Scientific expeditions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:
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Little Tobago, West Indies, Colorado, Canada, the Philippines and Colombia; manuscripts and notes for published and unpublished work; biographical and educational information and honors; press clippings; photographs, negatives and lantern slides; correspondence; newspaper clippings;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
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
[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
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
James P. Chapin collection
Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn221
Scope and Contents
James Chapin's personal and professional correspondence, expedition records including field notes and catalogs, photographs, negatives and personal diaries (1918-1964). Includes collected newsclippings, "Birds of the Belgian Congo" Ph.D. thesis and published works, reel to reel tape recordings with transcriptions, address books, date books, lists of Congo birds, original manuscripts, published reviews, articles, talks, papers, notes. Also includes Biographical information, photographs and...
Dates:
1908-1964
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192