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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

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

Wood, Frank. Bouka Bay Manuscript, 1907.

Title: Bouka Bay Manuscript, 1907.

Typescript story about the paddles made in Bouka Bay in the Solomon Islands, South Pacific. Illustrated with hand-drawn colored depictions of the paddles. Bound in carved wooden boards illustrated in color. Archivist added an article written in 1967 entitled "A study of Buka-Passage (Solomon Islands) ceremonial paddles".

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/774551543 View

Duprise, M. Pine Lake.

Title: Pine Lake.

ArchivalResource: items in folder : ill., photos. ; 22 x 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20277693 View

Wood, Frank Higley. The influence of music in Franz Grillparzer's life and works.

Title: The influence of music in Franz Grillparzer's life and works. 1926.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56180447 View

Torrent, Ida M. Ship. Ida M. Torrent.

Title: Ida M. Torrent.

ArchivalResource: items in folder ; 22 x 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21554871 View

Wood, Frank Higley, 1903-. Correspondence to Adolf Klarmann, 1956.

Title: Correspondence to Adolf Klarmann, 1956.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155864850 View

Wood family. Wood family papers, 1857-1958.

Title: Wood family papers, 1857-1958.

Diaries of Frank Wood, 1877, 1880, 1882-1883; papers of Ernest Eugene Wood including autograph book and notebooks, 1898, from the Cornell Winter Short Course in agriculture, farm inventory and tax records, ca. 1922-1958; and miscellaneous farm and household account books, 1867-1896. Also, genealogy and photographs of the Wood and related Benedict, Bunce, and French families of Cayuga and Wayne Counties, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1.1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64073333 View