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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 198 Collections and/or Records:

J. Stuart Rowley collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn93
Scope and Contents

List of birds, correspondence, map of localities

Dates: 1960s

J. Stuart Rowley Mexican bird collections

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn90
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and notes.

Dates: 1961-1967

J. T. Nichols collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn76
Scope and Contents

Bibliography, photocopied journals (volumes 1 through 28)

Dates: 1904-1958

James C. Greenway, Jr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn127
Scope and Contents

Card files on endangered species and extinct species, correspondence and clippings relating to card files, AMNH type specimens for land birds - New World and land birds - Old World and water birds - New and Old World

Dates: 1940s-1960s

James P. Chapin African bibliography

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn14
Scope and Contents

Files on James Paul Chapin's bibliography on Africa. Titles referenced in the files are from the 18th through 20th centuries.

Dates: 1930s-1950s

James P. Chapin collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn47
Scope and Contents

Collection of Christmas cards from and to James Paul Chapin, watercolors, drawings, "colophons" (referenced as colophons but are actually hand drawn illustrations and considered a device), bookplates, cartoons, envelopes with Chapin illustrations. Subject matter mostly birds, also images of fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and plants. Includes watercolors done by Chapin for the American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915).

Dates: 1900 -1960s, undated

James P. Chapin collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn221
Scope and Contents James Chapin's personal and professional correspondence, expedition records including field notes and catalogs, photographs, negatives and personal diaries (1918-1964). Includes collected newsclippings, "Birds of the Belgian Congo" Ph.D. thesis and published works, reel to reel tape recordings with transcriptions, address books, date books, lists of Congo birds, original manuscripts, published reviews, articles, talks, papers, notes. Also includes Biographical information, photographs and...
Dates: 1908-1964

James P. Chapin Congo bibliography

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn15
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of James Paul Chapin's bibliography files on the Democratic Republic of Congo. One drawer contains files on books solely about Kivu, a region of the Congo. Titles referenced in the files are from the 20th century.

Dates: 1930s-1950s

James P. Chapin general file

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn13
Scope and Contents

James Paul Chapin's file on various subjects, including birds, aviculture, fossils, botanicals, insects, spiders, and many more.

Dates: 1930s-1950s

James P. Chapin species file

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Identifier: Archives Orn12
Scope and Contents James Paul Chapin's files on various bird species, contained in eleven file drawers. Drawer 1 is labeled "Ratites-Accipitridae (part)." Drawer 2 is labeled "Falconidae-Rallidae." Drawer 3 is labeled "Heliornithidae-Cuculidae (part)." Drawer 4 is labeled "Cuculidae (part)-Strigidae." Drawer 5 is labeled "Tytonidae-Eurylaemidae." Drawer 6 is labeled "Pittidae-Sylviidae (part)." Drawer 7 is labeled "Sylviidae (part)-Turdidae (part)." Drawer 8 is labeled "Turdidae (part)-Hirundinidae." Drawer 9...
Dates: circa 1930s-1950s