Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 3 of 3

Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A54
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944. It also contains one folder of family and biographical documents and newspaper clippings received from Charles Gallenkamp, Andrews' biographer, in 1990. The majority of the administrative papers' correspondence concerns requests for speaking engagements about Andrews' explorations, requests for articles, and letters from the public and from companies...
Dates: 1920-1947; Majority of material found within 1934-1944

Central Asiatic Expeditions records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates: 1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933

The Central Asiatic Expeditions : Mongols

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 149
Scope and Contents China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The first sequence concentrates on daily life in a Mongol camp near Tsagan Nor (or White Lake). The camp is a complex of Mongolian tents (yurts) with men, sheep, and dogs milling about; yaks pull heavy logs; and a camel is being trained. The film moves to Urga (now Ulan Bator) where Khalka women with elaborate headresses are seen; a Mongol affected with gigantism enters the city and is photographed with Roy Chapman Andrews. The film then shifts back to the...
Dates: 1922-1925

Filtered By

  • Subject: Scientific X
  • Subject: Mongolia -- Description and travel X
  • Names: American Museum of Natural History X
  • Names: Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Manuscript Collection 2
Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
Paleontologists -- Correspondence 2
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 2
Film Collection 1
∨ more  
Names
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 2
Dodge Brothers 2
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 2
Shackelford, James B. 2
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
∨ more
Young, John McKenzie 2
American Association of Museums 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 1
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
Heinz 1
Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
Lee, Hugh J. 1
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
Nyholm, N. Erik I. 1
Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Pond, Alonzo William, 1894-1986 1
Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 1
Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 1
Rutland (Vermont) Women’s and Men’s Clubs 1
Sanford Memorial Hall of the Biology of Birds 1
Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 1
Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 1
Wilkins, George H., Sir (George Hubert), 1888-1958 1
∧ less