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Mary Jobe Akeley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A342-.A344

American Museum of Natural History annual report summaries from Henry Edward Crampton and Roy Waldo Miner, 1908-1932.

 Collection
Identifier: DR 156
Abstract

Summaries written by Henry Edward Crampton and Roy Waldo Miner for AMNH annual reports. Topics include new installations to AMNH exhibit halls, including the Darwin Hall, expedition summaries, research and publications, specimen collections and accessions. Also includes a five-page timeline of expeditions and field work from 1909-1932.

Dates: 1908 - 1932

American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition field book on fish

 Item
Identifier: Mss .A465
Scope and Contents

Contains one field book titled "Fishes".

Dates: 1909-1915

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

Second Asiatic Expedition field photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .A852
Content Description

500 black and white photographic prints mounted on cards with captions on verso.

Dates: 1918-1919

Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell

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Identifier: Mss .C36
Scope and content Typescripts recount two of Campbell's expeditions: to East Africa, Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935; and to the Dunqulah region of Sudan, Dec. 1937-1938(?); primarily to collect specimens for the AMNH. Both reports are undated, and the account for the Sudan expedition appears to be unfinished. The reports mention Campbell's associates and co-leaders: hunter and photographer Alfred J. Klein in East Africa, and hunter Major W.V.D. Dickinson in Sudan. The appendix to the report on the East African...
Dates: 1935 - 1938

CAE II 100th Anniversary Rephotography Mission Image collection

 Collection
Identifier: MA.2021.010
Content Description Images and progress reporting produced by J. Kelly Cluer and M. Saandar during the CAE II 100th Anniversary Rephotography Mission project. Bulk of the material is born-digital, with the exception of some analog poster-sized printouts of comparison shots. Material includes original rephotographs, compiled images in pdf format comparing the historic photograph with the rephotograph, powerpoint presentations and a progress report. AMNH Research Library collection images from the Second Asiatic...
Dates: 2016 - 2023

T. Donald Carter field books

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .C376
Scope and Contents The collection includes diaries and field notebooks from the 1927-1928 Day Roraima Expedition, the 1931-1932 Legendre Indochina Expedition, and the 1934 Sage West China Expedition, as well as material on the 1946-1947 Rutherford African Expedition. There are also diaries labeled by location and year(s): Costa Rica 1914; Abyssinia 1927-1929; Africa 1938; East Africa 1958; and Ungava, Québec 1953; and some yearly diaries. Carter participated in 27 expeditions in North and South America,...
Dates: 1910-1972

T. Donald Carter photographic print collection

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .C37
Scope and Contents

The T. Donald Carter photo print collection includes prints from his AMNH expeditions to Roraima, Indo-China, West China and Abyssinia. Also included are two boxes of personal and family photographs. Some of the images are captioned on the verso. Personal and family photographs which were mounted may have descriptive captions on the back.

Dates: 1927-1934

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Manuscript Collection 19
Film Collection 8
Moving Images 8
Scientific expeditions 8
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 6
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Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 4
Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions 4
Photographic Print Collection 3
Scientific expeditions -- Mongolia 3
Voyages and travels 3
Born-digital 2
Diaries 2
Field notes 2
Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) -- Description and travel 2
Mammals -- Collection and preservation 2
Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
Mongolia -- Discovery and exploration. 2
Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 2
Paleontologists -- Correspondence 2
Scientific expeditions -- Africa 2
Scientific expeditions -- Asia, Central 2
Scientific expeditions -- China 2
Scientific expeditions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
AMNH Expeditions 1
Animals -- Classification 1
Animals -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Catalogs and collections 1
Animals -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Classification. 1
Annual reports 1
Anthropology -- China 1
Art, Chinese 1
Artists 1
Australia -- Description and travel. 1
Beijing (China) 1
Beijing (China) -- Description and travel 1
Bird banding 1
Birds -- Brazil -- Collection and preservation 1
Birds -- Classification 1
Birds -- Collection and preservation 1
Birds -- Exhibitions 1
Birds -- French Guiana -- Cayenne. 1
Caves -- Virginia -- Luray 1
Chiapas (Mexico) -- Antiquities 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
China -- Civilization 1
China -- Social life and customs 1
Chontal Indians -- Social life and customs. 1
Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Discovery and exploration. 1
Department Records 1
East Asia -- Description and travel 1
Ethnological expeditions -- China 1
Explorers -- Travel. 1
Explorers -- United States -- Biography 1
Extinct mammals -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 1
Fishes 1
Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
Fishes -- Evolution. 1
Fishes -- Nile River Valley -- Phylogeny 1
Fishes -- Phylogeny 1
Flags 1
Game protection -- United States 1
Geography 1
Geology -- Asia, Central. 1
Greenland 1
Honolulu (Hawaii) 1
Hunting -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Hunting guns 1
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Antiquities. 1
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State) -- Antiquities. 1
Inuit -- Canada, Northern 1
Inuit -- Greenland 1
Invertebrates 1
Khalkha (Mongolian people) 1
Mammals -- Brazil -- Collection and preservation 1
Mammals -- Classification 1
Mammals -- Evolution. 1
Meteorites -- Oregon 1
Mexico -- Antiquities. 1
Mexico -- Description and travel. 1
Mongolia -- Antiquities 1
Mongols -- Dwellings 1
Moths -- Collection and preservation. 1
Museum construction 1
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 1
Museum exhibits 1
Natural history -- Asia, Central. 1
Natural history -- Mexico. 1
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Naxi (Chinese people) 1
Neolithic period -- Mongolia 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
New Zealand -- Description and travel. 1
North America 1
North Star Bay (Greenland) 1
Oaxaca (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities 1
Ontogeny. 1
Ornithologists -- Correspondence. 1
Ornithologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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Names
American Museum of Natural History 13
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 10
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 8
Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 6
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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 6
Shackelford, James B. 6
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 4
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 4
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 3
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 3
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 3
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 3
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 3
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 2
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 2
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 2
Allen, Jerome Lee, 1891-1955 2
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 2
Andrews, Yvette Borup 2
Asiatic Expedition (2nd : 1918-1919) 2
Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition (1st : 1916-1917) 2
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 2
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 2
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 2
Brown, Barnum 2
Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 2
Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 2
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
Day Roraima Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1927-1928) 2
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 2
Dodge Brothers 2
Ekblaw, W. Elmer (Walter Elmer), 1882-1949 2
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 2
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 2
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 2
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
Legendre Indochina Expedition (1931-1932) 2
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 2
Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 2
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 2
Olsen, George, d. 1939 2
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 2
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
Sage West China Expedition (1934) 2
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
Tanquary, Maurice Cole, 1881-1944 2
Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 2
Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 2
Young, John McKenzie 2
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Akeley African Expedition to the Belgian Congo of the American Museum of Natural History (1921-1922) 1
Akeley, Delia J. (Delia Julia), 1875?-1970 (1875 December 5-1970 May 22) 1
Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 1
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 1
American Association of Museums 1
American Legion (Steamship) 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 1
Archbold, Richard 1
Asaeda, Toshio 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Berlepsch, Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von, 1850-1915 1
Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1
CAE II 100th Anniversary Rephotography Mission 1
Campbell, William Durant, 1907-1995 1
Chapman, Clark R. 1
Cherrie Expedition to French Guiana (1902-1903) 1
Cluer, J. Kelly 1
Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
Department of Anthropology 1
Department of Education 1
Department of Exhibition 1
Department of Geology and Mineralogy 1
Department of Ichthyology 1
Dickinson, W. V. D. (William Vicris Digby), 1889-1948 1
Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 1
Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929 1
Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 1
Explore21 Expedition to Papua New Guinea 1
Field Expedition to Brazil (1926) 1
Field Museum of Natural History 1
Field, Marshall, 1893-1956 1
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
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