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[Letter] : New York [N.Y.], to Francis Nathan

 Item
Identifier: Mss .D88
Scope and content

The letter is one handwritten, signed sheet, addressed to "My dear friend Francis.". The subject is personal, accepting Nathan's invitation to visit, and referring to himself as "your friend from the gorilla country." Included with the letter is a fragment, signed by du Chaillu, addressed to "My dear old friend Francis Nathan" and dated Aug. 30, 1900.

Dates: 1896 March 17

Letters : : Berlin, 1888 Sept. 9, 1904 June 20.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S354

Macomber photographic slide collection, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 346
Abstract

Photographs taken in East Africa, Kenya and Tanganyika. Images of animals and hunting. Includes koodoo, gerenuk, ostrich, rhinoceros, guinea fowl, zebras, and ant hill.

Dates: undated

Papers: [microform]

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #75

Philip Manwaring Plant collection, 1936-1941.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .P53

Photographic slides of travel in Africa, 1977-1978.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 576
Abstract

Travel photographs taken mostly in Kenya. A few slides in unknown locations, probably Africa. Includes images of safari animals, African people in native dress, market scenes, and street scenes.

Dates: 1977-1978

Photographs of African people and culture

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .A381
Scope and Content Note The majority of this collection consists of photographs and photographic postcards of African people, locations and objects. Many of the photographs are portraits and various cultures are represented. Most of the images are captioned and several items are accompanied by brief notes.The earliest dated item is among a group of photographs collected by Franz Uri Boas for research (Folder 1). These include various objects of ritual and daily use, pygmies at the 1904 St. Louis...
Dates: circa 1904-1950

Picton and Mack photographic slides of African Textiles, 1979.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 581
Abstract

Photographs of African textiles and textile weaving from the book African textiles: looms, weaving and design by John Picton and John Mack.

Dates: 1979

R. E. Colville photographic slide collection of spiders, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 183
Abstract

Photographs of spiders from California, Costa Rica, and South Africa. Species names identified on each slide.

Dates: undated

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Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 38
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Photographic Slide Collection 23
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Scientific expeditions -- Africa. 5
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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives. 2
Explorers -- Africa, Central -- Correspondence. 2
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Safaris -- Africa 2
Scientific expeditions -- Canada, Western. 2
South Africa 2
Tanzania 2
Women explorers -- United States -- Biography 2
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Africa -- Antiquities 1
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Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) 1
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Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 4
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 4
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 4
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Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 2
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 2
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 2
Ker, Donald I. (Donald Ian), 1905-1981 2
Klein, Alfred J. 2
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 2
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 2
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Akeley African Expedition to the Belgian Congo of the American Museum of Natural History (1921-1922) 1
American Museum of Natural History. Library 1
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 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
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953) 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (5th : 1956-1957) 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (6th : 1959) 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (7th : 1964) 1
Archbold Expeditions 1
Archbold, Richard 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Beals, Jessie Tarbox 1
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Brass, L. J. (Leonard J.) 1
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
CBS/AMNH Adventure Series (1953-1956) 1
Campbell, William Durant, 1907-1995 1
Cape York Expedition (1948) 1
Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947-1948) 1
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 1
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
Denham, Reginald, 1894-1983 1
Department of Education 1
Department of Exhibition 1
Department of Ichthyology 1
Dickinson, W. V. D. (William Vicris Digby), 1889-1948 1
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 1
Dyer, Walter Gurnee 1
Emmerich, A. J. 1
Fields, Ruth 1
Foster, Robert 1
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
Goodwin, George Gilbert 1
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
Jansson, Arthur August, 1890-1960 1
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
Kaston, B. J. (Benjamin Julian), 1906-1985 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957 1
Larson, Thomas J. (Thomas John) 1
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
Mack, John 1
Martin Johnson African Expedition (2nd : 1924-1928) 1
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Morden, Irene 1
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
Musser, Guy G. 1
Nathan, Francis 1
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
Pallister, John 1
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
Raddatz, Richard 1
Rand, Austin Loomer, 1905-1982 1
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
Richardson, William B. 1
Rockwell, Robert H. 1
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
Skinner, H. D. (Henry Devenish), 1886-1978 1
Spalding-Peterson Expedition (1959) 1
Sulawesi Expeditions (1973-1976) 1
Tate, G. H. H. (George Henry Hamilton), 1894-1953 1
Tate, Geoffrey M., 1898-1964 1
Trask, Louise B. 1
Van Deusen, Hobart M. 1
Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 1
William D. Campbell East African Expedition (1934-1935) 1
William D. Campbell Sudan Expedition (1937-1938) 1
Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 1
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