Photographic prints
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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
Mabelle Campbell photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1002
Scope and Contents
The Mabelle Campbell photograph collection includes six photo albums, thirty-nine loose photos, two Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company Hiking Club Lists, and nine pamphlets from the Leidy Microscopical Club. The albums, photos, and papers document excursions of the Delaware Valley Naturalists Union from 1894-1939. According to a conversation with Mrs. Campbell in 1980, most of the photographs were taken by Harold Palmer
This collection is arranged chronologically.
Dates:
1894-1939; Majority of material found within 1911 - 1933
Orphan Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2010-025
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...
Dates:
1926-1985, undated
Portrait Collection
Collection — Box Oversize Small Collections 6
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0457
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of single and group portraits of scientists (professional and amatuer), many affiliated with the Academy. When known, Academy affiliation and scientific field of interest is noted (botany, entomology, geology, paleontology, zoology, ichthyology, ornithology, diatoms, etc.). Portraits show scientists in the field and at work as well as posed portraits. Thus far, the collection includes 1680 persons or groups. Formats include photographic prints, cartes de visite,...
Dates:
c. 1835-1983, undated
Wharton Huber Photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2010-101
Scope and Contents
70 linear inches of glass plate negatives, positives, and plastic film (could be nitrate?).
Dates:
1920s