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A. S. Alexander drawings
Collection — Folder: 1-8
Identifier: MC-00-108
Content Description
The collection primarily contains pencil drawings of light fixtures and decorative elements by A.S. Alexander, most of which are on tissue. There are also several photographs and photostats, primarily of light fixtures, as well Mr. Alexander's 1904 architectural drawing certificate from Drexel and two 1918 letters by Charles F. Kinsman, president of Sterling Bronze, concerning a work trip by Mr. Alexander to Chicago.
Dates:
1904-1939, undated
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Buildings Records
Collection — drawer: 88
Identifier: ANSP-2010-227
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of architectural plans and papers related to the buildings occupied by the Academy of Natural Sciences. Included are blueprints of the Academy's 19th street complex and renovations, 1970s; schematic diagrams and blueprints of Academy spaces, 1979-1981; files on 19th St. garden and Quarry Street house, 1963; a framed print by Tom Jackson showing the Academy's 19th and Race façade; 1979 plans for a projection booth; study reports for renovations to Research Wing and the...
Dates:
1898 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1980
ANSP Building Plans, Photographs, and Prints
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0049
Scope and Contents
This collection contains architect's plans, etchings, engravings, photographs and published pictures showing the various Academy buildings from its founding. The collection is divided by external depictions and internal depictions. The latter includes some exhibits, research areas, different versions of the library, renovations, etc. A partial account was included in the Academy's Proceedings for 1901.
Dates:
1812-1944
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, Lithographs
Collection — Box: Oversize Small Collections 7
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0448
Scope and Contents
Hawkins was an English anatomist, osteologist and paleontologist, but apparently confined his interests to skeletal aspects, stressing comparative osteology as an approach to artistic representations. One paper appeared in the Academy's Proceedings for 1874, "On the Pelvis of Hadrosaurus", and another in New York in 1870 on Ichthyosaurus. He was elected to the Academy as a corresponding member in 1868. These colored lithographs,
are all labeled "Unpublished. Annonymous." However printed on...
Dates:
1829
Charles George Wood drawings
Collection — Box: Oversize Small Collections 2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0415
Scope and Contents
This single item is a folded drawing of the head of a wild boar (?) from the Island of Celebes, which is owned by Hugh Cuming of Valparaizo.
Dates:
none
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
James Abram Garfield Rehn (1881-1965) Papers.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0734
Dates:
1881-1965
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
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