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Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Stationary Printing Block

 Item
Identifier: 2010.090.008.Artifact
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of single and group printing blocks and plates commissioned for use by the Academy of Natural Sciences. The plates and blocks range from animal figures, signature plates, letterhead, to special invitations. The printing blocks are made of wood with metal outlines fastened to the wood. There are solid metal printing plates and also metal roller printing plates. Each block or plate has a general note attached to it with more detail.

Dates: Circa 20th Century
Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / ANSP-2010-090-Artifact, Academy of Natural Sciences Printing Blocks and Plates

Travel Journals of Minturn Wright III, 1974-1997

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-018
Scope and Contents Photocopied typescript of Academy's former trustee Minturn Wright III's travelogues. The ANSP offered high-end educational travel "expeditions" in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mr. Wright participated in at least the nine excursions represented here, across South and Central America, Eastern Canada, Mongolia, and the Antarctic between 1974 and 1997. The Academy's Senior Fellow Robert M. Peck travelled with Wright on the excursion to Mongolia in 1997, and Antarctica, 1994. It is through Peck that...
Dates: 1974-1997
Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / Travel Journals of Minturn Wright III, 1974-1997

W. Stephen Thomas Printing Block, Circa 1900

 Item
Identifier: 2010.090.017.Artifact
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of single and group printing blocks and plates commissioned for use by the Academy of Natural Sciences. The plates and blocks range from animal figures, signature plates, letterhead, to special invitations. The printing blocks are made of wood with metal outlines fastened to the wood. There are solid metal printing plates and also metal roller printing plates. Each block or plate has a general note attached to it with more detail.

Dates: Circa 1900
Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / ANSP-2010-090-Artifact, Academy of Natural Sciences Printing Blocks and Plates / Signature Printing Plates

"Ward's Museum of Mineralogy, Geology and Zoology" Pamphlet

 Item
Identifier: ANSP-2012-060
Scope and Contents

Eight-page pamphlet found folded inside back cover of Academy Library's copy of "Catalogue of Casts of Fossils, from the Principal Museums of Europe and America, with Short Descriptions and Illustrations" by Henry A. Ward (1866), ANSP Call Number QE716.W25.



Dates: 1 June 1879
Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / "Ward's Museum of Mineralogy, Geology and Zoology" Pamphlet

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