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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

Joseph Asaph Allen correspondence, 1870-1919

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A451-.A452
Dates: Majority of material found within ( 1899-1902)

Edgar A. Mearns correspondence, 1883-1915

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .M43
Scope and Contents

The collection consists entirely of photocopies of handwritten letters. The first letter, dated May 17, 1883, is from Albert S. Bickmore, founder and superintendent of the AMNH, concerning Mearns's proposed donation of a collection of birds. The second letter is from curator J.A. Allen, discussing details of the specimens. Other correspondents include James P. Chapin, Frank M. Chapman, L.P. Gratacap, C. Hart Merriam, Jenness Richardson and Anthony Woodward.

Dates: 1883-1915

Preparation Molds for Exhibits

 Collection
Identifier: Mem 306
Scope and Contents Molds for exhibits were created and used to prepare the models that compose the exhibits of the American Museum of Natural history, approximately from 1889 to the 1990s, first by the science departments and then by the Department of Exhibition and its different iterations. Models were meant to reproduce existing and extinct animal specimens, humans and cultural artifacts, insects and plant life. The types of mold that can be found in this grouping provide insight on the methods employed to...
Dates: Usage: circa 1889-1990s

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Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 2
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 2
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 2
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Department of Anthropology 2
Department of Exhibition 2
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 2
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
Archbold, Richard 1
Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 1
Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
Department of Herpetology 1
Department of Ichthyology 1
Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 1
Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929 1
Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 1
Gratacap, L. P. (Louis Pope), 1851-1917 1
Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians 1
Hayden Planetarium 1
Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 1
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 1
McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916 1
Miller, Gerrit S. (Gerrit Smith), 1869-1956 1
Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947) 1
Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953) 1
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals 1
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
Patagonian Expedition (1899-1900) 1
Pearson, T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert), 1873-1943 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Richardson, Jenness 1
Skinner, Morris F. 1
Smith, Herbert H. (Herbert Huntington), 1851-1919 1
Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 1
Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 1
Woodward, Anthony, d. 1915 1
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