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Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981 (inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981(inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Editorial correspondence of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house ofBoston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 174 boxes (44 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00119/catalog View

Whaling collection exhibition photographs, 1919-1926.

Title: Whaling collection exhibition photographs, 1919-1926.

Photographs documenting the whaling exhibition include views of a "jaggin wheel" made of sperm whale ivory with Robert Cushman Murphy illustrating its use to decorate pie crusts; scrimshaw (etched sperm whale teeth) and jaggin wheels; and "hogyokes" or Davis quadrants, an early type of navigating instruments. Some photographs were taken by Robert Cushman Murphy and Julius Kirchner. Others were lent to Murphy by Frank Wood. Photographs are identified.

ArchivalResource: 38 photonegatives : b&w.2 photonegatives : b&w nitrate.15 photonegatives : b&w glass.22 photoprints : b&w mounted on file cards.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155517199 View

James Paul Chapin correspondence, 1953

Title: James Paul Chapin correspondence, 1953

The collection consists of letters, handwritten and typewritten, to and from Chapin, mostly concerning his upcoming trip and work.

ArchivalResource: 48 items (.25 linear ft.)

https://data.library.amnh.org/archives/repositories/3/resources/8430 View

Field photographs, 1912-1913.

Title: Field photographs, 1912-1913.

Photographs documenting Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy's Antarctic field work. Views of the DAISY at sea, whaling, oceanic birds including penguins and petrals, some of which were mounted at the Brooklyn Museum. Also views of mammals and landforms including Grace Glacier (named after Mrs. Murphy). Photographs were taken by Robert Cushman Murphy. Copy photographs by Robert Elwood Logan.

ArchivalResource: 374 photonegatives : b&w glass.53 photonegatives : b&w.10 photoprints : b&w.1 album (488 photoprints) : b&w.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155517170 View

Papers, [ca.1895-1965], ca.1895-ca.1965 (bulk)

Title: Papers, [ca.1895-1965], ca.1895-ca.1965 (bulk)

Correspondence, typescripts, photographs, negatives, notebooks, journals, book reviews and slides concerning the worldwide travels and natural history studies of a Long Island (N.Y.) naturalist.

ArchivalResource: 3.35 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156794758 View

Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973. Letters, 1964-1971, n.d., to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1964-1971, n.d., to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 17 items (30 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155873220 View

Field photographs, 1924-1925.

Title: Field photographs, 1924-1925.

Photographs documenting Dr. Robert C. Murphy's field work in Peru and Ecuador with his wife. Collection includes views of birds and habitats, local inhabitants, and thier land and lifestyles. Additional locations include Chile, Panama, and Colombia. Photographs were taken by Grace E. Barstow Murphy, Julius Kirchner, and Van Campen Heilner. Copy photographs by Julius Kirchner. Photographs are identified.

ArchivalResource: 2 albums (647 photoprints)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155516045 View

William King Gregory papers, 1889-1948 (bulk 1906-1948)

Title: William King Gregory papers, 1889-1948 (bulk 1906-1948)

The collection consists of administrative, scientific, academic and personal papers, and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 86 boxes (41.25 linear feet)

https://data.library.amnh.org/archives/repositories/3/resources/8450 View

Oceania field photographs, 1921-1940.

Title: Oceania field photographs, 1921-1940.

Photographs documenting the Whitney South Seas Expedition depict a wide range of subjects including animals, people, and landscapes. Locations include Oceania, Galapagos Islands, Marquesas Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and New Hebrides. The photographs were taken by Beck, George E. Petersen, Hamlin, Jose G. Correia, and Robert C. Murphy. Photographs are identified. Also included are maps showing expedition locations.

ArchivalResource: 2427 photonegatives : b&w glass.873 photonegatives : b&w nitrate.1 photonegative : b&w.1929 photoprints : b&w mounted on file cards.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155516917 View

Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973. Papers, ca. 1907-1973.

Title: Papers, ca. 1907-1973.

This collection contains primarily correspondence, but includes articles and addresses by Murphy as well as scrapbooks, photographs, and other miscellaneous volumes documenting his career. From his earliest travels to South American and the Antarctic regions in 1912, until his Australia voyage in 1971, Murphy continually explored animal and bird life as a scientist, and also as a concerned citizen who became one of the earliest advocates of conservation and ecology.

ArchivalResource: ca. 13,000 items (19 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154298084 View

Photograph collection, ca.1840-1990.

Title: Photograph collection, ca.1840-1990.

Photographs in all formats from the beginnings of photography to the present day, including dauerreotypes, ambrotypes, albumen and gelatin prints, lantern slides, cartes de visit, glass plate negatives, postcards, color transparencies and snapshots. Photographs documtent or provide supplementary information about the artifacts and works of art in the collections of the Museums at Stony Brook; document the local history of the Stony Brook area, of Suffolk County and of Long Island in general; or provide examples of original historic photographic materials that relate to the interpretation of the Art and History Collections at the Museums.

ArchivalResource: ca. 40 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155567393 View

Field photographs, 1937.

Title: Field photographs, 1937.

Photographs documenting Robert Cushman's field work and travels along the South American Coast, including shoreline views and birds, coastal maps, and illustrations. This expedition is considered a reconnaissance expedition of the Askoy Expedition, 1941. Copy photographs were taken by Thane L. Bierwert and Julius Kirchner.

ArchivalResource: 1 photonegative : b&w glass.6 photonegatives : b&w copy.401 photonegatives : b&w nitrate.50 photonegatives : b&w.1 album (442 photoprints) : b&w mounted.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155517101 View

Field photographs, 1949.

Title: Field photographs, 1949.

Photographs documenting Dr. Murphy's work in Pyramid Valley Swamp where 64 Moa skeletons were extracted in March 1949, 15 of which came to the American Museum of Natural History. Photographs show the excavation work, the land, and bird life. Photographs were taken by Murphy. Copy photographs by Leon Boltin.

ArchivalResource: 689 photonegatives : b&w.1 album (692 photoprints) : b&w mounted.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155517150 View

Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973. Journals, 1907-1971.

Title: Journals, 1907-1971.

This collection contains the diaries, journals, and observations of a naturalist, generously illustrated with newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, sketches, maps, and charts. The contents are as follows:

ArchivalResource: 42 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122409252 View

Wilson, Percy, 1879-1944. Percy Wilson records 1908-1940.

Title: Percy Wilson records 1908-1940.

Collection documents Wilson's career with the New York Botanical Garden as personal assistant to Nathaniel Lord Britton and his floristic studies of the Caribbean.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (2.5 lin. in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43335661 View

Tinbergen, Lukas, 1915-1955. Vogels onderweg / L. Tinbergen ; [English resume made under the supervision of Robert Cushman Murphy by Constance Sherman].

Title: Vogels onderweg / L. Tinbergen ; [English resume made under the supervision of Robert Cushman Murphy by Constance Sherman]. 1950.

ArchivalResource: 30 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57244810 View

William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

ArchivalResource:

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM06776.html View

Photographs, 1898-1970.

Title: Photographs, 1898-1970.

Photographs from the life travels of Robert Cushman Murphy (1887-1923) excluding the seven larger expeditions with took place from 1910 to 1970. Views primarily of birds, but also of lands, peoples, and animals. Includes field work with others including Jesse Metcalf, Henry Craig, Fleming, Arthur S. Vernay, and William H. Phelps in North and South America (guano industry), Europe, Ireland, and Africa. Personal collection of photographs includes images loaned by the United States Fish Commission and others. Many bird illustrations by Francis Lee Jaques, many family portraits, maps, and illustrations. Some undated images are grouped by geographic location for accessibility.

ArchivalResource: 4,762 photonegatives : b&w.284 photonegatives : b&w nitrate.582 photoprints : b&w.115 photoprints : b&w mounted on file cards.7 albums (5,123 photoprints) : b&w.1,116 transparencies : col. ; 35 mm.Photonegatives : glass.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155517914 View

Wilson, Percy, 1879-1944. Percy Wilson records, 1908-1940.

Title: Percy Wilson records, 1908-1940.

Collection documents Wilson's career with the New York Botanical Garden as personal assistant to Nathaniel Lord Britton and his floristic studies of the Caribbean.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (2.5 lin. in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155483699 View

Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946. Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors [microform] : YMCA lecture series.

Title: Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors [microform] : YMCA lecture series. 1918-1919.

ArchivalResource: 1 box ; 32 x 27 x 7 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41120567 View

Special Films Collection: Expedition films, 1912-1960.

Title: Special Films Collection: Expedition films, 1912-1960.

Films recording expeditions, the vast majority of which were sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. Some expeditions which collected scientific data and specimens, especially for Museum exhibitions, had a broad range of activities. Their films are multidisciplinary. Other films are more particular in their purpose and are ethnographic, zoological, archaeological, or paleontological. Many films were taken on expeditions to Africa, others portray Asia, Latin America, the Arctic, the Antarctic, Australia, and the Pacific Islands; a few portray Indians in North America. And Osa Johnson emphasizing African mammals.

ArchivalResource: 71 films.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155513691 View

Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession, 1920-1947 (bulk 1934-1944)

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession, 1920-1947 (bulk 1934-1944)

The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

https://data.library.amnh.org/archives/repositories/3/resources/115 View

Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946. Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors : YMCA lecture series.

Title: Exploration tales for soldiers and sailors : YMCA lecture series. 1918-1919.

ArchivalResource: 1 box ; 32 x 27 x 7 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20752054 View

Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973. The avian order Tubinares, with special reference to the adaptive radiation of function.

Title: The avian order Tubinares, with special reference to the adaptive radiation of function. 1918.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56151486 View

Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973. Life of Alfred Newton, by A.F.R. Wollaston ... : reviewed / by Robert Cushman Murphy.

Title: Life of Alfred Newton, by A.F.R. Wollaston ... : reviewed / by Robert Cushman Murphy. [1922].

ArchivalResource: 8 leaves ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62494003 View

Brooklyn Museum. Office of the Director. William Henry Fox records, 1913-33 (bulk), 1908-35 (inclusive).

Title: William Henry Fox records, 1913-33 (bulk), 1908-35 (inclusive).

ArchivalResource: 15.25 linear ft. plus.1.25 linear ft. oversize materials plus..5 linear ft photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122566549 View

Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973. Letter.

Title: Letter. 1947.

T.L.S. (1947 July 30) with manuscript postscript to Zabriskie concerning an exhibition on letterhead of The American Museum of Natural History.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10406612 View

Historical papers, 1924-1973.

Title: Historical papers, 1924-1973.

Miscellaneous items pertaining to Long Island history, including material about Nathan Hale and the Long Island spy ring during the Revolution; and clippings, an obituary, and a letter from naturalist Robert Cushman Murphy.

ArchivalResource: ca. 10 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155562733 View

O'Reilly, John. Deep sea birder / by John O'Reilly.

Title: Deep sea birder / by John O'Reilly. [1940]

ArchivalResource: p. 157-160 : ill., port. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39037003 View

Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973. Letter, 1947, April 1, New York, to [Philip D.] Sherman.

Title: Letter, 1947, April 1, New York, to [Philip D.] Sherman.

Appreciates Sherman's kind remarks about his book, Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy, 1912-1913.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615551 View

Escobar, Paulo Emilio. Bahías de Málaga y Buenaventura / por Paulo Emilio Escobar ; summarized by R.C. Murphy.

Title: Bahías de Málaga y Buenaventura / por Paulo Emilio Escobar ; summarized by R.C. Murphy. [1945?]

ArchivalResource: 15 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54799784 View

Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973. Collection, 1913-1973 (bulk 1930-1973).

Title: Collection, 1913-1973 (bulk 1930-1973).

The collection consists of five folders of material collected by the AMNH Office of Public Affairs, including articles by and about Murphy, newspaper clippings, press releases, obituaries and awards.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56669796 View

Papers, 1912-1972, 1912-1920 (bulk)

Title: Papers, 1912-1972, 1912-1920 (bulk)

Typescript of illustrated lecture on whaling by Murphy for the New England Society, 1918; typescript of abbreviated log of the brig Daisy in 1904 and letter from George Drinkwater about his father's manuscript, 1972; discharge papers of seamen Robert Cushman Murphy, John Alves, and Edwin Reed, 1912-1913; oath of Master on death of William Elwin, 1913; certificates of shipment of seamen to be added to crews at various Caribbean islands, 1912, 1913; 54 photographs of whaling voyage of the brig Daisy, 1912-1913; photographs of whale hunting and processing, sailing vessels, ship's crew and officers, scrimshaw, certificates and land support operation, 1910-1920; photographs of Robert Cushman Murphy and Grace E. Barstow Murphy, 1967.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155565290 View

Rachel Carson papers, 1921-1989

Title: Rachel Carson papers 1921-1989

The Rachel Carson Papers consist ofmanuscripts, notebooks, letters, newspaper clippings, photos, and printedmaterial relating to the research and publications of Rachel Carson.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 118; Other Storage Formats: oversize, 1 cold storage item; Linear Feet: 53.5

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.carson View

Robert Cushman Murphy journals, 1907-1971, 1907-1971

Title: Robert Cushman Murphy journals, 1907-1971 1907-1971

This collection contains the diaries, journals, and observations of a naturalist, generously illustrated with newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, sketches, maps, and charts. This collection contains primarily correspondence, but includes articles and addresses by Murphy as well as scrapbooks, photographs, and other miscellaneous volumes documenting his career. From his earliest travels to South American and the Antarctic regions in 1912, until his Australia voyage in 1971, Murphy continually explored animal and bird life as a scientist, and also as a concerned citizen who became one of the earliest advocates of conservation and ecology.

ArchivalResource: 42.0 Volume(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M957-ead.xml View

Journal of the South Georgia Expedition, 1912-1913, 1912-1913

Title: Journal of the South Georgia Expedition, 1912-1913 1912-1913

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Film.1055-ead.xml View