: 1939 - 1965

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

 Collection
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

National Center for Science Literacy, Education and Technology (NCSLET) Retired Curriculum collections

 Collection
Identifier: MA2022-004
Scope and Contents

This collection contains curriculum material that has been retired from the AMNH website. The curricula were designed for educators, students and families and includes activities, readings, and other content related to varied science subjects. They are arranged in their original subject groupings as curriculum sets.

Dates: Existence: 1998-2015

James Arthur Oliver papers

 Collection
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

 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

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Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 4
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Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 3
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Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 3
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 3
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 2
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 2
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 2
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 2
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 2
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 2
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 2
Department of Geology and Paleontology 2
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
Lerner Marine Laboratory 2
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 2
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 2
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
Nicholson, Thomas D. 2
Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 2
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 2
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 1
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Communications. Editorial 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Insects and Spiders 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Public Instruction 1
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Aronson, Lester R. (Lester Ralph), 1911-1996 1
Atz, James W. 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
Brand, Albert R. (Albert Rich) 1
Breen, Ann 1
Brooklyn Museum 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1
Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 1
Chapin Field Trip to the Eastern Congo (1953-1958) 1
Chapman, Clark R. 1
Chubb, S. Harmsted (Samuel Harmsted), 1863-1949 1
Clark, Eugenie 1
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 1
Coles, Charles, 1917-2013 1
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
Decker, George 1
Department of Entomology 1
Department of Exhibition 1
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Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 1
Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929 1
Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 1
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
Garton, Richard I. 1
Goelet, Robert G. (Robert Guestier), 1923- 1
Hayden Planetarium 1
Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 1
International Tuberculosis Exhibition 1
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 1
Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 1
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 1
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
Kalbfleisch Field Research Station 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
MacDougall, Thomas 1
Marsh-Darien Expedition (1924) 1
Mathewson, Robert F. 1
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 1
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 1
Meister, Walter F., 1901-1975 1
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 1
Miller, Gerrit S. (Gerrit Smith), 1869-1956 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
National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals 1
National Center for Science Literacy, Education and Technology 1
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