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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:

Peru collecting localities

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn82
Scope and Contents

Notes on collecting localities in Peru.

Dates: 1919-1920
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / Peru collecting localities

Peru, Ecuador, Chile Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn83
Scope and Contents

Includes an expense account and a photograph of the camp taken during the Peru, Ecuador, Chile Expedition, 1916.

Dates: 1916
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / Peru, Ecuador, Chile Expedition collection

Peruvian Expedition field catalog

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn85
Scope and Contents

Edmund Heller's field catalog of specimen numbers.

Dates: 1915
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / Peruvian Expedition field catalog

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
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / Peruvian Littoral Expedition collection

Phipps-Bradley Expedition catalog

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn81
Scope and Contents

Catalog of collection of species collected on Phipps-Bradley Expedition

Dates: 1933
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / Phipps-Bradley Expedition catalog

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
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / Photographs of Peruvian Guano Islands from R. C. Murphy files

Pingree I. Osburn collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn259
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, writings, field notes, sale correspondence, newsclippings and maps related to collecting on the USS Albatross expedition to Baja, California and in the Santa Catalina Island.

Dates: 1908-1921
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / Pingree I. Osburn collection

Pyong-Oh Won papers

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn62
Scope and Contents

List of specimens collected by Won in Korea

Dates: 1962-1966
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / Pyong-Oh Won papers

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
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / R. C. Murphy collection

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
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / R. C. Murphy San Jose Island collection
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