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Pennsylvania Audubon Society, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0398
Scope and Contents
A Society by this name was incorporated in 1886, was active in furthering
the study of ornithology and in the field of education in the protection of wild
birds, Interest died after a few years and the Society practically ceased to
exist. In 1896 another Society was founded, whose seal gave its name as the
"Audubon Society of Pennsylvania." This second society was not incorporated,
but followed the same line of interest and actually became known as the
"Pennsylvania Audubon Society," even...
Dates:
1886-1937
Plaster Life Mask of John James Audubon
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2011-097
Overview
First generation cast of original Life Mask in collection of MCZ at Harvard University. Copy by Donald Baird. Original by Robert Havell.
Dates:
1985 cast of original
Earl Lincoln Poole papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0458
Scope and Contents
The Earl Lincoln Poole papers house records created by Poole in the study of ornithology and related disciplines, and his illustrations for Academy collaborations. The collection dates from 1915 to 1972 and contains paintings, illustrations, printing blocks, rough drafts, notes, maps, field notes, correspondence, index cards, photographs, slides, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. These materials document Poole's work as an illustrator for Academy ornithologists, his efforts to document the...
Dates:
1915 - 1972
Samuel Nicholson Rhoads, Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0421
Scope and Contents
Naturalist, ornithologist, mammalogist, book dealer and businessman, Samuel Rhoads wrote particularily on the local fauna of birds and mammals. The journals of his various expeditions contain mostly natural history data. Those written from Ecuador and Guatemala include also information about the countries. He was a founder of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, its Secretary and later its President.
Dates:
1890-1934
SEE Coll 190 Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, "History of Bird Collections typescript
Collection — Box: Coll. 444-447, 449
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0446
Scope and Contents
A 29-page record of the collections in the Academy of Natural Sciences arranged chronologically from 1815 to 1953, with a 16-page index prepared by Venia T. Phillips.
Dates:
1957
Spackman Family, Ornithological workbook
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0428
Scope and Contents
This volume represents a series of numbered sheets, continuing to no.
385, but with a great many gaps. Each sheet was repaired and the full gathering
bound by a former librarian. Each carries a watercolor of a bird, the
drawings seemingly copied from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology.
The volume was originally labeled: "Wilson's original drawings" but this
note lightly crossed out and in the hand of E. J. Nolan another note "Not
Wilson's drawings" inserted. Again below the original...
Dates:
1842?
The James Bond Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0972
Scope and Contents
The James Bond Collection contains correspondence, publications, photographs and objects related to the ornithology work of Bond. The collection is divided into three series: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Publications; and Series III. Objects. Series I. Correspondence contains letters dealing with Bond’s work as an ornithologist at the Academy including information on research, collecting trips, and publications with a few personal letters. In addition to original...
Dates:
1911-1988; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1988
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Art Collection
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0808
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 487 natural history drawings in watercolor, wash, ink, gauche, and tempera, primarily created between 1834 and 1936. The majority of subjects are birds, but mammals are also included. The collection is made up of 220 drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 1874-1927, 71 by John L. (John Livesy) Ridgway (b. 1859), 63 by Robert J. Sim, 29 by W. T. Allan, 27 by Ernest Thomas Seton (1860-1946), 13 by Allan Brooks (1869-1946), 11 by D. Darling, 8 by Earl L. Poole, 5 by...
Dates:
1834-1995; Majority of material found within 1888-circa 1936
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- Carpenter, William K. du Pont (1919-1987) 1
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- Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964 1
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- Gambel, William, 1823-1849 1
- Garrido, Orlando H. 1
- Gehart, William 1
- Gillin, James Rhoads (1886-1952) 1
- Grinnell, Joseph 1
- Harold Walter, Bell-Marley (1872/3-1945) 1
- Havell, Robert, 1793-1878 1
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- Jamison, Harry K. 1
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- Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846 1
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- Miller, Gerrit Smith, Jr. (b. 1869) 1
- Miller, Waldron DeWitt (1874-1929) 1
- Nolan, Edward J. (Edward James), 1846-1921 1
- Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 1
- Oberholser, Harry Church (b. 1870) 1
- Pennock, Charles John (1857-1935) 1
- Poole, Earl L. 1
- Porter, Eliot, 1901-1990 1
- Quinn, John R. (b. 1938) 1
- Rice, Nate (Nathan Hartman) (1971-) 1
- Richmond, Charles Wallace 1
- Ridgway, Robert (1850-1929) 1
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- Roland, Conrad K. 1
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- Sheldon, Frederick H. 1
- Shufeldt, R. W. (Robert Wilson) (1850-1934) 1
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- Stiles, Edmund W. (Edmund "Ted" W. Stiles) (1945-2010) 1
- Street, J. Fletcher (1880-1944) 1
- Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851 1
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- Trotter, Spencer (1890-1931) 1
- Trotter, William Henry (1869-1933) 1
- Verreaux, Jules, 1807-1873 1
- Vieillot, L. P. (Louis Pierre) (1748-1831) 1
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