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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
Central Asiatic Expeditions copy slides, 1966.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 164
Abstract
Photographic copy slides made from the original hand-colored lantern slides. Field photographs from the Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930). Images of Mongolian people and landscape, fossil beds where dinosaur eggs were found and scenes from traveling on land. Places include Mongolia, Tibet, China and Gobi Desert.
Dates:
1966
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
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
[Field books of the Third Asiatic Expedition] : [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #42
Dates:
1922 - 1930
Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930 : [microform] / Roy Chapman Andrews.
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #31
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1919 - 1930
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- Subject: Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) X
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- Film Collection 3
- Moving Images 3
- Archives Microfilm 2
- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) -- Description and travel 2
- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) -- Discovery and exploration. 2
- Manuscript Collection 2
- Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
- Mongolia -- Discovery and exploration. 2
- Paleontologists -- Correspondence 2
- Paleontology -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Asia, Central 2
- Asia, Central -- Discovery and exploration. 1
- Extinct mammals -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 1
- Geology -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 1
- Mongolia -- Antiquities 1
- Natural history -- Asia, Central. 1
- Neolithic period -- Mongolia 1
- Paleontology -- China. 1
- Paleontology -- Mongolia. 1
- Photographic Print Collection 1
- Photographic Slide Collection 1
- Scientific expeditions -- China 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Mongolia 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Mongolia. 1
- Vertebrates, Fossil -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 8
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 8
- American Museum of Natural History 7
- Shackelford, James B. 4
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 3
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 3
- Asiatic Expedition (2nd : 1918-1919) 2
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 2
- Dodge Brothers 2
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 2
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 2
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 2
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
- Young, John McKenzie 2
- American Association of Museums 1
- Andrews, Yvette Borup 1
- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
- Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
- Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
- Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
- Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
- Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
- Heinz 1
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
- Lee, Hugh J. 1
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
- McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
- Nyholm, N. Erik I. 1
- Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955 1
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
- Photo Studio 1
- Pond, Alonzo William, 1894-1986 1
- Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 1
- Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 1
- Rutland (Vermont) Women’s and Men’s Clubs 1
- Sanford Memorial Hall of the Biology of Birds 1
- Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 1
- Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
- Wang, Hao-t'ing 1
- Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 1
- Wilkins, George H., Sir (George Hubert), 1888-1958 1 ∧ less
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