Manuscript Collection

Phyllis La Farge research materials on Carl Lumholtz images

Collection

Identifier: Mss .L34

Content Description

Material compiled by Phyllis LaFarge related to her publications on the Carl Lumholtz image collections and a proposed photographic exhibit.

Dates: 2012-2015

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Phyllis La Farge research materials on Carl Lumholtz images

Ramon Reyes Lala lecture notes on the Philippines

Item

Identifier: Mss .L35

Scope and Contents The lecture notes are typewritten on paper cut to size and pasted onto the leaves of a blank 1903 diary or appointment book. Leaves are numbered in pencil in upper right corner, 1 to 69. Text segments are numbered #1 through 196, and are designed to accompany a slide presentation. The first leaf has a handwritten note in pencil, up left margin and across top: The lecture was given throughout the U.S.A. by Dr. Ramon Reyes Lala who was born in Manila, Philippines. Educated in Oxford...

Dates: 1899-1903

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Ramon Reyes Lala lecture notes on the Philippines

George Newbold Lawrence correspondence

Collection

Identifier: Mss .L39

Scope and Contents The George Newbold Lawrence Correspondence collection consists almost completely of handwritten, signed letters received by Lawrence from other ornithologists and naturalists from the United States and Europe discussing the classification of birds and the exchange of bird skins. Some of the folders contain drafts or copies of Lawrence's replies. While there is a small number of official letters from institutions, almost all of the letters are from individuals. In addition to 228 documents...

Dates: 1847-1894; Majority of material found within 1865-1894

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / George Newbold Lawrence correspondence

[Letter] 1865 Jan. 26 : : Boston[Mass., to] W.W. Bailey, Providence[R.I.]

Item

Identifier: Mss .S37

Dates: 1865

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / [Letter] 1865 Jan. 26 : : Boston[Mass., to] W.W. Bailey, Providence[R.I.]

[Letter] : New York [N.Y.], to Francis Nathan

Item

Identifier: Mss .D88

Scope and content

The letter is one handwritten, signed sheet, addressed to "My dear friend Francis.". The subject is personal, accepting Nathan's invitation to visit, and referring to himself as "your friend from the gorilla country." Included with the letter is a fragment, signed by du Chaillu, addressed to "My dear old friend Francis Nathan" and dated Aug. 30, 1900.

Dates: 1896 March 17

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / [Letter] : New York [N.Y.], to Francis Nathan

Letter : Pavie [Pavia, Italy][to S.L. Mitchill, New York, N.Y.].

Collection

Identifier: Mss .R87

Dates: 1820 Nov. 4 :

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Letter : Pavie [Pavia, Italy][to S.L. Mitchill, New York, N.Y.].

Letters : : Berlin, 1888 Sept. 9, 1904 June 20.

Collection

Identifier: Mss .S354

Dates: 1888 - 1904

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Letters : : Berlin, 1888 Sept. 9, 1904 June 20.

Letters : Rhyl, Wales, to J. Van Voorst [London] [1866] Sept. 22, 1866 Oct. 4.

Collection

Identifier: Mss .C53

Scope and content The collection consists of two handwritten signed letters discussing the Record of zoological literature, begun the previous year and published by Van Voorst. Clark had ordered a copy of vol. 2 (1865). In the first letter, Clark commiserates with Van Voorst on the difficulties of finding subscribers for a new annual publication. Clark suggests that Van Voorst sell the work in parts, to attract buyers interested only in a particular subject or unwilling to pay for the complete contents. In...

Dates: 1866 - 1866

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Letters : Rhyl, Wales, to J. Van Voorst [London] [1866] Sept. 22, 1866 Oct. 4.

Letters : : Rue des Petits-Augustins [Paris], 1798 Apr. 23, 1798 May 15, 1798 July 18.

Collection

Identifier: Mss .L33

Dates: 1798 - 1798

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Letters : : Rue des Petits-Augustins [Paris], 1798 Apr. 23, 1798 May 15, 1798 July 18.

Lillian Delger Powers collection, 1913-1930

Collection

Identifier: Mss .P69

Abstract

Extensive diaries of squirrel behavior, correspondence, newspaper clippings, lists of squirrel names, illustrations (pencil, ink, and water color), photographs and large color poster for her film "A Whirl Through Squirrelville".

Dates: Majority of material found within ( 1915-1925).

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Lillian Delger Powers collection, 1913-1930

Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:

Phyllis La Farge research materials on Carl Lumholtz images

Ramon Reyes Lala lecture notes on the Philippines

George Newbold Lawrence correspondence

[Letter] 1865 Jan. 26 : : Boston[Mass., to] W.W. Bailey, Providence[R.I.]

[Letter] : New York [N.Y.], to Francis Nathan

Letter : Pavie [Pavia, Italy][to S.L. Mitchill, New York, N.Y.].

Letters : : Berlin, 1888 Sept. 9, 1904 June 20.

Letters : Rhyl, Wales, to J. Van Voorst [London] [1866] Sept. 22, 1866 Oct. 4.

Letters : : Rue des Petits-Augustins [Paris], 1798 Apr. 23, 1798 May 15, 1798 July 18.

Lillian Delger Powers collection, 1913-1930

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