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Carriker South American Expeditions, 1929-1935. Papers.
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0900
Overview
These papers are concerned with five separate expeditions for collecting vertebrates in South America. The first three, in 1929-1932 were made to Peru, while the second two, 1933-1935 were to Bolivia. Melbourne A. Carriker was a Philadelphian interested in becoming a collector and through the sponsorship of the Academy and financial aid of Clement B. Newbold, he went to Peru where he collected birds and mammals. Later, on his Bolivian expeditions he was accompanied by his son M.R. Carriker...
Dates:
1929-1935
Film "Exploring the Top of the World: The Second Brooke Dolan Asiatic Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [1934-1936]"
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2012-080
Dates:
1934-1936; Digitized: 2013
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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