Administrative files, 1869-1968.

Johnson, Martin Elmer, 1884-1937

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Martin E. Johnson was an explorer, expert photographer and filmmaker. Johnson went on his first expedition to the South Pacific, then returned with his wife for a second expedition. On joining the Explorers Club in 1921, Johnson met Carl Akeley and the two began forming the Martin Johnson Expedition Corporation. The idea was to use Johnson's popular films as a way to raise money for the Akeley African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. The Johnsons went on five expeditions to Africa...

American Museum of Natural History. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall.

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American Museum of Natural History. Planetarium Authority.

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American Museum of Natural History. Board of Trustees

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American Museum of Natural History

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The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869 to be of service to the city's public schools, advance scientific research in natural history, and to exhibit natural history objects for casual visitors. From the description of Administrative files, 1869-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513508 Museum exhibition displayed in the Museum's showcase in 1975. From the description of Cans from pressured city exhibition photographs, 1975. (Unknown). Wor...

Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929

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Frederic A. (Augustus) Lucas (1852-1929) was a museum curator and adminstrator. He was born in Plymouth, MA on March 25, 1852. He received an honorary D.Sc. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1909. Lucas began his career at Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, NY. There he practiced taxidermy, osteology and museum technique. He transferred to the U.S. National Museum in 1882 and remained there until 1904. From 1904-1911 he was curator-in-chief of the Museum of the Brooklyn...

Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-

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Lawyer, public official. From the description of Reminiscences of Frederick Trubee Davison : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481123 Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Frederick Trubee Davison : oral history, 1951. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309731874 Aviation pioneer; B.A. Yale, 1918, M.A., 1921; during World War I founded the first Yale aviati...

Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1903)

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The expedition collected ethnographic artifacts of the Indians of the Northwest Coast and of peoples of northeastern Asia. From the description of Records, 1897-1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511739 ...

Frick, Childs, 1883-1965

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Vertebrate paleontologist. Frick maintained the extensive fossil mammal collection at the American Museum of Natural History and a laboratory on Long Island. He provided funding for expeditions and for storage facilities at the Museum. From the description of Photographs, 1922-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509767 Vertebrate paleontologist. Frick maintained the extensive fossil mammal collection at the American Museu...

Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981

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Herpetologist, Associate Curator in the Dept. of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Correspondence, 1946-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510728 American zooligist. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Geoffrey Hellman, 1966 Aug. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756224787 James A. Oliver, a herpetologist, was director of the American Museum of Natural History from 1959 to 1...

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935

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Paleontologist, professor of biology at Columbia University, President of Trustees 1908-1933, American Museum of Natural History vertebrate paleontologist. From the description of Henry Fairfield Osborn letter to W. Orton Tewson [manuscript], 1925 April 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 213468939 Henry Fairfield Osborn was a member of the Princeton class of 1877, one of the earliest graduates of the School of Science. He returned to Princeton in 1883 after gr...

Martin Johnson African Expedition Corp.

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Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937.

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Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)

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The Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History was an ornithological expedition originated by Dr. Leonard C. Sanford and funded by Harry Payne Whitney. Their mission was to systematically explore the many islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia for previously undiscovered or little-known bird specimens. At the time it was the most expansive ornithological expedition ever conceived, and active field research would last over two decades, from 1920 to 1941. Durin...

Wolfe, John, -1601

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Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908

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American Museum of Natural History. Management Board.

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Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960

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Zoologist, explorer, and author. From the description of Roy Chapman Andrews correspondence, 1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449556 Naturalist and explorer, leader of the Asiatic Zoological Expeditions and the Central Asiatic Expeditions, director of American Museum of Natural History from 1935 to 1941. From the description of Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930 [microform] / Roy Chapman Andrews. 1919-1930. (American Museum of Natural His...

Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991

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Albert Eide Parr, an oceanographer and ichthyologist, was director of the American Museum of Natural History from 1942 to 1959. Parr was born in Bergen, Norway, went to sea during school and college vacations, studied zoology, and was appointed assistant in the Norway Bureau of Fisheries while an undergraduate. In 1926, Parr came to the United States, worked at the New York Aquarium, and in 1927 was invited by Harry Payne Bingham to serve as naturalist on an expedition t...

White, Alexander S.

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Bumpus, Hermon C. (Hermon Carey), 1862-1943

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Stuart, Robert Louis

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