Field photographs, 1939-1940.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Field photographs, 1939-1940.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155515388

Photographs documenting the field work of Michael Lerner and Henry C. Raven in Australia and New Zealand, including material collected from the New Zealand Tourist Bureau. Photographs show shoreline views and geological formations, birds, and fish including swordfish and marlin. Also, village and street scenes. Several specimens were also exhibited at the 1940 World's Fair in New York. Photographs were taken by Ludwig Ferraglio, Frank Ramsay, and Henry Cushier Raven. Copy photographs by Thane L. Bierwert and Charles H. Coles. Photographs are identified.

33 photonegatives : b&w glass.63 photonegatives : b&w nitrate.927 photonegatives : b&w.209 photoprints : b&w.2 photoprints : b&w mounted on file cards.1 album (1091 photoprints) : b&w mounted.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6879334

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

American Museum of Natural History

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r31qn8 (corporateBody)

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...

Ramsay, Frank.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj5s6g (person)

Lerner, Michael, 1943-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sb4wtf (person)

Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xw4trg (person)

Henry Cushier Raven (1889-1944) began his zoological career in the Department of Preparation of the American Museum of Natural History in 1907. While there he worked with Jesse D. Figgins and Herbert Lang, noted taxidermists. When Figgins moved to the Colorado Museum of Natural History in 1910, he took Raven with him. In 1912, the Smithsonian Institution and William Louis Abbott were looking for a young collector and explorer to carry on Abbott's work in the East Indies. Hearing good reports reg...

Bierwert, Thane L.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zs357s (person)

Lerner Australia-New Zealand Expedition (1939-1940)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69371n7 (corporateBody)

Coles, Charles H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6377jnz (person)

Ferraglio, Ludwig G.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nw2tjj (person)