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Alexander Wilson, Copper plates
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0427
Scope and Contents
Engraved copper plates from which 10 of the illustrations of Wilson's American Ornithology were printed, namely pls. 1-5, 7-9 of vol. 1 and pls. 10-11 of v. 2. 26 x 33 cm. These were engraved by Alexander Lawson and are accompanied by a carbon of the letter of appreciation of the Academy to the donor.
Dates:
1808-1810
ANSP Archives Film Inventory
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1012
Dates:
1900-1970; Majority of material found within Bulk 1930-1950
Arthur Cleveland Bent Correspondence to Witmer Stone
Collection — Box: Small Collections 12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0550
Scope and Contents
Collection of letters written from Bent to Witmer Stone, concerning ornithological topics.
Dates:
1903-1937
Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, "Zoologie"
Collection — Box: Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0397
Scope and Contents
German zoologist, whose main intereste lay in entomology and ornithology. This volume of 320 pages deals mainly with classification and general information about vertebrates, shells and insects, including fossil forms.
Dates:
1828
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
Delaware Valley Ornithological Club records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0074
Scope and Contents
Includes constitution, minutes, lists and photographs of members, treasurer's reports, programs, scrapbook of activities, 1890-99, and general historical papers and correspondence.Signers of letters and documents: Baily, William L. (14) 1890-1900; Baker, Charles H. 1900; Batchelder, C. F. 1892; Bendix, Charles E. 1892; Bicknell, Eugene P. 1895; Bishop, Louis B. 1898; Bissegger, John B. 1896; Buller, W. H. (2) 1895-98; Bush, Walter D. 1898; Chapman, Frank M. 1894; Cope, Francis...
Dates:
1884 - 2003
John S. Dunning papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1005
Dates:
1930 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1951 - 1989
Edmund W. Stiles Papers
Collection — Box: small accessions 4
Identifier: ANSP-2011-027
Dates:
1970s-1990s
Eliot Porter Dye-Transfer Photographic Prints
Collection — Box: 1-4
Identifier: ANSP-2012-056
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of color dye-transfer prints of mostly nesting studies of songbirds, largely in New England. According to Doug Wecshler, this includes some of the best early work of stop-action photography of birds at or near their nests; these were take with a 4 x 5-inch camera, which is unusual for bird photography, and represent some of the most detailed studies of birds at the nest for that time period (between the 1960s-1970s or so).
Dates:
1960s-1980s
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- Stone, Witmer, 1866-1939 10
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- Baily, William L. (William Lloyd), 1828-1861 1
- Bent, Arthur Cleveland (1866-1954) 1
- Bond, Mary Wickham (1898-1997) 1
- Brown, Francis Herbert 1
- Cadwalader, C. M. B (Charles Meigs Biddle) (June 3,1885-1959) 1
- Carpenter, R. R. M. (Robert Ruliph Morgan), 1915-1990 1
- Carpenter, William K. du Pont (1919-1987) 1
- Carriker, Melbourne Armstrong, 1879-1965 1
- Conservation Council of Eastern Pennsylvania 1
- Cook, James, 1728-1779 1
- Crawford, Alan, Jr. 1
- Crispin, William B. (1881-1913) 1
- Deane, Ruthven (1851-1934) 1
- Delaware Valley Ornithological Club 1
- Dolan, Brooke, II (1908-August 19, 1945) 1
- Dwight, Jonathan, Jr. (1858-1929) 1
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
- Fenjohn Underwater Equipment Company 1
- Fingerhood, Edward D. 1
- Fisher, Albert Kendrick (1856-1948) 1
- Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964 1
- Fowler, Henry Weed (Henry Weed Fowler) (1878-1965) 1
- Gambel, William, 1823-1849 1
- Garrido, Orlando H. 1
- Gehart, William 1
- Gillin, James Rhoads (1886-1952) 1
- Grinnell, Joseph 1
- Harold Walter, Bell-Marley (1872/3-1945) 1
- Havell, Robert, 1793-1878 1
- Hoopes, Josiah 1
- Jamison, Harry K. 1
- Jay, William (1884-1958) 1
- Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846 1
- Lippincott, Elizabeth 1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
- McAtee, Waldo Lee (1883-1962) 1
- McMullen, Turner E. 1
- Merriam, Clinton Hart, 1855-1942 1
- Mickel, Anna A 1
- Miller, Gerrit Smith, Jr. (b. 1869) 1
- Miller, Waldron DeWitt (1874-1929) 1
- Nolan, Edward J. (Edward James), 1846-1921 1
- Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 1
- Oberholser, Harry Church (b. 1870) 1
- Pennock, Charles John (1857-1935) 1
- Poole, Earl L. 1
- Porter, Eliot, 1901-1990 1
- Quinn, John R. (b. 1938) 1
- Rice, Nate (Nathan Hartman) (1971-) 1
- Richmond, Charles Wallace 1
- Ridgway, Robert (1850-1929) 1
- Rofen, Robert Harry 1
- Roland, Conrad K. 1
- Rutgers University 1
- Sage, John Hall (1847-1925) 1
- Sheldon, Frederick H. 1
- Shufeldt, R. W. (Robert Wilson) (1850-1934) 1
- Springs, William Lee, Jr. 1
- Stiles, Edmund W. (Edmund "Ted" W. Stiles) (1945-2010) 1
- Street, J. Fletcher (1880-1944) 1
- Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851 1
- Troschel, Hans 1
- Trotter, Spencer (1890-1931) 1
- Trotter, William Henry (1869-1933) 1
- Verreaux, Jules, 1807-1873 1
- Vieillot, L. P. (Louis Pierre) (1748-1831) 1
- Visual Resources for Ornithology (Organization) 1
- Wechsler, Doug 1
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