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A Celebrated Chief, Delaware

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1008
Description

Oil painting depicting three full length portraits, center man wearing decorated coat carrying rifle, man on right wearing decorated coat, single feather and rifle, woman on right wering decorated robe.

Dates: 1853-1870

A Celebration of Birds: Louis Agassiz Fuertes and His Art photographic slides, 1983.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 89C
Abstract

Slides of artwork displayed in the temporary exhibition A Celebration of Birds: Louis Agassiz Fuertes and His Art, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1983.

Dates: 1983

A day with John Burroughs

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 171
Scope and Contents John Burroughs (1837-1921), author and naturalist, is filmed going about his daily routine at his home, Woodchuck Lodge, in the Catskill Mountains. This film is unique for the time as it was filmed in color; it is the earliest color film in the collection. It was made using a process called "prizma" color, in which both sides of the positive film were coated with emulsion; one side was dyed blue and green, the other side red and yellow. When projected together the image is in natural color...
Dates: 1919

A. J. Emmerich photographic slide collection of animals in Africa

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 213
Scope and Contents

Photographs of animals in nature in Africa.

Dates: 1968

A little journey through Iran

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 183
Scope and Contents A Little Journey through Iran is a record of the Dyers' travels through that country. Included in the film are magnificent shots of the Tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae, and the tombs of the other Achaemeni kings, Darius I, Darius II and Xerxes, and the nearby ruins of Persepolis. The Dyers also visited and filmed Esfahan, Shiraz, and the port city of Bandar Abbas, where the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf meet. Footage of Persian women in brightly colored clothes and veils, an oasis...
Dates: 1971

A. Miller photographic slide collection, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 355
Abstract

Photographs of animals and flowers in nature. Two photographs of a giant panda and giraffe at the New York Zoological Park (Bronx Zoo).

Dates: undated

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Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 2642
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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 35
Catlin, George, 1796-1872 31
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927 31
Audubon, John Woodhouse, 1812-1862 29
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969 28
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 27
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 27
Jansson, Arthur August, 1890-1960 27
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 26
Department of Education 25
Chesek, Craig 24
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 23
Division of Invertebrate Zoology 23
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 21
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Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 20
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 19
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 17
CBS/AMNH Adventure Series (1953-1956) 17
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Hope, John William, 1889-1982 17
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 16
Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 16
Buba, Joy Flinsch, 1904-1998 15
Mochi, Ugo, 1889-1977 15
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 14
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 13
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 12
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 11
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 11
Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 11
Christman, Erwin S., 1885-1921 11
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 11
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 11
Department of Entomology 11
Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew, 1808-1889 11
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 11
Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 10
Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951 10
Kane, Robert W., 1910-1982 10
Vernay, Arthur Stannard, 1877-1960 10
Brown, Barnum 9
Department of Ichthyology 9
Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949 9
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 9
New York State Roosevelt Memorial 9
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 9
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 9
Singer, Arthur 9
Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 9
American Museum of Natural History. Library 8
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 8
Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946 8
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 8
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 8
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 8
Horsfall, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce), 1869-1948 8
Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912 8
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 8
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 8
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 8
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 8
Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 8
Puza, Frank 8
Rouland, Orlando 8
Shackelford, James B. 8
Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 7
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 7
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 7
Kalmenoff, Matthew 7
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 7
Rose Center for Earth and Space 7
Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 7
Seidel, Alexander 7
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 7
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 6
American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 6
American Museum of Natural History. Office of Public Affairs 6
Butler, Howard Russell, 1856-1934 6
Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 6
Fraser, James Earle, 1876-1953 6
Fulda, Elisabeth Rungius, 1879-1968 6
Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969 6
Klein, Alfred J. 6
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 6
Raymond, Percy E. (Percy Edward), 1879-1952 6
Root, Nina J. 6
Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 6
Weyer, Edward Moffat, 1904-1998 6
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