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Scientific expeditions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

[Study for Black Bear Group]

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 498
Scope and Contents

Swamp in foreground and trees, coconut trees in background, sky visible above and through the trees.

Dates: circa 1930s

The scientific expedition to the South Pacific in the yacht Zaca

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 160
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition, 1934-1935. On this expedition in his yacht, the Zaca, Templeton Crocker was accompanied by AMNH staff members James Paul Chapin, leader and ornithologist, Harry L. Shapiro, anthropologist, and Francis Lee Jacques, preparator and artist, all of whom appear in the film. Other expedition staff members included Toshio Asaeda, artist and photographer, Arthur Pedersen, ship's captain, and George Lyman, ship's surgeon. The expedition's...
Dates: 1934-1935

Theodore Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn89
Scope and Contents

Photographs, correspondence and George K. Cherrie's field notes on "River of Doubt" Expedition. Also includes press releases and clippings, and three books related to Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazillian Wilderness, 1925.

Dates: 1913-1916

William Partridge collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn79
Scope and Contents

Notes, maps, lists of specimens, correspondence, and notecards relating to the 1961 Partridge, Humphrey, and Parkes Expedition to northeastern Argentina

Dates: circa 1950s-1960s

Yellowstone Expedition records

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn65
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and memorandum created during AMNH expedition to Yellowstone.

Dates: 1873-1975