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An African Safari
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 3
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Central African Expedition, 1948. Starting at Cape Town and going round the southern tip of Africa up to Mombasa, Kenya, the AMNH Central African Expedition, led by AMNH director of preparation and installation James Lippitt Clark, then traveled through Nairobi, the Mountains of the Moon in the Ruwenzori Range in Uganda and Zaire, Ripon Falls (Uganda), Bagasson (Congo) and Stanleyville (now Kisangani in Zaire), all north of Lake Victoria, then to Uganda, the Belgian...
Dates:
1948
Mary Jobe Akeley papers, 1859-1940, reproduction
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #76
Scope and Contents
Microfilm of Mary Jobe Akeley papers (1859-1940) relating to Mary Jobe Akeley and her husband Carl E. Akeley.
Dates:
Other: 1987
American Museum Congo Expedition correspondence, 1917-1920.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C661
Dates:
1917 - 1920
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, 1909-1915.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A465
Abstract
Contains one field book titled "Fishes".
Dates:
1909 - 1915
American Museum of Natural History duplicate slides of field photographs, undated.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 438
Abstract
Duplicate film slides taken from hand-colored lantern slides, field photographs from an expedition. Includes image of expedition route in the areas of Cambodia, Siam, Laos, Annam, Cochinchina and Tonkin.
Dates:
undated
American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of Guyana, Brazil, Venezuela, and the Amazon, undated.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 8
Abstract
Duplicate slides made from hand-colored lantern slides of field photographs of the Amazon circa 1927.
Dates:
undated
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
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- Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 72
- Department of Ornithology Archives 25
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- Scientific expeditions 43
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives. 25
- Manuscript Collection 19
- Field notes 17
- Art Survey 16
- Photographic Slide Collection 10
- Archives Microfilm 9
- Film Collection 9
- Moving Images 9
- Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 9
- Scientific expeditions -- Africa. 5
- Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions 5
- Scientific expeditions -- South America 5
- Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 4
- Mongolia -- Discovery and exploration. 4
- Voyages and travels 4
- Explorers -- United States -- Biography 3
- Mammals -- Collection and preservation 3
- Photographic Print Collection 3
- Scientific expeditions -- Asia, Central 3
- Scientific expeditions -- China 3
- Scientific expeditions -- United States 3
- Born-digital 2
- Chiapas (Mexico) -- Antiquities 2
- Chontal Indians -- Social life and customs. 2
- Diaries 2
- Explorers -- Travel. 2
- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) -- Description and travel 2
- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) -- Discovery and exploration. 2
- Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Antiquities. 2
- Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State) -- Antiquities. 2
- Mexico -- Antiquities. 2
- Mexico -- Description and travel. 2
- Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
- Museum exhibits -- Photographs 2
- Natural history -- Mexico. 2
- Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 2
- Oaxaca (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities 2
- Ornithologists -- Correspondence. 2
- Paleontologists -- Correspondence 2
- Paleontology -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Africa, Central 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Asia. 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Australia. 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Canada, Western. 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Exhibitions 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Mexico. 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Mongolia 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Mongolia. 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Oceania 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Venezuela 2
- Venezuela 2
- Women explorers -- United States -- Biography 2
- AMNH Expeditions 1
- Africa, Central -- Description and travel 1
- Africa, Central -- Discovery and exploration 1
- Africa, North -- Description and travel 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
- Asia, Central -- Discovery and exploration. 1
- Atlas Mountains -- Description and travel 1
- Australia -- Description and travel. 1
- Auyantepui (Venezuela) 1
- Beijing (China) 1
- Beijing (China) -- Description and travel 1
- Berbers -- Clothing 1
- Berbers -- Social life and customs 1
- Bird banding 1
- Birds -- Brazil -- Collection and preservation 1
- Birds -- Catalogs and collections 1
- Birds -- Classification 1
- Birds -- Collection and preservation 1
- Birds -- Exhibitions 1
- Birds -- French Guiana -- Cayenne. 1
- Birds -- Polynesia. 1
- Black-and-white photographs 1
- Boran (African people) 1
- Brazil 1
- Caves -- Virginia -- Luray 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- China -- Civilization 1
- China -- Social life and customs 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Discovery and exploration. 1
- Correspondence 1
- Department Records 1
- East Asia -- Description and travel 1
- Egypt -- Antiquities 1
- Egypt -- Description and travel 1
- Ethnological expeditions -- China 1
- Ethnology -- Africa, Central 1
- Ethnology -- Africa, North 1
- Extinct mammals -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 1
- Fishes 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 96
- Names
- American Museum of Natural History 29
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 13
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 12
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 11
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 7
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 6
- Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 6
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 6
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 6
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 6
- Shackelford, James B. 6
- Photo Studio 5
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 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
- American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 3
- Archbold, Richard 3
- Asiatic Expedition (2nd : 1918-1919) 3
- Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 3
- Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947-1948) 3
- Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 3
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 3
- Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 3
- Legendre Indochina Expedition (1931-1932) 3
- Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 3
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 3
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 3
- Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 3
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 3
- Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) 3
- Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 3
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 3
- Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 3
- Allen, Jerome Lee, 1891-1955 2
- American Museum of Natural History. Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 2
- Andrews, Yvette Borup 2
- Archbold Expeditions 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
- Chapman South American Expedition (1st : 1912-1913) 2
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
- Correia, José G., 1881-1954 2
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 2
- Day Roraima Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1927-1928) 2
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 2
- Dodge Brothers 2
- Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929 2
- Ekblaw, W. Elmer (Walter Elmer), 1882-1949 2
- France (Schooner) 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
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
- MacDougall, Thomas 2
- MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 2
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
- Miller South American Expedition (1914-1915) 2
- Miller, Leo E. (Leo Edward), 1887-1952 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
- Quayle, Ernest H., 1891-1956 2
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
- Richardson, William B. 2
- Sage West China Expedition (1934) 2
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 2
- South American Ornithology Expedition (1912-1913) 2
- Tanquary, Maurice Cole, 1881-1944 2
- Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 2
- Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 2
- Van Deusen, Hobart M. 2
- Young, John McKenzie 2
- Adamson, Hans Christian (1890-1968) 1
- Akeley African Expedition to the Belgian Congo of the American Museum of Natural History (1921-1922) 1
- Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 1
- Albatross Expedition (1911) 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
- Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970 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 ∧ less
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