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Department of Animal Behavior photographic slide collection, circa 1960s-1970s.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 671
Abstract

Field photographs from the AMNH Department of Animal Behavior. Mostly of fish and marine life with slides of graphs and charts.

Dates: circa 1960s-1970s

Eugenie Clark photographic slide collection of Egypt, Red Sea and South Pacific, circa 1950-1959.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 172
Abstract

Mostly field photographs of marine life and native people and their habitats taken at the Red Sea Marine Biological Station, Red Sea, Caroline Islands, Palau Islands, Micronesia, Guam and Honolulu, Hawaii. Also includes images of a pyramid, Malayan Tapir in Cairo Zoo and Roman Quarry at Mons Claudianus. Few pictures of buildings in Egypt. Also included are 7 slides of sea urchins, sea anemone and marine sandworms in the United States.

Dates: circa 1950-1959

George G. Lower photographic slides of ocean life, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 344
Abstract

Photographs of marine invertebrates and sea animals, such as sharks, sea horses, shellfish and fish.

Dates: undated

Great Barrier Reef Expedition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 250
Abstract

Field photographs of marine life and mammals in Australia, Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1962. Includes birds, kangaroos, koalas, and underwater photographs of invertebrates and fish.

Dates: 1962-1965

Photographic slides of fish and marine invertebrates, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 558
Abstract

Close up photographs of fish and marine invertebrates, some taken in the AMNH Hall of Ocean Life. Some animals include starfish, lungfish (coelacanth), seahorse, octopus, eel, coral, barnacles, goldfish, shrimp, and a man-trap clam. Includes images of models.

Dates: undated

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