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The $2,000,000 J.P. Morgan gem collection ; Lampreys ; Antarctic animals

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 32
Scope and Contents SEGMENT 1: The $2,000,000 J. P. Morgan Gem Collection. Brian Mason, AMNH curator of physical geology and mineralogy, describes the museum's collection of gems, which consists of diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds. Mason discusses how these gems were cut and polished, using films produced by DeBeers Consolidated Mines Ltd. and E. J. Mauther. The reasons why the stones are so valuable are also examined. SEGMENT 2: Lampreys. Lampreys and their detrimental effect on the fishing industry in...
Dates: 1953

Franz Boas photograph collection

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Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Content Note The Franz Boas Photo Collection consists mainly of photographs of Northwest Coast Natives from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition: 1897-1902, sponsored by AMNH, and the Boas Expedition to Northwest Territories in 1894. There was no original order within this collection and most of the collection is stamped with the marking, “From the Boas Collection 43.” Many other sources besides Boas contributed to this collection, including the British Columbia Provincial Museum, the Field Museum of...
Dates: 1868-1943; Majority of material found within 1894-1902

Camping Among the Indians

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 22
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH-Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest, 1927. The AMNH Woodcraft Indian trip was led by Ernest Thompson Seton, the author, and George Clyde Fisher (AMNH curator of visual instruction). The film depicts a variety of dances (the buffalo, hood, war, eagle, corn, deer and snowbird) performed by Indians of the Tesuque, Taos, Acoma and Santa Clara Pueblos. Fisher also filmed other activities of the local people during the trip, most notably an intertribal ceremony in Gallup,...
Dates: 1927

Cyril F. dos Passos papers, 1932-1978

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Identifier: Mss .D67
Scope and content

The collection consists of minimally processed material. It is primarily correspondence, with some administrative papers, notes, newspaper clippings and a few personal and family photographs. Some general subject headings are noted in pencil on the outside of the boxes, such as Lepidoptera, Entomology, Zoological nomenclature and Carnegie [Institute]. Correspondents include F. Martin Brown, Jeane D. Gunder, Alexander B. Klots and Charles Lee Remington.

Dates: 1932 - 1978

Henry Edwards papers, 1854-1897

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Identifier: Mss .E39-.E391
Dates: Majority of material found within ( 1862-1891)

Francis Lee Jaques field diaries and sketchbooks

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Identifier: Mss .J37
Summary Francis Lee Jaques (28 September 1887-24 July 1969), also known as Lee Jaques, is celebrated for his diorama paintings at the American Museum of Natural History, executed during the early and mid-twentieth century. A frequent collaborator with Museum curator and ornithologist Frank M. Chapman (1864-1945), the artist is especially associated with the Whitney Memorial Hall of Pacific Bird Life (that was co-designed with Robert Cushman Murphy, Museum curator and ornithologist). This collection...
Dates: 1925-1935

Alfred C. Kinsey Entomological papers

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Identifier: Mss .K56
Scope and Contents The collection consists of Kinsey’s scientific work on gall wasps. It covers the whole range of research and scientific study from notes and observations made in the field in his notebooks and research notes to publications made by Kinsey on gall wasps. Subjects include taxonomic names such as Amphibolips and Xystoteras as well as broad categories like Research notes and Worksheets. Geographic notations of distribution and other subject matters consist of numbers or bar charts written in ink...
Dates: circa 1917-1941; Majority of material found within 1917-1938

Original portraits of Indian chiefs [art original] / by Samuel Seymour, official artist of Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1920

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Identifier: 61-D
Scope and Contents

Portraits of six members of the 1821-1822 Native American delegation to Washington, DC. Probably copies of paintings by Charles Bird King lost in the 1865 Smithsonian fire. "These paintings are by neither Seymour nor King." Cf. note by William Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institution, May 1970. Caption and date handwritten on verso of each painting.

Dates: 1822

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Manuscript Collection 13
Entomologists -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Entomologists -- Correspondence. 2
Entomologists -- North America -- Correspondence. 2
Entomology -- North America 2
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Film Collection 2
Lepidoptera -- Catalogs and collections -- New York (State) -- New York. 2
Lepidoptera -- North America -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
Moving Images 2
Aleuts 1
Animals -- Nomenclature 1
Animals -- North America -- Popular works 1
Antarctica -- Description and travel 1
Anthropologists -- Russia (Federation) -- Correspondence 1
Anthropologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 1
Artists 1
Bees -- North Dakota -- Classification 1
Birds -- Exhibitions 1
Butterflies -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 1
Butterflies -- North America -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 1
Butterflies -- Type specimens -- North America -- Catalogs and collections. 1
Butterflies -- Type specimens. 1
Department Records 1
Diaries 1
Ecology -- Florida. 1
Entomologists 1
Ethnological expeditions -- Northwest Coast of North America. 1
Ethnological expeditions -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia. 1
Ethnologists -- Russia (Federation) -- Correspondence. 1
Ethnologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 1
Ethnology -- Alaska. 1
Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia. 1
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Sources. 1
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy -- History -- Sources. 1
Fishing -- Great Lakes (North America) 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Washington (State) -- Klickitat County. 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Washington (State) -- White Salmon River Region. 1
Gall wasps 1
Gall wasps -- Anatomy 1
Gall wasps -- North America -- Classification 1
Gall wasps -- West (U.S.) -- Identification 1
Gem cutting 1
Indian dance -- Southwest, New 1
Indians of North America -- Languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. 1
Indians of North America -- Maine. 1
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America 1
Indians of North America -- Portraits 1
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Rites and ceremonies 1
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. 1
Insects -- North Dakota -- Classification 1
Kamchadals. 1
Kansa Indians 1
Klikitat Indians. 1
Koryaks. 1
Kwakiutl Indians 1
Lampreys -- Great Lakes (North America) 1
Lepidoptera -- Alberta -- Classification. 1
Lepidoptera -- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) -- Classification. 1
Lepidoptera -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 1
Lepidoptera -- North America -- Catalogs and collections. 1
Lepidoptera -- North America -- Classification. 1
Lepidoptera -- Type specimens -- North America -- Catalogs and collections. 1
Mammals -- Evolution. 1
Mammals -- North America. 1
Mammals, Fossil -- North America. 1
Mammals, Fossil. 1
Museum construction 1
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 1
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Museum exhibits 1
Names, Geographical -- Washington (State) 1
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Naturalists -- Biography. 1
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Naturalists -- United States. 1
North America 1
North America -- Climate -- Maps 1
Ontogeny. 1
Ornithologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Ornithology -- United States 1
Paleontologists -- United States -- Biography. 1
Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Paleontology -- Research -- History -- Sources. 1
Passamaquoddy Indians. 1
Pawnee Indians 1
Photographers -- United States. 1
Photographic Print Collection 1
Pioneers -- Washington (State) -- Correspondence. 1
Portraits 1
Potlatch -- British Columbia 1
Precious stones -- Catalogs and collections -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Pueblo dance 1
Saurischia. 1
Scientific expeditions 1
Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions 1
Teeth, Fossil. 1
Tortricidae -- Catalogs and collections -- New York (State) -- New York. 1
Tortricidae -- North America -- Catalogs and collections. 1
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American Museum of Natural History 4
Department of Entomology 4
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 2
Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 2
United States. Department of Agriculture 2
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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
Audubon 1
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 1
Audubon, M. Eliza (Mary Eliza) 1
Audubon, Maria R. (Maria Rebecca), 1843-1925 1
Banks, Nathan, 1868-1953 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Beals, Jessie Tarbox 1
Beutenmüller, William, 1864-1934 1
Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 1
Brown, F. Martin (Frederick Martin), 1903-1993 1
CBS/AMNH Adventure Series (1953-1956) 1
Carnegie Institute 1
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
Chapman, Clark R. 1
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 1
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
DeBeers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. 1
Dos Passos, Cyril F. (Cyril Franklin), 1887-1986 1
E. J. Mauther 1
Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949 1
Friese, Heinrich, 1860-1948 1
Glass, Aaron 1
Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 1
Gunder, Jeane Daniel, 1899- 1
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 1
Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937 1
Jochelson-Brodsky, Dina 1
King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862 1
Klots, Alexander B. (Alexander Barrett), 1903-1989 1
Lennon, R. E. (Robert E.) 1
Lincoln, Thomas, 1812-1883 1
Mason, Brian (Brian Harold), 1917-2009 1
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
Natural History Museum (London, England) 1
Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924 1
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
Remington, Charles Lee 1
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 1
Seymour, Samuel, active 1797-1822 1
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
Smithsonian Institution 1
Stevens, Orin Alva, 1885-1979 1
Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 1
Thayer, John Eliot, 1862- 1
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1
Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929 1
University of Kansas 1
Weyer, Edward Moffat, 1904-1998 1
Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 1
Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest of the American Museum of Natural History (1927) 1
Yale University 1
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