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Ecuador Expeditions collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn161
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and list of birds, departmental meeting minutes, summary of expenditures
Dates:
1912-1922
Found in:
Department of Ornithology Archives
Elsie M.B. Naumburg notes
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn71
Scope and Contents
Handwritten notes created by Naumburg on various expeditions in South America
Dates:
1912-1917
Found in:
Department of Ornithology Archives
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
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
Eugene S. Gaffney Papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 133
Dates:
1893-2024
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
George K. Cherrie collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn150
Scope and Contents
Field notes and catalogs from expeditionary work in Costa Rica, Haiti, the United States, Trinidad, India, the Himalayas and Turkestan, and most prominently in locations across South America, including the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition, correspondence, itemized packing lists, clippings
Dates:
1894-1925
Found in:
Department of Ornithology Archives
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
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- Scientific expeditions 22
- Manuscript Collection 19
- Field notes 18
- Film Collection 8
- Moving Images 8
- Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 6
- Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions 5
- Scientific expeditions -- South America 5
- Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 4
- Photographic Print Collection 3
- Scientific expeditions -- Mongolia 3
- Voyages and travels 3
- Born-digital 2
- Diaries 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
- Ornithologists -- Correspondence. 2
- Paleontologists -- Correspondence 2
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- AMNH Expeditions 1
- Animals -- Classification 1
- Animals -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Catalogs and collections 1
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- Annual reports 1
- Anthropology -- China 1
- Art, Chinese 1
- Artists 1
- Australia -- Description and travel. 1
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- Bird banding 1
- Birds -- Brazil -- Collection and preservation 1
- Birds -- Catalogs and collections 1
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- Fishes -- Evolution. 1
- Fishes -- Nile River Valley -- Phylogeny 1
- Fishes -- Phylogeny 1
- Flags 1
- Fossils 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
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- Inuit -- Greenland 1
- Invertebrates 1
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- Maps 1
- Meteorites -- Oregon 1
- Mexico -- Antiquities. 1
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- Mongolia -- Antiquities 1
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- Moths -- Collection and preservation. 1
- Museum construction 1
- Museum curators 1
- Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 1
- Museum exhibits 1
- Natural history -- Asia, Central. 1
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- American Museum of Natural History 14
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 11
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 10
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 8
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 7
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 6
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 6
- Shackelford, James B. 6
- Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 5
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 5
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 4
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 4
- American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 3
- Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 3
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 3
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 3
- Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 3
- Legendre Indochina Expedition (1931-1932) 3
- Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 3
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 3
- Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) 3
- Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 3
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 3
- Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 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
- Andrews, Yvette Borup 2
- Archbold, Richard 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
- Chapman South American Expedition (1st : 1912-1913) 2
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
- Correia, José G., 1881-1954 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
- 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
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
- Miller South American Expedition (1914-1915) 2
- Miller, Leo E. (Leo Edward), 1887-1952 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
- South American Ornithology Expedition (1912-1913) 2
- Tanquary, Maurice Cole, 1881-1944 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
- Albatross Expedition (1911) 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
- Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970 1
- Archbold Expeditions 1
- Asaeda, Toshio 1
- Ascension Island, 1941-1958 1
- Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
- Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
- Bartlett-Norcross Expedition (1933) 1
- Beck, Rollo Howard, 1870-1950 1
- Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
- Berlepsch, Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig, Graf von, 1850-1915 1
- Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
- Birdseye, Clarence, 1886-1956 1
- Boyd-Chapin Safari (1956-1957) 1
- Boyle, Howarth S. 1
- Bryan, E. H. (Edwin Horace), 1898-1985 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Butler Expedition to Australia (1967) 1
- Butler, H. (Harry) 1
- Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1
- CAE II 100th Anniversary Rephotography Mission 1 ∧ less
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