Scientific expeditions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology field correspondence
Collection
Identifier: VPA 14
Scope and Contents
The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology began sending staff into the field as early as the first year of its founding in 1891. Since then, the department has organized and supported decades of seminal field work as it continues to do today.From the field correspondence were written by field workers relaying events during excavations and expeditions. The collection includes department field communications from 1891 to 1969. While Henry Fairfield Osborn was in the department, the...
Dates:
1891-1969
Diaries: [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #15-23
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1907-1948
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Little Tobago, West Indies, Colorado, Canada, the Philippines and Colombia; manuscripts and notes for published and unpublished work; biographical and educational information and honors; press clippings; photographs, negatives and lantern slides; correspondence; newspaper clippings;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
Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors : : YMCA lecture series.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .Y55
Dates:
1917 - 1919
Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors : YMCA lecture series. [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #56
Dates:
1917 - 1919
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
Ted Galusha papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 19
Scope and Contents
Ted Galusha collection contains field correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, stratigraphy, locality, and photographic materials. The notebooks are records of research and field work carried out in the west and southwest, and studies of mammals in Alaska and North America. The materials are housed in 4 subcollections that have repeating box numbers 1 and 2. To distinguish the materials that share that same box numbers, they are arranged by their subcollections written in capital letters...
Dates:
1933-1976
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
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
American Museum of Natural History
Research Library
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