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Harry Whitney Correspondence and Photograph Albums

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0788
Scope and Contents

Academy trustee Harry Whitney made a photographic record of his expeditions to the Arctic, and preserved the record in these albums. The correspondence concerns Eskimo artifacts.

Dates: 1908-1931

Constantine Hering and Calvin B. Knerr family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HU-100
Overview Dr. Constantine Hering (1800-1880), born and educated in Germany, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1833 and devoted his life to the study, practice and education of homeopathic medicine in the United States. As such, he is considered the father of homeopathy in America. Hering founded several schools and organizations devoted to teaching homeopathy, especially the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Arts, aka the Allentown Academy, in 1836, and the Hahnemann Medical College of...
Dates: 1820 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1940

Horace G. Richards Papers

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0976
Overview Horace G. Richards (1906-1984) was a geologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and an authority on the geologic formations of the Atlantic coastal plain. His research specialty focused on geology and paleontology of the Quaternary Period (approximately the past 1.8 million years), but his research interests also included Cenozoic mollusca, and marine Pleistocene geology and paleontology of the Atlantic coastal plain. Additionally, he studied climate change and coastal...
Dates: 1928-1984

E.R. Fenimore Johnson photographs

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0995
Overview Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson (1899-1986) was a pioneer in the development of underwater photography and was also an explorer, yachtsman and researcher. His interests in underwater photography developed during World War II when he enlisted in Naval Research and worked with underwater demolition and photography. He created his own company, Fenjohn Underwater Equipment Company and patented equipment inventions. The E.R. Fenimore Johnson photographs, 1929-1970, is a rich collection of...
Dates: 1929 - 1970

Mabelle Campbell photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1002
Scope and Contents

The Mabelle Campbell photograph collection includes six photo albums, thirty-nine loose photos, two Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company Hiking Club Lists, and nine pamphlets from the Leidy Microscopical Club. The albums, photos, and papers document excursions of the Delaware Valley Naturalists Union from 1894-1939. According to a conversation with Mrs. Campbell in 1980, most of the photographs were taken by Harold Palmer

This collection is arranged chronologically.

Dates: 1894-1939; Majority of material found within 1911 - 1933

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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 4
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Correspondence 3
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2
American Association of Petroleum Geologists 1
American Geological Institute 1
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Campbell, Mabel 1