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George L. Harrison, Jr., Photographs from Hunting Expeditions, 1903-1914

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2012-049
Scope and Contents This collection contains approximately 1300 glass and nitrate film negatives taken by and of George L. Harrison, Jr., and his wife Mary Ingalls Harrison, on their expeditions and travels in the early 20th Century. Importantly, a number of Academy specimens (mammals and birds, at least) were collected by Harrison et al. and remain in the Academy collections today.Further, the collection includes an external hard-drive with a set of digital images of the negatives, professionally...
Dates: 1903-1914

Travel Journals of Minturn Wright III, 1974-1997

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-018
Scope and Contents Photocopied typescript of Academy's former trustee Minturn Wright III's travelogues. The ANSP offered high-end educational travel "expeditions" in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mr. Wright participated in at least the nine excursions represented here, across South and Central America, Eastern Canada, Mongolia, and the Antarctic between 1974 and 1997. The Academy's Senior Fellow Robert M. Peck travelled with Wright on the excursion to Mongolia in 1997, and Antarctica, 1994. It is through Peck that...
Dates: 1974-1997