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Explore21 Expedition to Papua New Guinea Image and Video Collection
Collection
Identifier: MA.2022.003
Scope and Contents
Collection contains digital images and moving pictures captured by Paul Sweet during the 2014 Explore21 Expedition to Papua New Guinea. Content illustrates regular activities of expedition team.
Dates:
2014
Field and Expedition Equipment
Collection
Identifier: Mem 305
Scope and Contents
Since 1887, the American Museum of Natural History has been conducting field expeditions in every continent. This is one of the main resources for the Museum’s scientific research and collection development activities throughout all its disciplines. This grouping holds the equipment that were used during expeditions from around 1877 to 1996. Most of these expeditions required direct interaction with the natural habitat of the subject of study, which usually involves being out in the...
Dates:
Usage: circa 1877-1990s
[Field books of the Third Asiatic Expedition] : [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #42
Scope and Contents
Microfilm copies of field books created during an expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews and sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History.Box 1. Geological reconnaissance in central Mongolia / Dr. Berkey. (1st-9th book, season of 1922) -- Box 2. Geological reconnaissance in central Mongolia / Dr. Charles P. Berkey (10-16th book, season of 1925) -- Box 3. Dr. Berkey's notes, devoted to summaries and topics and problems, season of 1922. T.A.E. summary book, 1923. Dr. Berkey's...
Dates:
1922-1930; Other: 1987 (digitized)
Frontiers of a forbidden land
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 151
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH First Asiatic Zoological Expedition to Yunnan and Fukien, China, 1916-1917. This is the record of the AMNH First Asiatic Zoological Expedition to eastern and southwestern China (Fukien and Yunnan provinces), the purpose of which was to collect zoological specimens and visual ethnographic records. Roy Chapman Andrews, was accompanied by his wife, Yvette Borup Andrews, who served as photographer, and Edmund Heller, collector and explorer, who served as specimen...
Dates:
1916-1917
George K. Cherrie correspondence, 1902 Jan. 9, 1903 Apr. 11
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C454
Scope and content
The collection consists of two handwritten signed letters from Hartert, the first discussing Cherrie's collecting plans for an upcoming expedition to Cayenne, French Guiana, and the second evaluating the results. In the first letter, Hartert requests six specimens of every species of bird from Cayenne; eight of hummingbirds and swifts. Payment is discussed. Hartert says that Oldfield Thomas of the Natural History Museum (London, England) wants mammals from Cayenne, and stresses his own...
Dates:
1902 - 1903
[Glacier Bay] / LR "van Dyck"
Item — Box: RF-108-F, item: 1
Identifier: Art Survey No. 587
Scope and Contents
Painting depicts glacier, small boat on lower left, and mountain. Frame: black painted wood, matted.
Dates:
circa 1900-1950
William King Gregory papers, 1889-1948 (bulk 1906-1948)
Collection
Identifier: Mss .G7441
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of administrative, scientific, academic and personal papers, and correspondence. Papers include Gregory's general correspondence with universities, colleges and scientists about his research topics and publications; correspondence with museums about purchasing replicas of fossils; and with students seeking employement. Other papers include lecture notes prepared for zoology classes emphasizing evolution, 1925-1926 and 1939; and manuscripts and notes for his...
Dates:
1889-1948; Majority of material found within 1906-1948
Edmund Heller diary
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H45
Scope and Contents
The diary is dated from October 9, 1917 to January 12, 1918, with undated addenda and address lists. It contains Heller’s personal reflections and daily activities on his solo return trip from the First Asiatic Zoological Expedition. He discusses the sites and architecture, the flora and weather, as well as the culture and his impressions of the people of each country. He writes of goods for sale, with a particular interest in lantern slides and fur-skinned merchandise. Many of his...
Dates:
October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918
Edmund Otis Hovey records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H683
Scope and Content Note
The Edmund Otis Hovey Records collection consists of approximately 50 field notebooks and journals from his and Mrs. Ettie Hovey’s travels around the Caribbean, North America, Europe and the Arctic; as well as, manuscripts of his papers and lectures notes. The collection also includes photographs, postcards, ephemera and newspaper clippings regarding the Crocker Land Expedition that took place from 1913-1917. The collection spans a period of approximately 20 years, beginning in 1890 and...
Dates:
1890-1919
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- Chicago (Ill.) 1
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- China -- 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
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- Extinct mammals -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 1
- Fishes 1
- Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
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- American Museum of Natural History 27
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 13
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 12
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 6
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 6
- Shackelford, James B. 6
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 5
- Photo Studio 5
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 4
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 4
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 4
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 4
- Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 3
- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 3
- Asiatic Expedition (2nd : 1918-1919) 3
- Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 3
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 3
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 3
- Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 3
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 3
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 3
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 3
- Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 3
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 3
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 3
- Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 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
- Archbold, Richard 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
- Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947-1948) 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
- 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
- MacDougall, Thomas 2
- MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 2
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
- Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 2
- Morden, Irene 2
- National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States 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
- 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
- Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 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
- Alston, Charles Henry, 1907-1977 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 Expedition to Arizona (1940) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1st : 1933-1934) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (2nd : 1936-1937) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (3rd : 1938-1939) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (5th : 1956-1957) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (6th : 1959) 1
- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (7th : 1964) 1
- Archbold Expeditions 1
- Asaeda, Toshio 1
- Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
- Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
- Barrowclough, George F. 1
- Baynes, Ernest Harold, 1868-1925 1
- Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
- Berlepsch, Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von, 1850-1915 1
- Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
- Brass, L. J. (Leonard J.) 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1 ∧ less
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