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Benjamin Sharp Papers and Glass Lantern Slides
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0349
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials primarily related to Academy of Natural Sciences sponsored expeditions to collect specimens and study the natural world in the West Indies in 1888, Greenland in 1891, and Hawai’i in 1893.
Dates:
1844 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1888 - 1894
Morris Longstreth Parrish "Hunting on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, 1912" papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0027
Scope and Contents
His daily record of hunting events and animals seen was prepared in letterpress, but not published, being in fact a scrapbook, with maps, pictures and photographs tipped in. A snapshot of Parrish is dated Sept. 25, 1912. Only a few copies of the book were prepared, but Charles Sheldon had a personal one made from Parrish's manuscript. The photographic prints were made by the U. S. Biological Survey.Signers of letters: Beech, Robert J. 1913; Cadwalader, Charles M. B. 1942; Holman,...
Dates:
circa 1912-circa 1942
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- Field notes 1
- Greenland 1
- Hawaii 1
- Indigenous people 1
- Lantern slides 1
- Leprosy -- Patients 1
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- Maps 1
- Scarborough (Trinidad and Tobago) 1
- Scientific expeditions 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Siberia (Russia) 1
- West Indies 1
- Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation 1 ∧ less
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- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1
- Peary, Robert Edwin (Robert Edwin Peary) (1856-1920) 1
- Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, 1862-1957 1
- Sharp, Benjamin, 1858-1915 1
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