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John Kirk Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0404
Scope and Contents
Ornithologist and explorer. The papers in this collection all refer to his experiences when accompanying Captain Wyeth across the Rocky Mountains. Captain Wyeth undertook the journey for the Columbia River Fishing and
Trading Company to establish trading posts beyond the Rockies. Townsend's trip, in the company of Thomas Nuttall was extended to the Sandwich Islands. He returned to the Columbia River, collecting birds there, returning to the
Islands, and eventually back to Philadelphia by way...
Dates:
1834-1839
Peary Greenland Expedition Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0145
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters, reports, both administrative and scientific, lists of specimens taken and observed, photographs of the staff, equipment and area traversed. Original outline map of expedition routes drawn by R. E. Peary. Much information about the part played by the Academy of Natural Sciences, is preserved in its Publicity Scrapbooks. Peary flag, previously on display in the Museum, has been added to this collection.
Dates:
1890-1894
Philip Powell Calvert and Amelia Smith Calvert's Costa Rica Expedition Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0633
Scope and Contents
Philip Powell Calvert and Amelia Smith Calvert's Costa Rica Expedition Papers include notebooks, diaries, photographs and maps. The Calverts, Philip and Amelia, spent more than a year in Costa Rica studying natural history. The itinerary and field notes were preserved in 10 small notebooks, photographs were taken (31 included here) and a diary written, the latter occupying 2 volumes. From this mateiral, their book was later published, Mrs. Calvert's manuscript volumes on the plants...
Dates:
1909-1910
President's Office and Administrative Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0990
Overview
The oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP) was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning." Since the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, there have been twenty-eight presidents and five acting presidents. From 1937 to 1995, there were four presidents and one acting president who left their administrations well...
Dates:
1907-2003; Majority of material found within 1939-1993
Records of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Managing Directors
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1010
Scope and Contents
Natural Science, history, geology, religion, anthropology, government reports, maps, advertising ephemera, letterhead art,
This is a collection of incoming and outgoing correspondence of Charles M.B. Cadwalader, dating from 1933 to 1939. Much of the correspondence relates to the acquisition of specimens, donations, estates and annuities, publications, and other Academy business. There is also a significant amount of correspondence with scientists on Academy expeditions,...
Dates:
1929-1959
Samuel Washington Woodhouse, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0387
Scope and Contents
Naturalist and surgeon, he accompanied the U. S. topographical engineers, under Sitgreaves and Woodruff, on the Boundary Survey of the Creek and Cherokee Indian Nations, 1849-50, and again under Sitgreaves, on the Zuni
River Expedition in 1851-2. The next year, he was a member of the private enterprise Inter-ocean Canal, Railroad and Mining Company's Expedition to Nicaragua and Honduras. In 1859-60 while surgeon on Cope's Line of Packets running between Philadelphia and Liverpool, he made a...
Dates:
1849-89
Shackleton Antarctic Expedition
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0184
Scope and Contents
These photographs are mounted on heavy boards 30 x 23 cm. The pictures include photographs of personnel, activities of the party on water, land and ice, their ship, their longboats, their dogs and the animals seen in Antarctica. Many others pertain to the topography of the area, to icebergs, ice floes and glaciers.
Dates:
1906-1907
Virginia Orr's Ostheimer Expedition Trunk
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2013-006
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an Academy expedition trunk used by Virginia Orr Ostheimer in a 1967 expedition.
Dates:
1967
Wharton Huber, 1877-1942.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0775
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, photographic equipment, and miscellaneous printed material. 3 document cases. Unprocessed.
Personal papers of the Academy's curator of mammals, including a copy of the typed diary kept by Edward Woolman on the Academy expedition to the Queen Charlotte Islands In 1930, illustrated with Huber's photographs.
Archived from Huber's library on August 9, 1965.
Dates:
1877-1942
Wharton Huber Photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2010-101
Scope and Contents
70 linear inches of glass plate negatives, positives, and plastic film (could be nitrate?).
Dates:
1920s
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- Carriker, Melbourne R. (Melbourne Romaine), 1915-2007 1
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- Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
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- Heilprin, Angelo, 1853-1907 1
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
- Hill, John Eric 1
- Huber, Bessie 1
- Huber, Margaretta 1
- Jessup, Augustus Edward (1797-1859) 1
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- Kartchner, K. C. 1
- Knight, Charles W. R. 1
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- Learn, M. M. 1
- Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 1
- Leigh, W. Colston 1
- Leonard, Edgar W. 1
- Ludwick Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Maclure, William, 1763-1840 1
- Maes, Virginia Orr 1
- Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) 1
- Marvel, William [ADDED from ATLAS dataset] 1
- McCadden, David 1
- Moore, J. Percy (1869-1965) 1
- Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 1
- Newbold, Arthur E. 1
- Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 1
- Ogilvy, David 1
- Osborne, Bess 1
- Perkins, Maxwell E. 1
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