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Photographic Slide Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Distinguishes collections in the Library that are part of the Photographic (Boxed) Slide Collection (PSC) data set.

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Amazon Portrait: Indios e Caboclos exhibition photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 157B
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition Amazon Portrait: Indios e Caboclos, held at the American Museum of Natural History. The exhibition displayed 50 photographs capturing the centuries-old lifestyle of the Amazon's Tapirapé Indians, highlighting the work of Charles Wagley.

Dates: 1993 April 29

Amber: Window to the Past photographic slides of exhibition, 1996-1997.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 50-51
Abstract

Slides of the temporary exhibit Amber: Window to the Past, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1996-1997. The exhibit displayed a re-creation of a 23 to 30 million-year-old Dominican amber forest. Gallery 3. PSC 50 contains images of the exhibit being constructed and installed. PSC 51 contains images from the finished exhibition.

Dates: 1996-1997

American Museum of Natural History Fossil Halls construction photographic slides, circa 1990-1992.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 29
Abstract

Slides from the AMNH Hall of Extinct Mammals and other exhibits in the dinosaur halls under construction.

Dates: circa 1990-1992

American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of Codices

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 15
Scope and Contents

Lienzo of Coixtlahuaca, 36 slides, copy of curator's report enclosed, titled "Report on the 1899 Copy of the Lienzo of Coixtlahuaca II Curated at the American Museum of Natural History" by Arthur A. Joyce, April 1993. Chavero Codex, August 1994, 20 slides.

Dates: circa 1993-1994

American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of the Barosaurus model

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 317
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the Barosaurus mount in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda. Includes images under construction and after construction.

Dates: circa 1990s

American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of the Central Park West entrance, 1998-1999.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 587B
Abstract

Photographs of mostly banners displayed on the Central Park West entrance of the museum. Also includes barosaurus decorations.

Dates: 1998-1999

American Museum of Natural History Portraits and Lab views photographic slides, 1970s-1990s

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 106
Abstract

Portraits of AMNH scientific staff from various departments and views of the labs. Portraits include Niles Eldredge, Peter Möller, Brenda M. Rivera, Diane Bynum, Sidney Horenstein, Nina Root, Jerry Rosen, Richard Tedford, Ross MacPhee, Bill Guch, Barnum Brown, Ray de Lucia, Melanie Stiassny, Radford Arrindell, George Langdon, John Van Couvering, Richard Zwiefel, Marie Lawrence, Laura Freeman, Andy DeSantis, among others.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1970s-1990s

American Museum of Natural History portraits of scientists and lab views photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 617
Scope and Contents

Portraits of AMNH scientific staff from various departments and views of the labs. Includes portraits of Philip Gifford, C. Laivett Smith, Bobb Schafer, Dr. C. Rand, Amy Davidson, Eldridge, Marilyn Fox, and Carlos Rodriguez (Ichthyology graduate student). Also includes several slides of people working on replica of the Stegosaurus skeleton in the Dinosaur Hall, 1973.

Dates: circa 1970s-1990s

American Museum of Natural History special events photographic slides of Kwanzaa and Black History month, 1992, 1993.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 548
Abstract

Photographs taken at the AMNH during the Kwanzaa Celebration on December 29, 1992, and Black History Month, February 1993.

Dates: 1992,1993