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The Central Asiatic Expeditions : fauna
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 146
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The expedition collected zoological specimens throughout Mongolia, but the main collecting was done in the Gobi Desert. This film shows some of the animals that were collected for scientific purposes, as well as those kept as pets. The animals collected includes swans, nightjars, ruddy shelducks, grebes, ducks, gazelles, wild asses, and jerboas. Next are seen the animals "kept" by members of the expedition: an...
Dates:
[1921-1930]
Central Asiatic Expeditions : fossils and artifacts
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 147
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film records the paleontological finds of the expedition. The most important is shown first: the discovery of the "perfect dozen" nest of dinosaur eggs by George Olsen, paleontologist, at the Flaming Cliffs of Shabarakh Usu in the Gobi Desert. Bones of Baluchitherium, one of the largest land mammals, a hornless relative of today's rhinoceros, and Embolitherium, an Oligocene mammal, are also seen being...
Dates:
1925
Central Asiatic Expeditions : maps, staff and transportation
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 148
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The film opens with animated maps tracing the routes of the expeditions. Members of the expedition staff are introduced as they work in the field: Roy Chapman Andrews, leader; Walter Granger, chief paleontologist; Albert Thomson, assistant paleontologist; Leslie Erskine Spock, geologist; Alonzo W. Pond, archaeologist; and Captain W. P. T. Hill, topographer. The next segment shows the problems the expedition...
Dates:
1922-1928
The Central Asiatic Expeditions : Peking
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 150
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. Film brought from the U.S. was intended for recording the expedition, but some precious film was used to photograph Peking (now Beijing), the site of the expedition's headquarters. Because of the need to conserve film, this film is choppy, but provides a record of the city in the 1920s. The varied modes of transport are shown: trolleys, ox carts, sedan chairs, rickshaws, camels, wheelbarrows, horsedrawn...
Dates:
1922-1928
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
Crocker Land Expedition field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .C76
Scope and Content Note
This collection is a small subset of copies of prints from the larger Photographic Collection no. 14 – Crocker Land Expedition field photographs. The photographs in this collection are individually sleeved and arranged in four series. Folder 1 consists of 4 photographs that were taken prior to departure for the Arctic and include images of the S.S. “Diana” in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and group portraits of the expedition team.Folder 2 is divided into two sets. The...
Dates:
circa 1913-1917
American Museum of Natural History, Expedition to China correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Mss .E973
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 16 folders of material, primarily typewritten correspondence (some carbon copies), relating to the planning, organization and progress of the Expedition to China. The majority of the letters are between Laufer and Franz Boas (a famed anthropologist who had formerly worked at AMNH and at the time was running the anthropology PhD. program at Columbia University), with Laufer supplying regular reports on his work to Boas, who disseminated and coordinated the...
Dates:
1900-1904; Majority of material found within 1901-1904
Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors : : YMCA lecture series.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .Y55
Dates:
1917 - 1919
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
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- Photographic Print Collection 3
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- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 10
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- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 6
- 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 ∧ less
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