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Angelo Heilprin Papers: Expedition to Yucatan and Mexico

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0007
Scope and Contents This expedition, the first official one of the Academy, included J. E. Ives, Roberts LeBoutillier, Witmer Stone and Frank C. Baker in the party. Arriving on the 22nd of February, they covered the territory of the northwestern part of Yucatan and the Mexican highlands in the vicinity of Orizaba. Natural history specimens were gathered and photographic records of the ecological conditions and the contours of the country through which they travelled, were taken. The short time spent in the...
Dates: 1890

Braun Flash Unit

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2012-067-Artifact
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a circa 1960s two-piece Braun flash unit (flash bulb and battery pack). It was transferred from the Malacology Department where it most likely had been used.

Dates: 1960s

Charles L. Lochman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0791
Scope and Contents

Lochman. a doctor in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, created this album of 220 cyanotypes of live plants, indigenous and introduced, growing without protection in the United States. Album has a manuscript title-page, Preface, index and captions.

Given to the Academy by Lochman on Dec. 21, 1896.

Collection contains materials related to botany, photography, printing, advertising, and patent law.

Dates: 1851-1899

John S. Dunning papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1005
Dates: 1930 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1951 - 1989

Crawford H. Greenewalt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0997
Overview Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (1902-1993) was a chemical engineer and the President of the DuPont Company from 1948 to 1962. He had a passion for the natural sciences, and combined his love of ornithology with photography. He was especially known for his high speed photographs of hummingbirds. His ornithological interests included bird songs, the radiance of hummingbird feathers and the evolution of shapes and sizes of birds in relation to their flight abilities. The Crawford H. Greenewalt...
Dates: 1951 - 1993

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

VIREO Department papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1000
Scope and Contents

The VIREO Department papers document the early history of the VIREO Department from its inception in 1979. This collection contains accession books, planning documents, reports, agreements, inventories, procedures, grant proposals, job applications, ledgers, royalty documents, correspondence, and negatives.

Dates: 1956 - 2011; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1996

Wharton Huber, 1877-1942.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0775
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, photographs, photographic equipment, and miscellaneous printed material. 3 document cases. Unprocessed. Personal papers of the Academy's curator of mammals, including a copy of the typed diary kept by Edward Woolman on the Academy expedition to the Queen Charlotte Islands In 1930, illustrated with Huber's photographs.

Archived from Huber's library on August 9, 1965.

Dates: 1877-1942

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