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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:

Lee Garnett Day Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn136
Scope and Contents

Bird field catalog compiled by collectors G.H.H. Tate and T.D. Carter, correspondence

Dates: 1927-1928

Legendre Indo-China Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn137
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence.

Dates: 1931-1932, 1971

Leo E. Miller collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn144
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, field notes, memoranda related to expeditions to South America largely with F.M. Chapman, includes maps and photo of Miller.

Dates: 1911-1916, 1988

Leonard C. Sanford collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn97
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from BMNH Archives between Sanford, Rothschild, Stresemann, Mayr, Stein, Frost, and Dammerman concerning joint projects in New Guinea

Dates: 1927-1931

Lester L. Short collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn104
Scope and Contents

Journals, specimen catalogs, field observations, original labels from sprit specimens, field notes from United States: Central NY, Maine, Maryland, Kansas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Florida, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Louisiana, Georgia. Mexico, Argentina, Africa, Okinawa Japan, Malaya, India, West Indies,

Dates: circa 1940s-1987

Lester L. Short papers

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn4
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence pertaining to society meetings of the Pan-African Ornithological Congress, International Council for Bird Preservation, International Ornithological Congress, etc. Also includes hand drawn maps, photographs, field notes, negatives, field notes of St Catherines Island, Georgia (1981-82) department notes.

Dates: 1960s-1980s

Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff collection catalog

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn64
Scope and Contents

18-volume catalog of a collection of birds given to the AMNH by Woodruff. Also includes an index.

Dates: 1885-1908

Liberia Expeditions collections

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn254
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, Specimen lists, notes, Catalog of Specimens, reports on 1988 and 1990 expeditions, including American Museum of Natural History Ornithological-Biogeographical Expoloration of the Wonegizi Mountains, Lofa County, Liberia March 1990.

Dates: 1985-1990

Louis Agassiz Fuertes art collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn51
Scope and Contents

Pen and ink on paper, drawings, humorous drawings, wash drawings, watercolors, oil paintings photographs

Dates: 1911-1950s

Louis Agassiz Fuertes art collection card index and access photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn10
Scope and Contents

This is a card catalog of Louis Aggassiz Fuertes' art collection, including photographs of his paintings of birds, mammals, reptiles, and botanicals.

Dates: 1950s-1980s