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Helen E. Lawson, Illustrations, 1842-1857
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0912
Overview
Helen Elizabeth Lawson, the second daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth De Scaife Lawson, was born in Philadelphia sometime in or about the year 1808. An accomplished scientific illustrator, her contemporaries described her work to be "so perfect as certainly leave nothing to be desired", and H.A. Pilsbry stated that he considered her illustrations for Amos Binney's The Terrestrial Air-breathing Mollusks of the United States, to be the finest shell illustrations ever made. This collection...
Dates:
1842-1857
Jason Poole's Sketches of Irish Elk (Megaloceros) and Narwhal (Monodon) Mounts for 2012 Exhibition
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2011-033
Dates:
September 2011
Louis Agassiz Fuertes Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0797
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of Fuertes material amassed from 1976 to 2000, containing the following items: calendar for 1984, illustrated with Fuertes images, and published by El Museo del Barrio in New York; copy of Fuertes's "Images of Tropical Bird Voices," published in Bird-Lore in 1913, given to Academy Curator Witmer Stone in 1915 and so inscribed; Fuertes's illustrations on cards distributed in packages of baking soda by its manufacturer, Arm & Hammer; copy of U.S. Department of...
Dates:
1874-1927
T.A. Conrad Shell Illustration and Unrelated List
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2013-005
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two seemingly unrelated items found in the Library Map Room - Greenfield Imaging Center during a clean-out in 2012. One item is a shell illustration by T.A. Conrad, no date. The other is a list, no author.
Dates:
ca. 1840