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This collections contains materials relating to ANSP's Bicentennial Year, which was celebrated between March 2012 and March 2013. It also contains materials pertaining to events that happened during that year, but were not directly tied to the Bicentennial.

Scope and Contents Committee reports were preserved for 1938 and 1939 when Stephen Thomas was Secretary and H. T. Green acting Secretary. A few of the papers relate to museum habitat groups and display of minerals. Also included are photographs of exhibits of specimens and other materials created by the Academy on display at Gimbel's and Wanamaker's department stores.Records assembled with the inclusive dates of 1868-1940 which carry the names of W. S. W. Ruschenberger, E. J. Nolan, and Wharton...

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Through the generosity of Mary M. Trexler, the habitat group of the American Bison was erected in the Academy in 1934 in memory of her husband, General Harry C. Trexler. The specimens came from the famous herd on the Trexler game preserve near Allentown, Pennsylvania, the background being painted by C. Clarke Rosenkranz from sketches made in the Judith Basin Region, Montana. The group was designed by Harold T. Green and the formal opening held on Nov. 17, 1934.

Scope and Contents This exhibition sign was displayed for the Sze-Chwan Takin. Scientific name: budorcas tibetana milne-edwards. The exhibition sign reads: A rare animal of the almost inaccessible mountains of Western China. While cattle-like in appearance, it is a mountain antelope probably related to the Rocky Mountain Goat of Western North America. It lives at an altitude of 7,000 to 16,000 feet, mostly in the thick rhododendron forests. Group collected and presented by Brooke Dolan,II. The glass label is...

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This collection contains various files from the Exhibits Department dating from 1977-1985.

Overview The Orphan Photograph collection houses unrelated photographic prints, negatives, slides and other visual media created for or by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, dating from circa 1926 to 1985. The collection has an unknown custodial history; it appears to have been gathered together over time due to the random nature of the images and lack or loss of any connection between individual images and other larger collections. Researchers will find images of a variety...

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This collection contains two wall panels from the Academy exhibit, "Sex + Gluttony: Horseshoe Crabs" which was destroyed in 2012.