Manuscript Collection
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Distinguishes collections in the Library that are part of the Manuscript (Mss) data set.
Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:
T. Donald Carter papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C375
Scope and Contents
The Papers Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, articles and reviews, clippings and photocopies relating to Carter's collecting activities for the American Museum of Natural History, and to his interests in the classification of mammals and birds, and bird banding. Correspondence consists primarily of typewritten letters and carbon copies, with some handwritten letters, both sent and received. The collection includes two handwritten signed letters from Ugo Mochi, principal...
Dates:
1916-1971
Central Asia, northern China and the Nan Shan : account of the journeys of V.A. Obruchev, mining engineer, carried out under the direction of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society in 1892-94
Collection
Identifier: Mss .O27
Central Asiatic Expeditions records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents
This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates:
1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933
Centurie de lépidoptères de l'île de Cuba : : contenant la description et les figures coloriées de cent espèces de papillons nouveaux ou peu connus ; représentés d'après nature, souvent avec la chenille, la chrysalide, et plusieurs détails microscopiques. Décade 1 / / par Ph. Poey.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .P64
Dates:
1923
Found in:
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
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Centurie de lépidoptères de l'île de Cuba : : contenant la description et les figures coloriées de cent espèces de papillons nouveaux ou peu connus ; représentés d'après nature, souvent avec la chenille, la chrysalide, et plusieurs détails microscopiques. Décade 1 / / par Ph. Poey.
Charles Bonnet correspondence and prints, 1772
Collection
Identifier: Mss .B66
Scope and Contents
One handwritten letter in French, three copperplate engraving prints of Charles Bonnet.
Dates:
1772
Charles Robert Knight biographies, before 1988.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .K57
Abstract
Photocopies of manuscripts (typed). Includes "Autobiography of an Artist" by Charles Knight, two copies, unpublished, 160 pages; "Toppy and Me" by Rhoda Steel Kalt, 129 pages; "Nonnie and Toppy: An Affectionate Memoir" by Rhoda Knight Kalt with some handwritten notes.
Dates:
1988
Clark Wissler papers, 1942-1943.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .W57
Abstract
Survey of the American Museum of Natural History, typescript carbon, incomplete. Also include original notes and typed drafts.
Dates:
1942 - 1943
Collection of press clippings about Minik Wallace, 1894-1989
Collection
Identifier: Mss .W3555
Abstract
Photocopies of news clippings assembled by Dr. Rolf Gilberg in preparation for his book Mennesket Minik (1888-1919): En gronlaenders liv mellam 2 verdenar, published in 1988.
Dates:
Majority of material found within ( 1897-1909).
Columbia Broadcast System, Inc. Adventure Series papers, 1953-1956.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C377
Abstract
Adventure Series scripts and press releases.
Dates:
1953 - 1956