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Benjamin Sharp Papers and Glass Lantern Slides
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0349
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials primarily related to Academy of Natural Sciences sponsored expeditions to collect specimens and study the natural world in the West Indies in 1888, Greenland in 1891, and Hawai’i in 1893.
Dates:
1844 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1888 - 1894
Henry A. Pilsbry's Leather Case
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2010-091-Artifact
Scope and Contents
This leather briefcase belonged to Henry Augustus Pilsbry while he worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences. The leather briefcase must be handled with care. It is fragile, torn, and folded in half. The leather has torn away from the stitching on the bottom sides of the case. The zipper is undone and a small tagged attached reads: Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry @ 2244 Franklin Avenue, Morton, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
Circa 1890
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- Scarborough (Trinidad and Tobago) 1
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- Peary, Robert Edwin (Robert Edwin Peary) (1856-1920) 1
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