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Albert Laessle animal statues and medal
Collection — Container: Box Small Collections 15
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0802
Overview
Albert Laessle (1877-1954), was a Philadelphia sculptor who combined science and art to create realistic animal studies. This collection includes four of his bronze sculptures, 2 modeled while Laessle studied in Paris, 1906 (of turtles), 2 others while in Philadelphia, 1908,1918 (a polar bear and an eagle). The works measure from 8 x 11 x 8 cm. to 54 x 57 x 95 cm. According to their inscriptions, three sculptures were cast at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry in New York. Also includes 1 bronze...
Dates:
1906-1918
Alderson & Sessions Market and Management Survey collection
Collection
Identifier: UR-03-027
Scope and Contents
The collection contains rough drafts of some of the volumes, dated November and December 1955, undated volumes which are most likely drafts from late 1955, and copies of the final version, submitted April 1956. While there are duplicates of most volumes, there is no copy of the Management Phase: Statistics volume, as a rough draft or the final version. The collection also includes a small amount of material from the office of the Dean of the Faculty that relates to the Alderson...
Dates:
1955 - 1957
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
Alex Agassiz Collection
Collection — Box: small accessions 2
Identifier: ANSP-2010-194
Dates:
1940's
Alexander Calder Illustrations for A Bestiary
Collection — Folder: FF81
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1016
Scope and Contents
Two letterpress proof plate illustrations, one of pelicans and the other of elephants produced for the book, A Bestiary, published in 1955, compiled by Richard Wilbur and illustrated by Alexander Calder.
Dates:
circa 1955
Alexander Lawson Scrapbooks of Engravings
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0079
Overview
Alexander Lawson, engraver, died in 1846, leaving behind a great quantity of his own and other artist's work. His daughters, Malvinia and Mary, constructed a scrapbook filled with these artworks, which they donated to the Academy. The scrapbook contains 532 prints, drawings, and watercolors illustrating natural history and scientific books or periodicals, including zoological, ornithological and medical illustrations, as well as technical illustrations and illustration for novels and...
Dates:
1796 - 1851; Majority of material found within 1806 - 1842
Alexander MacElwee Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0036
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of three diaries containing field notes taken on MacElwee's "botanical rambles" between 1893 and 1900; two records books listing plant specimens MacElwee collected between 1899 and 1920 and subsequently donated to the herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences; a catalog of plants in the botanic garden at the University of Pennsylvania, composed by MacElwee in collaboration with botany professor, John MacFarlane; writings on the woods of Brazil and other areas; lists of...
Dates:
1893-1899
Alexander Rider Sketch of Agama Vultuosa
Collection — Box: Small Collections 11
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0469
Scope and Contents
German artist, who worked in Philadelphia during the years mentioned. This original pencil sketch of Aguma vultuosa was published as plate XIX, in the Academy's Journal, v. IV, 1824-1825, to illustrate R. Harlan's paper, "Description of two new species of Agama."
Archived.
Dates:
1824
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
Alexander Wilson papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0052
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of biographical material from various sources, very little original material being owned by the Academy, which has only a few autographs on photos or in books, with an occasional letter.Signers of letters and documents: Allen, Elsa G. (7) 1948-52; Brooks, H. W., Jr. 1931; Cochran, Alex. 1943; Fraser, Joseph T., Jr. 1943; Huston, McCready (7) 1943-4; Marsh, Charles J. 1943; Paterson, A. B. (2) 1943-4; Phillips, Venia T. (6) 1948-52; Richardson,...
Dates:
1811-1943
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