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Scientific expeditions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Diaries, bulk: 1907-1948

 Series
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #15-23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Microfilm copies of archives and manuscripts from central archives and other Science departments.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1907-1948
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Archives Microfilm #1-227, Archives and Manuscripts microfilm

E. Thomas Gilliard collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn190
Scope and Contents Expedition records including equipment lists, field notes, catalogs and journals for travel in New Guinea, British Guiana, New Britain, Venezuela, Nepal, Little Tobago, West Indies, Colorado, Canada, the Philippines and Colombia; manuscripts and notes for published and unpublished work; biographical and educational information and honors; press clippings; photographs, negatives and lantern slides; correspondence; newspaper clippings; personal papers; 8 volumes; bird lists; lecture notes;...
Dates: 1936-circa 1970s
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / E. Thomas Gilliard collection

Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors : : YMCA lecture series.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .Y55
Dates: 1917 - 1919
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors : : YMCA lecture series.

Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors : YMCA lecture series. [microform], 1917 - 1919

 Series
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #56
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Microfilm copies of archives and manuscripts from central archives and other Science departments.

Dates: 1917 - 1919
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Archives Microfilm #1-227, Archives and Manuscripts microfilm

Export and production files, 2009

 Series
Identifier: MA.2021.003.02
Scope and Contents The 2009 Archive contains material relative to the production of the following film projects: An Extreme Toast...to Extreme Mammals / Extreme Mammals at AMNH-Sugar Gliders / AMNH Partners With National Park Service / Directing 'Journey to the Stars' / Finding Leeches in Rwanda / [John Flynn expedition to Peru] / Rare Spider Silk on Exhibit at AMNH / [Museum Facade-77th Street] / Sleepover - b roll / Feeding the Frogs / Live Butterflies Celebrate 12th Year at AMNH / The Butterfly...
Dates: 2009
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / MA.2021.003, Digital Media Production Records, Department of Communications-Editorial

Eugene S. Gaffney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 133
Dates: 1893-2024
Found in: Vertebrate Paleontology Archives / Eugene S. Gaffney Papers

George K. Cherrie collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn150
Scope and Contents

Field notes and catalogs from expeditionary work in Costa Rica, Haiti, the United States, Trinidad, India, the Himalayas and Turkestan, and most prominently in locations across South America, including the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition, correspondence, itemized packing lists, clippings

Dates: 1894-1925
Found in: Department of Ornithology Archives / George K. Cherrie collection

[Glacier Bay] / LR "van Dyck"

 Item — Box RF-108-F, item: 1
Identifier: Art Survey No. 587
Scope and Contents

Painting depicts glacier, small boat on lower left, and mountain. Frame: black painted wood, matted.

Dates: circa 1900-1950
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / [Glacier Bay] / LR "van Dyck"

Edmund Heller diary

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .H45
Scope and Contents The diary is dated from October 9, 1917 to January 12, 1918, with undated addenda and address lists. It contains Heller’s personal reflections and daily activities on his solo return trip from the First Asiatic Zoological Expedition. He discusses the sites and architecture, the flora and weather, as well as the culture and his impressions of the people of each country. He writes of goods for sale, with a particular interest in lantern slides and fur-skinned merchandise. Many of his...
Dates: October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Edmund Heller diary

Hills South of Papeete, Tahiti.

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 433
Dates: 1937
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Hills South of Papeete, Tahiti.
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