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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Archives collections belonging to and managed by the Museum's Department of Ornithology.

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Murphy and Gilliard bibliography files

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn252
Scope and Contents

Bibliographical card files for R. C.Murphy and E. T. Gilliard.

Dates: undated

New Zealand Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn73
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, photographs and photographic slides by Robert Cushman Murphy. New Zealand Expedition.

Dates: 1947-1948

Peruvian Littoral Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn84
Scope and Contents

Includes a catalog of species, a field journal of Robert Cushman Murphy and a map of the expedition itinerary is found in a separate folder.

Dates: 1919-1920

Photographs of Peruvian Guano Islands from R. C. Murphy files

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn84a
Scope and Contents

One folder of 84 black and white photographs, unknown photographer.

Dates: undated

R. C. Murphy collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn148
Scope and Contents Biographical information, expedition materials, publications, employment and educational records, photographs, Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum materials, newspaper clippings, lectures and talks, bibliographies, manuscripts, field catalog, journals from expeditions in Long Island, Peru, New Zealand, Antarctica, Australia, Bermuda, Caribbean Islands, Venezuela, Bahamas, the Low Country, Pacific coast of Colombia, book on oceanic birds of South America. Murphy petrel manuscript and research...
Dates: circa 1910-1970s

R. C. Murphy San Jose Island collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn96
Scope and Contents

Notes on the birds of San Jose Island by Robert Cushman Murphy; "Talk at San Jose" by Robert Cushman Murphy; "Vegetation of San Jose Island" - C.O. Erlanson, including photographs.

Dates: 1940