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Kellogg, Peter Paul, 1899-. Peter Paul Kellogg papers, 1934-1964.

Title: Peter Paul Kellogg papers, 1934-1964.

Correspondence, reports, manuscripts of articles, photographs, clippings, notes, memoranda, and printed material relating to Kellogg's career in the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University; the history of the Laboratory; the Albert R. Brand Bird Song Foundation; ornithological expeditions to central Africa, Manitoba, and elsewhere; and bird clubs. Much of the correspondence is with other ornithologists, education and conservation groups, departments, institutions, record companies, film producers, and manufacturers of technical equipment concerning the procedures and problems of taping bird calls; correspondents include Arthur A. Allen, Albert R. Brand, Myles E. W. North, Paul Schwartz, Lyman K. Stuart, Gustav A. Swanson, and various members of the Laboratory. Also, 245 phonograph records of bird songs, some with handbooks; five recordings made at Professor Allen's retirement party (1950); and handwritten notes (22 pages, 1961) made by Professor Kellogg's wife, Byrl Jorgenson Kellogg, keying recordings in the Cornell Library of Natural Sounds to references made by Louis Agassiz Fuertes in six papers on tropical bird songs published (1913-1914) in BIRD LORE.

ArchivalResource: 13 cubic ft.

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Hanselman, David Lee, 1935-. David Lee Hanselman tape recording, 1954-1957.

Title: David Lee Hanselman tape recording, 1954-1957.

Recording of "Symphony of the Birds," an 11-minute tape of bird songs recorded and produced in 1955 and 1956 by Peter Paul Kellogg and Jim Facett, who hosted a CBS radio symphony orchestra program, at the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology. Also, a recording of Arthur Augustus Allen talking about the humming-bird; and taped excerpts of a show David L. Hanselman produced for the Farm and Home Radio Show, Christmas 1957. Included in this show is a 1954 recording of Bristow Adams telling the story of the Christmas bells.

ArchivalResource: 1 tape recording.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64073123 View

Spofford, Sally Hoyt. Sally Hoyt Spofford papers, 1923-1982.

Title: Sally Hoyt Spofford papers, 1923-1982.

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and memoranda pertaining to the administration of the Laboratory of Ornithology and her other interests in ornithology; rough drafts of Arthur A. Allen correspondence and writings; Edna Lane's Bird and Flying Squirrel field notes; Christmas newsletters with photographs from Peter Paul Kellogg; and J. Southgate Hoyt field notes, manuscripts, drawings, a draft of his Ph.D. thesis, and photographs, primarily relating to the pileated woodpecker.

ArchivalResource: 2.3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63934259 View

Brand, Albert Rich. Albert Rich Brand papers, 1928-1940.

Title: Albert Rich Brand papers, 1928-1940.

Brand's correspondence (1928-40) with Arthur A. Allen, Peter Paul Kellogg, Herbert Sanborn of Vanderbilt University, Dr. Frank E. Lutz, curator of the Museum, and others, mainly concerning his pioneering work recording the songs and calls of American wild birds and his ornithological writing; drafts and reprints of his articles and speeches (1930-38); typescript notes (1930-39) titled "Bird Diaries" and "Bird Hearing Experiment"; typescripts and photographs (one bound volume) describing the Cornell-American Museum of Natural History Ornithological Expedition of 1935, as well as letters from Allen and Kellogg to Brand during and after the expedition; correspondence of Herbert J. Seligmann with Brand's widow, Ernestine I. Brand, and others concerning his proposed biography of Brand and drafts of the first four chapters of this book; other biographical data, including a scrapbook of clippings concerning Brand; photographs, correspondence, and printed items concerning ornithological meetings; and lists of his publications. Includes a leather-bound book entitled "Hunting with a Mike" that was issued in 1935 to the members of the Cornell sound expedition, with a photographic and text account of the trip. Also, thesis, Recording Bird Songs, 1932.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic ft., 48 phonograph records.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63934236 View

Federation of New York State Bird Clubs records, 1946-2001.

Title: Federation of New York State Bird Clubs records, 1946-2001.

Materials relating to the organization's history and ongoing business, including minutes of meetings, membership rosters, announcements, and programs of annual meetings, photographs, news clippings, correspondence and special projects such as the New York State Avian Records Committee, and the New York State Bird Book Committee.

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Stuart, Lyman K. Lyman K. Stuart papers, 1952-1961.

Title: Lyman K. Stuart papers, 1952-1961.

Correspondence primarily with Arthur A. Allen relating to Stuart's interest in ornithology, especially bird photography, including letters relating to the Life Magazine photo-essay contest; correspondence with Allen, Gustav Swanson, and others relating to the Laboratory of Ornithology Council, to Lab operations, funding, and publishing projects; Council minutes; and correspondence with Peter Paul Kellogg about bird recordings published by the Lab.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428824964 View

Stillwell, Jerry E., d. 1959. Jerry E. and Norma J. Stillwell papers, 1948-1964.

Title: Jerry E. and Norma J. Stillwell papers, 1948-1964.

Letters, diaries, and notes concerning the recording of bird calls, begun after Jerry Stillwell's retirement (1948) as a technical editor for the American Petroleum Institute in Dallas, Texas, including extensive correspondence with Peter Paul Kellogg and William Fish, both of the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology, which later resulted in their records, "Bird Songs of Door Yard, Field, and Forest" (three albums); manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence relating to the publication of their articles in NATURE and other naturalists' magazines, and Norma Stillwell's book BIRD SONGS: THE ADVENTURE AND TECHNIQUES IN RECORDING THE SONGS OF AMERICAN BIRDS (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1964); notebooks (some supplemented by snapshots) and journals of numerous field trips to the Ozarks, Carson National Forest, New Mexico, and other places around the country, particularly in the Midwest and Southwest, which contain observations on birds, trees, and wildflowers; also included are newspaper clippings and other printed material on ornithology and bioacoustics.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63934125 View

Little, Randolph S., 1940-. Randolph S. Little papers, 1955-1966.

Title: Randolph S. Little papers, 1955-1966.

Correspondence with Peter Paul Kellogg, Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr., and research associates in the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology; notes and records of ornithological expenditions; and observation records of birds in the Ithaca, New York, area.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63934233 View

New York State Ornithological Association. New York State Ornithological Association records, 1946-2011.

Title: New York State Ornithological Association records, 1946-2011.

Materials relating to the organization's history and ongoing business, including minutes of meetings, membership rosters, announcements, and programs of annual meetings, photographs, news clippings, "New York Birders" from 1971, "The Kingbird" from 1950, correspondence and special projects such as the New York State Avian Records Committee, and the New York State Bird Book Committee. The bulk of the material was collected by Federation co-founder Dr. Gordon Meade, until his death in 1990, with correspondence of Dr. Foster Gambrell contributed by Charles A. Rouse of the Eaton Birding Society. Material collected by Mary Ann Sunderlin, who held numerous executive positions in the Federation: Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary, and Vice President, was donated to the Federation after her death in 1992. The complete set of "New York Birders," 1871-1993 was collected by Stanley Lincoln, President of the Federation from 1991-1993. Publications include A Summary of the Hamlin Beach Lakewatch fall and winter waterbird migration data, 1993-1999 by Brett Ewald and Dominic F. Sherony, 2001; Bull's Birds of New York State, Emanuel Levine, revised edition, 1998; the Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State, edited by Robert F. Andrle and Janet R. Carroll, 1988; and Checklists of the Birds of New York State, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1999 (2 copies).

ArchivalResource: 5.9 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63540958 View

Sally Hoyt Spofford Papers, 1923-1982

Title: Sally Hoyt Spofford Papers, 1923-1982

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and memoranda pertaining to the administration of the Laboratory of Ornithology and her other interests in ornithology; rough drafts of Arthur A. Allen correspondence and writings; Edna Lane's Bird and Flying Squirrel field notes; Christmas newsletters with photographs from Peter Paul Kellogg; and J. Southgate Hoyt field notes, manuscripts, drawings, a draft of his Ph.D. thesis, and photographs, primarily relating to the pileated woodpecker.

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Griscom, Ludlow, 1890-1959. Ludlow Griscom papers, 1922-1961.

Title: Ludlow Griscom papers, 1922-1961.

Correspondence concerning activities at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University; letters of contemporary ornithologists, in cluding Arthur A. Allen, Peter Paul Kellogg, Roger Tory Peterson, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes; requests for books published by the museum; and bird identification questions from professional and amateur ornithologists. Also, personal letters from family and friends; correspondence and related material concerning the American Defense Program at Harvard, which Griscom directed, 1940-1945; correspondence, financial statements, minutes, annual reports, and bulletins of UNESCO (1948-1950); the Massachusetts Audubon Society (1938-1959); Massachusetts Department of Conservation, Division of Fisheries and Game (1947-1949); National Audubon Society (1932-1958); American Ornithologists' Union (1922-1957); and the Boston Society of Natural History (1937-1954). Also includes material concerning the Mount Washington Observatory, the Children's Museum, and conservation topics. Also included are field notes, reports, biographical information about Griscom, and articles and papers by Griscom and other ornithologists.

ArchivalResource: 11 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64071759 View

Ludlow Griscom papers, 1922-1961.

Title: Ludlow Griscom papers, 1922-1961.

Correspondence concerning activities at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, as well as field notes, reports, and biographical information about Griscom.

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