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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:

Type card file for published lists on bird families

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn11
Scope and Contents

Cards containing information on 19th and 20th-century published titles about various bird families. The publications referenced here are by the American Museum of Natural History as well as outside authors.

Dates: circa mid to late 20th century

Uruguay Expedition list of birds

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn115
Scope and Contents

List of birds received from Mammology, September 1963

Dates: 1959-1963

Various art collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn52
Scope and Contents

Pen and ink drawings, watercolors, and paintings by various artists. Includes an inventory of the collection.

Dates: 19th-20th c.

Venezuela Expedition colleciton

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn118
Scope and Contents

Description of localities by M.A. Carriker, Jr., one journal article

Dates: 1910-1911, 1989

Vernay-Cutting Burma Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn120
Scope and Contents

Register of birds, notes by E. Mayr for manuscript

Dates: 1938-1940

Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn119
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes by E. Mayr

Dates: 1935-1938

W. B. Richardson collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn87
Scope and Contents

Manuscript of Richardson's work, letters, lists of specimens, narrative relating to colleciton activities of Richardson for AMNH, BMNH, and MCZ

Dates: 1868-1927, 2009

Waldron De Witt Miller collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn145
Scope and Contents

Field notes from Nicaragua including photographs, many handwritten research notes and manuscripts including work on findings of Nicaraguan birds. Journals and notes on birds in the nearby vicinity of Plainfield, New Jersey and East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Also includes a copperplate of woodpeckers.

Dates: 1890s-1920s

Walter Bock field catalog

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn210
Scope and Contents

Field notes and field note cards on birds.

Dates: 1953-1955

Watkins collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn122
Scope and Contents

One box correspondence, reports on collecting locales, lists of skins, keys to photos, and account sheets. Remaining enclosures contain numbered prints from South American travels mounted on board, including 15 mounted panoramic prints.

Dates: 1916-1920s