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Belgian Congo species card file I, II, III, IV

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn40
Scope and Contents

These are published records and notes that were accummulated subsequent to the publication of the relevant volumes of "Birds of the Belgian Congo." There are also records of bordering regions.

Dates: 1920s-1960s, undated

Belgian travel photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .B454
Scope and Contents

Various locales including Liege and Bruxelles (Brussels). Shots of churches, avenues, and government buildings.

Dates: circa 1910s

Benjamin Silliman correspondence, 1839-1861.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S55

The Bennett-Bird Bolivia Expedition

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 13
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Bennett-Bird Bolivia Expedition to Bolivia and Peru, 1933-1934. Inca and pre-Inca archaeological sites are the main focus of this film photographed by Junius Bouton Bird, then AMNH assistant field archaeologist. Extensive views of Tiahuanaco, and scenes of Pachacamac, Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Sacsahuaman, Kendo, Puca Pucara, Tambo Machay, Lucurmata, and Chiripa are included. In Pachacamac, AMNH assistant curator of anthropology and expedition leader Wendell C....
Dates: 1933-1934

Bennett-Collier Peruvian Expeditions negatives

 Collection
Identifier: NNC .B466
Content Description

Field photographs (contact prints), nitrate negatives and 630 digital scans of Bennett and Collier from 1936-1938 expeditions to Peru along with some supporting documentation.

Dates: 1936-1938

The Bernheim-Conant Expedition

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 14
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Bernheim-Conant Expedition to northern Africa, 1953-1954. This film is a good overall record of an expedition which covered 16,000 miles in northern Africa, showing Moslem architecture and the great variations in people and terrain of the region. Given the size of the Sahara Desert (roughly the size of the continental United States) and the people inhabiting it, attention is not focused on any one group. The expedition film was made partially due to the urging of Harry...
Dates: 1953-1954

Bernt Balchen field photographs of the Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .B352
Scope and Contents

Field photographs of the Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition.

Dates: 1932-1934

Bernt Balchen photographs of Alaska

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .B351
Scope and Contents

Includes images of Alaskan scenery, hunting and looking for game, planes, camps and lodging, aerial photographs, dogs and dog sleds, one image of "Bernt and crew on historic flight". Locations include Mother Goose Lake, Kotzebue, Beaver, Coffee River, Point Hope, and Anchorage. People include Noel Ross, Bob Reeve, Irene, Bess, and Otto(?) carrying a mastadon ivory.

Dates: 1949

Berthold Laufer photographs of Asia, Mongolia, China, Siberia

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .L38
Scope and Contents

Album containing portrait and photos with Russian and French captions. Photos encompass a geographical range from Siberia, China, Mongolia and possibly Korea.

Dates: undated

Beyond the mountains of the red mist in Hainan

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 15
Scope and Contents Filmed during the Munroe-Clark-Smith Expedition to Hainan, 1937. This film was made by Jack Munroe, a friend of AMNH President Trubee Davison. Munroe asked Davison for official introductions, but the AMNH was not otherwise involved in the expedition. The film opens with a caption explaining that the pictures are the first ever taken of the Loi (i.e. Li) people of Hainan. A map of Hainan, an island in the South China Sea off the south coast of Kuangtung Province, follows and the expedition...
Dates: 1937

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Photographic Print Collection 342
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives. 198
Department Records 193
Film Collection 174
Moving Images 173
Manuscript Collection 141
Field notes 48
Administrative 26
Birds -- Catalogs and collections 26
Scientific expeditions 22
Museum finance 21
Entomologists -- United States -- Correspondence 12
Museum publications 11
Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 11
Public relations 11
Annual reports 10
Birds -- Pictorial works 8
Development 8
Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 8
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Correspondence 7
Education 7
Education -- Museums 7
Museum construction 7
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History 7
Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 7
Publications 7
Birds -- Exhibitions 6
Human resources 6
Museum exhibits 6
Natural history museums -- Educational aspects 6
Ornithologists -- United States -- Correspondence 6
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 6
Zoologists -- United States -- Correspondence 6
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology. Archives. 5
Birds -- Classification 5
Construction 5
Geologists -- United States -- Correspondence. 5
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 5
Library 5
Natural history museum curators 5
Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York 5
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Scientific expeditions -- South America 5
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 4
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Fishes -- Research 4
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Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 4
Natural history museums -- Employees 4
Naturalists -- United States -- Correspondence 4
North American Archaeology 4
Ornithologists -- Correspondence. 4
Paleontology 4
AMNH Expeditions -- Vertebrate Paleontology 3
Anthropologists -- United States -- Correspondence 3
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Birds 3
Birds -- Collection and preservation 3
Butterflies -- Type specimens. 3
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Arctic regions 2
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American 2
Art 2
B/W Print 2
Bird banding 2
Birds -- Australia 2
Birds -- South America -- Catalogs and collections. 2
Botany 2
Brain -- Evolution 2
Butterflies -- Classification -- History -- Sources. 2
Butterflies -- Jamaica. 2
Caves -- Virginia -- Luray 2
Coelacanth 2
Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
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East Asia -- Description and travel 2
Names
American Museum of Natural History 193
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 81
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 31
Division of Invertebrate Zoology 23
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 22
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 22
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 21
Department of Education 18
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 18
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 17
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 17
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 16
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 15
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 15
Hayden Planetarium 15
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 11
Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 11
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 11
Department of Entomology 11
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 11
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 10
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 10
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 9
Brown, Barnum 9
Department of Exhibition 9
Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949 9
Vernay, Arthur Stannard, 1877-1960 9
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 8
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 8
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 8
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 8
Shackelford, James B. 8
Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 8
Department of Ichthyology 7
Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951 7
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 7
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 7
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 7
Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 7
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 6
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 6
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 6
Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 6
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 6
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 6
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 6
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 6
Klein, Alfred J. 6
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 6
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 6
Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 6
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 6
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 5
Australian Government Films (1920-1928) 5
Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 5
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 5
Chubb, S. Harmsted (Samuel Harmsted), 1863-1949 5
David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Research Library and Learning Center 5
Day Roraima Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, 1927-1928 5
Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969 5
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 5
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 5
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 5
Miller, Leo E. (Leo Edward), 1887-1952 5
Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 5
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 5
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 5
Stout, Gardner D. 5
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 4
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 4
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 4
American Museum of Natural History. Office of Public Affairs 4
Archbold, Richard 4
Asaeda, Toshio 4
Brown, F. Martin (Frederick Martin), 1903-1993 4
Burden East Indian Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926) 4
Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 4
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 4
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 4
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 4
Department of Animal Behavior 4
Department of Anthropology 4
Legendre Indochina Expedition (1931-1932) 4
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 4
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 4
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 4
Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 4
Olsen, Chris E., 1880-1965 4
Sage West China Expedition (1934) 4
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 4
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 4
Short, Lester L. 4
Smithsonian Institution 4
Stunkard, Horace W. (Horace Wesley), 1889-1989 4
Tate, G. H. H. (George Henry Hamilton), 1894-1953 4
Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 4
Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 4
Weyer, Edward Moffat, 1904-1998 4
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 3