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Crawford H. Greenewalt papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0997
Overview
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (1902-1993) was a chemical engineer and the President of the DuPont Company from 1948 to 1962. He had a passion for the natural sciences, and combined his love of ornithology with photography. He was especially known for his high speed photographs of hummingbirds. His ornithological interests included bird songs, the radiance of hummingbird feathers and the evolution of shapes and sizes of birds in relation to their flight abilities. The Crawford H. Greenewalt...
Dates:
1951 - 1993
Henry Augustus Pilsbry papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0200
Scope and Contents
The Henry Augustus Pilsbry papers houses the papers of Henry Augustus Pilsbry. This collection, which dates from 1878 to 1986, with bulk dates from 1878 to 1957, consists of correspondence, notes, index cards, manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, illustrated and photographic publication plates, photographs, negatives, glass plate negatives, ephemera, and wooden printing blocks.This collection is arranged into six series: “I. Correspondence, 1882-1977,“ “II. Writings,...
Dates:
1878 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1878 - 1957
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- Audiovisual materials 1
- Awards 1
- Birds 1
- Birds -- Flight 1
- Birds -- Songs and music 1
- Black-and-white photographs 1
- Black-and-white slides 1
- Clippings 1
- Correspondence 1
- Hummingbirds 1
- Malacologists 1
- Malacology 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Ornithology 1
- Ornithology -- Methodology 1
- Ornithology -- Research 1
- Photographic Plates 1
- Photography 1
- Photography, High-speed 1
- Publications 1
- Sketches 1
- Slides (photographs) 1
- Stereoscopic photographs 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
- Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
- Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, 1862-1957 1
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