Special Films Collection: Expedition films, 1912-1960.

Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953

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Osa Johnson (March 14, 1894 – January 7, 1953) was an American adventurer and documentary filmmaker with her spouse Martin Johnson. In the first half of the 20th century the couple captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, faraway lands. Photographers, explorers, marketers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa studied the wildlife and peoples of East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo. They explored then-unknown...

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. Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930)

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From 1921 to 1930 a series of scientific expeditions in Central Asia was conducted by the Museum in conjunction with collaborating institutions and investigators. From the description of Records, 1924-1961, 1924-1934 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509007 The Third Central Asiatic Expedition, organized in 1921, was third in a series of expeditions led by Roy Chapman Andrews to Mongolia and China to study the geography and to collect specimens in the fields of geolog...

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...

Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953

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Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951

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Lincoln Ellsworth (b. May 12, 1880, Chicago, Illinois-d. May 26, 1951, New York City), American explorer, engineer, and scientist. Ellsworth led the first trans-Arctic (1926) and trans-Antarctic (1935) air crossings. He first attempted to fly over the North Pole in 1925 with Roald Amundsen. Their planes were forced down onto the ice short of their goal, and the explorers spent 30 days trapped on the surface. In 1926, Ellsworth accompanied Amundsen on his second effort to fly over the Pole in th...

Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965

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Ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Ornithological photographs, [ca. 1960] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155517637 ...

Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Robert Cushman Murphy and his wife, Grace Emiline Barstow Murphy. From the description of Letters, 1964-1971, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155873220 Naturalist, scientist and environmentalist. From the description of Papers, [ca.1895-1965], ca.1895-ca.1965 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 156794758 Robert Cushman Murphy was a zoologist, ornithologist, and ocean...

Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969

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James L. Clark's field trip to the Cassiar District of British Columbia to collect a group of Osborn caribous for the Hall of North American Mammals. From the description of British Columbia field photographs, 1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155517529 Naturalist, taxidermist, and explorer at the American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Report of the Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1947-1948 [...

Graves, George W.

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Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1934-1935)

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Vernay, Arthur Stannard, d. 1960

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This trip was undertaken by Arthur S. Stannard and Col. J.B. Dodge in Jan.-Feb. 1921, and was thought to be the first time that it had been done in its entirety. Vernay and Dodge were looking for samburs (large Asiatic deer), but did not find any. From the description of Asian travel photograph, 1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155518076 On his way back from the Faunthorpe-Vernay Indian Expedition of 1923 and from field work in Burma, Vernay stopped for a few months duri...

Weaver Thailand Expedition.

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Bennett-Bird Bolivian Expedition.

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Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978

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W. Douglas Burden was a geologist, naturalist, hunter, filmmaker and author, affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. Burden was a trustee of the AMNH, 1926-1961, chaired a committee on the preparation of homolosine (equal-area projection) maps, and established the AMNH Dept. of Experimental Biology in 1928 (later named the Dept. of Animal Behavior). Burden formed Burden Pictures, Inc., 1928-1931, with ichthyologist Ilia Tolstoy; beginning in 1935, with To...

Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926

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Gilliard Sepik Expedition (1953-1954)

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Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948

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Chronologies 1884 September 2 Charles Templeton Crocker is born in San Francisco, California. 1888 August 14 Charles Crocker (Templeton Crocker's grandfather and one of the "big four" who built the Central Pacific Railroad) dies. 1898 ...

Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982

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Junius Bouton Bird (b. September 12, 1907, Rye, New York- d. April 2, Spuyten Duyvil, New York), was an American archaeologist who was appointed curator of South American Archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1934. His contributions to the study of ecology, climate, and pre-Columbian archaeology earned him several awards including The Viking Fund Medal for Archaeology (1956) and The Order of "El sol de Peru" (1974). In 1961 he was elected as the president of the Society for Am...

Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958

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Explorer and hunter; leader of several expeditions to Africa and Asia mainly to collect big game and to create film records of the fauna and people in those regions. Field Associate in the American Museum of Natural History Dept. of Mammalogy on four of his expeditions. From the description of Papers, 1922-1957. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 18538627 From the description of Papers, 1922-1957 [microform]. (American Museum of Natural History). World...

American Museum of Natural History. Asiatic Zoological Expedition.

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Lincoln Ellworth's Antarctic Expedition.

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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...

Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition to Burma.

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