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John James Audubon Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0173

Scope and Contents

Document signed by 18 members nominating Audubon for corresponding membership to the Academy September 28, 1831; holograph article for the Proceedings v. 6, 1852, p. 114; biographical information amassed by McCready Huston; and photographs of the Have1 Establishment in London, where some of Audubon's plates were made for his elephant folio of American Birds, Correspondence and documents for the National Exhibition in 1938 and other papers.

Signers: Chestnik, Barney; Huston, McCready.

Dates

  • 1831-1938

Creator

Extent

0.2 linear feet (173 items)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift in part, 1950.

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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