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ANSP Petitions and Resolutions Papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 13
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0602
Scope and Contents
These petitions and resolutions are close pieces, possibly written by the person proposing the action, as a note for the secretary when copying his minutes. Most of them are transcribed into the Minutes of the Academy but
oftentimes changed in wording or intent. The petitions number only four and were made mostly to the legislature of Pennsylvania, or to some branch of the Federal Government, their inclusive dates being 1837-1876. The resolutions have been arranged in two groups, first those...
Dates:
1826-1895
Copper plate for printing from John James Audubon's Birds of America (London, 1824-1838): Plate 196 "Labrador Falcon" or Gyrfalcon
Item — no container: Flat File
Identifier: ANSP-2012-042
Scope and Contents
According to appraiser Donald Cresswell on 24 April 2006:Copper plate used for printing plate number 196 for The Birds of America "Labrador Falcon" (known as Gyrfalcon) by John James Audubon and printed in London by Rovert Havell. This is one of the larger plates bacause the image almost fills the elephant folio sheets measuring approxiamtely 38 inches by 25 inches comprising the finished prints. The plate is in fine condition with the exception of a very few spots and finger...
Dates:
1824-1838
Edward Harris papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0360
Scope and Contents
Harris, a native of New Jersey, became a close friend and patron of John James Audubon. He supported some of his expeditions financially and joined him in two western trips, one in 1837 to Texas and the other in 1843 up the
Missouri River. The two copies of the original journal in this collection give Harris' day by day account of this second trip. One is accompanied by a foreword by J. Fletcher Street. The original journal, and Harris' diary are
in the Department of Archives and History of...
Dates:
1843-47
John James Audubon Collection of Native American Clothing and Tools
Collection — Box: 1-5
Identifier: ANSP-2010-068-Artifact
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a set of Native American clothing and tools belonging to John James Audubon that were deposited at the Academy by one of his descendants. The set includes a pair of trousers, a leather jacket, two sets of moccasins, a beaded blanket, a stone ax head, a knife scabbard, a set of bear claws, a beaded pouch, and a pelican skin blanket.
Dates:
Circa 1840
John James Audubon Le Petit Caporal Falco Temerarius, Male Print
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-241
Scope and Contents
Illustration engraved by R. Havell. Printed and coloured by R. Havell, London 1829.
Dates:
1829
John James Audubon Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0173
Scope and Contents
Document signed by 18 members nominating Audubon for corresponding membership to the Academy September 28, 1831; holograph article for the Proceedings v. 6, 1852, p. 114; biographical information amassed by McCready Huston; and photographs of the Have1 Establishment in London, where some of Audubon's plates were made for his elephant folio of American Birds, Correspondence and documents for the National Exhibition in 1938 and other papers.Signers: Chestnik,...
Dates:
1831-1938
John James Audubon Sciurus Mollipilosus (Soft-Haired Squirrel) Print
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-242
Scope and Contents
First edition print of plate XIX Sciurus mollipilosus soft-haired squirrel from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon and John Bachman, New York: 1845-1848. Printed by John R. Bowen, Philadelphia.
Dates:
1845-1848
John Kirk Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0404
Scope and Contents
Ornithologist and explorer. The papers in this collection all refer to his experiences when accompanying Captain Wyeth across the Rocky Mountains. Captain Wyeth undertook the journey for the Columbia River Fishing and
Trading Company to establish trading posts beyond the Rockies. Townsend's trip, in the company of Thomas Nuttall was extended to the Sandwich Islands. He returned to the Columbia River, collecting birds there, returning to the
Islands, and eventually back to Philadelphia by way...
Dates:
1834-1839
Plaster Life Mask of John James Audubon
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2011-097
Overview
First generation cast of original Life Mask in collection of MCZ at Harvard University. Copy by Donald Baird. Original by Robert Havell.
Dates:
1985 cast of original
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