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Morris Longstreth Parrish "Hunting on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, 1912" papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0027

Scope and Contents

His daily record of hunting events and animals seen was prepared in letterpress, but not published, being in fact a scrapbook, with maps, pictures and photographs tipped in. A snapshot of Parrish is dated Sept. 25, 1912. Only a few copies of the book were prepared, but Charles Sheldon had a personal one made from Parrish's manuscript. The photographic prints were made by the U. S. Biological Survey.

Signers of letters: Beech, Robert J. 1913; Cadwalader, Charles M. B. 1942; Holman, John P. 1922; Posth, Ferdinand, 1913; Revell, Henry E. 1913; Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1912; Sexton, George, 1920; Sheldon, Charles (4) 1921.

Dates

  • circa 1912-circa 1942

Biographical note

One-time member of the Board of Trustees andchairman of the library committee of the Academy, this Philadelphia sportsman, stockbroker and book collector made an expedition to Alaska, with Wilson Potter.

Extent

15 linear_inches (12 items)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

116 pages and 209 illustrations are combined with presentation letters by the author, dated 1942.

The collection consists of accession number mss 27

Author
Venia T. Phillips and Maurice E. Phillips (1963)
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Repository

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