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American Entomological Society Portraits. Photographs and illustrations.
Collection — Box: Oversize Small Collections 8
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0922
Dates:
1850-1950
ANSP collection of mastodon drawings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0281
Scope and Contents
The three folio watercolors are by an unknown artist, the designs possibly portraying Mastodon giganteus, which was mounted by James Hall in Albany. The three items are: watercolor of the mounted animal as a design for a
fountain, profile of skeleton with the foundation structure, and the foundation only, showing the plan of the water and fountain heads.During research for "All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins" Bob Peck determined that these paintings...
Dates:
undated
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
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
Joseph Leidy Illustrations
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0003
Overview
Most popularly known as the Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology, Joseph Leidy was also the Founder of American Parasitology, a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, a pioneering protozoologist, an influential teacher of Natural History, a passionate microscopist, an accomplished scientific illustrator, and an expert on a variety of subjects. He published scientific papers on more than a thousand extinct and living protozoa, fungi and animals as well as an assortment...
Dates:
1833 - 1880
London Illustrated News issue featuring Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins dinosaurs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2012-061
Dates:
1880s
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
Philip Powell Calvert, 1871-1961. Early observations and field notes, 1885-88.
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0933
Overview
Even at the age of 14, this author was keeping notebooks of his field observations and with other enthusiasts, i.e. friends at the Central High School, and in the local Agassiz Club, preparing information for catalogs of various groups of animals. Notebooks and illustrated records, as well as correspondence with his colleagues are found in this collection.
Dates:
1885-88
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