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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
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- American Association of Museums 1
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 1
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
- Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
- Dodge Brothers 1
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 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
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Pond, Alonzo William, 1894-1986 1
- Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 1
- Rutland (Vermont) Women’s and Men’s Clubs 1
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
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